Data Analyst (AI and Automation)

What You’ll Be Doing

• Use AI tools and automation techniques to extract product data from supplier and third-party sources
• Build scalable solutions to map and transform data across internal RS Group product data models and external supplier datasets across three global regions
• Leverage AI and computer vision to validate product data accuracy, consistency, and completeness
• Work closely with Digital Merchandising teams to understand customer challenges and develop data-driven solutions
• Partner with data analysts to design frameworks that measure content quality and link it to commercial performance
• Identify opportunities to simplify, streamline, and automate existing Content and Digital Merchandising processes
• Collaborate with Product and Supply Chain Data Governance teams to standardise and normalise product attribution at scale
• Analyse customer behaviour to identify key decision-making data points and develop AI-driven agents to detect missing, inaccurate, or misleading information

About you

You are a digital and data professional with over five years’ experience across digital merchandising, content optimisation, and ecommerce performance. You specialise in leveraging data, automation, and AI-driven solutions to improve product data quality, streamline processes, and enhance customer experience across global B2B and B2C environments.

What you’ll need

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, Snowflake, and JavaScript
• Experience building AI agents or automation solutions (Microsoft Copilot stack experience desirable)
• Experience working with Product Information Management (PIM) systems such as Stibo STEP and Syndigo Riversand
• Strong understanding of ecommerce ecosystems across both B2B and B2C environments
• Good knowledge of digital merchandising KPIs, levers, and optimisation techniques
• Understanding of marketing channels and how they influence customer behaviour and commercial outcomes
• Strong communication skills with experience presenting technical solutions and building stakeholder alignment
• Proactive in identifying opportunities to improve UX and CX through data and insight

Behavioural Skills

• Proven track record of delivering results and taking ownership of outcomes
• Strong customer-first mindset in all aspects of work
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior leaders and cross-functional teams
• Strong relationship-building skills with internal teams, suppliers, and external partners
• Self-starter with the ability to prioritise and manage workload independently in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable making decisions with limited information while maintaining a structured approach
• Strong change management capability and experience driving adoption of new ways of working
• Ability to influence across the organisation to support a digital-first and data-driven mindset

The extras you’ll get

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including: help for people to take control of ongoing health conditions, support for neurodiverse colleagues and families, support for women at different life stages, helping our LGBTQ+ community, additions to fertility coverage.

We are RS

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years. Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world. We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.