Overview

Softcat Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company? Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team? Join our Product Management Team.

As our business grows and evolves it is essential, we have a set of reliable, scalable yet flexible systems that can drive us forward. The Product Management Team are responsible for the management of these key business applications. In support we work in conjunction with an ever-increasing number of Vendors, Partners and Softcat Stakeholders.

Your role

We are seeking a Data Business Analyst to support our new Data to Insight IT capability, in particular Master Data Management (MDM) and Product Information Management (PIM) processes, ensuring data integrity, optimisation, and strategic alignment across Softcat. This role will play a key part in mapping current data workflows, identifying inefficiencies, and driving improvements in data governance, structure, and usability.

As we refine our data strategy, this position will focus on ensuring high-quality, structured, and accessible product and business data to support seamless integration across platforms, enhanced analytics, and better decision-making. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, experience in data management, and a keen eye for data governance and best practices.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive, detail-oriented individual to help shape the future of our data ecosystem, ensuring data is an enabler for business growth and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in establishing and refining MDM frameworks, ensuring data consistency and usability across Softcat
• Contribute to the evaluation and selection of the right MDM and PIM tools, ensuring they align with business needs and support seamless integration across platforms
• Analyse existing data management workflows, identifying inefficiencies and areas for automation or improvement
• Support the establishment of standards for data integrity, validation, enrichment, and compliance, ensuring alignment with business needs and industry best practices
• Collaborate with IT, product, commercial, and operations teams to define data requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives
• Evaluate the business and customer impact of changes to data structures, ensuring data initiatives are effectively prioritised

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a Business Analyst or Data Analyst role with a focus on Master Data Management and/or PIM systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making
• Understanding of data structures, governance, and integration principles, with experience supporting data migration and transformation projects
• Experience in data mapping, modelling, and validation techniques
• Familiarity with API integrations and data exchange processes between PIM, ERP, ecommerce, and other enterprise platforms

Work style and flexible working

We understand that people work differently. In this role, we offer flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working
• Flexible hours – start and finish times
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, you will experience freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will be supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/

Here at Softcat, we don’t prohibit the use of AI in our application process. We encourage you to be authentic when submitting your application to showcase your true self.

Job details

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
• Industries: Computer Hardware Manufacturing, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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