Insight & Analytics Graduate Scheme Syston 2025

Our grads feel at home with ‘out of your comfort zone'.

At Dunelm, we are market leaders, we evolve with change and embrace innovation and individuality. Develop the growth mindset you need to make bolder business decisions and stretch your career.

Be comfortable thinking big

The Insight & Analytics (I&A) team is key to driving business decision making through understanding customer behavior and business performance, and help to optimize across the website, store portfolio and supply chain. We pull together data and insight from all areas of the business, gaining and sharing a deep knowledge of what makes Dunelm successful, and highlighting opportunities to drive future growth.

Dunelm is committed to becoming a fully inclusive business that is representative of our customers and locations. We recognise the value in diversity and welcome applications from all candidates regardless of sex, age, race, religion, ability, gender or sexual identity, socio-economic background or education. We are committed to making Dunelm a place where everyone can enjoy a successful career and have systems in place to support all our colleagues. We are seeking applications from candidates who share our values and celebrate diversity in all its forms.

What you'll be doing

During the scheme you’ll have the opportunity to develop your analytical and statistical skillset, learn how to use data to influence business decisions, and develop a base of knowledge across in-store and online retail. You’ll be partnering with and learning from our talented Analytics and Data teams, as well as retail experts from across our business. 

• Day-to-day you’ll be utilizing, learning and developing your analytical and data wrangling skills, working with various functional teams and the wider I&A community to help analyze data to create insights to inform decision making and business strategy.
• You’ll work closely with the business to understand needs and deliver solutions that generate and automate insights from our data. 
• You’ll partner with the Data Product and Engineering teams, assisting them in defining data products needed to enable insight.
• You’ll be supported by an experienced Lead to begin with, but will develop towards independently managing your own projects and solutions.
• Your role will involve developing and maintaining data solutions, enabling positive change across the business. We work with big data solutions and visualization platforms such as Snowflake, GCP, AWS and PowerBI. 

Over the course of two years, you’ll complete four placements across the I&A team, including spending time in: 

• Customer Analytics – understanding who our customers are, how they shop with us and our competitors, uncovering opportunities to improve their shopping experience on our website, and ensuring our marketing is relevant and cost effective. 
• Trading Analytics – partnering with the Commercial, stores and supply chain to understand the sales performance of our products and inform future strategy, and inform and measure the impact of initiatives to improve the performance of our 180+ stores and warehouses.

What happens once your Graduate scheme finishes?

You’ll have worked across multiple areas on the Graduate scheme so you will certainly have had exposure within your function. On completing the scheme you’ll be well positioned to apply for a permanent position with us. We’ll work with you to discuss your preferences and whether it’s a functional role in one of your project areas, a Product Owner or Business Analyst - there are no limits.

Start your career somewhere you’ll be listened to. Somewhere you can learn new skills and gain new responsibilities from day one. Somewhere you’ll feel valued and supported – where everyone works together and is there for each other when it matters. Somewhere that feels like home.

What we'll look for in you

• Creative and curious with the ability to interrogate data to understand drivers of trends
• Collaboration, listening to new ideas and voicing your own, to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and colleagues
• Adaptability and proactive working in a fast-paced environment
• You love to learn, you have a passion for problem solving, an inquisitive mindset and strong critical thinking skills
• A degree in Maths, Stats, Economics, Computer Science, Physics or a related field

Please note: We will evaluate any applicants who do not have all the relevant qualifications.

Accessibility allows everyone to have an equal chance when applying and showing off their potential. It also helps us create a more inclusive and diverse team, which brings fresh ideas and perspectives.

Should you need it, we have an accessibility tool available on our careers site to support you when you’re completing your application. If you require any other reasonable adjustments during the application and assessment process, you can reach out to our team via earlycareers@dunelm.com

Please note - Due to the number of applications, we receive, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible!