We are proud to be One Team at East Midlands Railway (EMR). We are passionate about keeping people safe, delighting our customers , doing the right thing and putting customers at the heart of our sustainable railway for the East Midlands. With over 2,600 employees, our people are the reason we are so successful and our Commercial team make a crucial contribution to this. Eight times accredited as a Top Employer and Gold accredited for Inclusive Employers Standards, we value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work.

At EMR we want to proactively embrace diversity across our workforce and recognise that we are under-represented in some areas. We’re therefore taking positive steps to promote a positive and inclusive culture and we welcome applications from everyone to help us better represent our communities.

We have an exciting opportunity to join #TeamEMR as a Commercial Data Engineer .  This role reports to the Head of Commercial Strategy and is based in our head office in Derby.

Aligning to the overarching data strategy across EMR, you will play a key role in helping to implement this strategy within the Commercial team and supporting the wider data community across the business. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is passionate about using the power of data to drive transformational change and make a measurable difference.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Work with colleagues across the Commercial team to identify challenges and opportunities and design data solutions to address them.
• Analyse current workflows to identify opportunities for automation, optimisation and value creation through improved use of data.
• Work closely with the EMR data team to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into the EMR Data Analytics Platform, ensuring data quality and integrity is always maintained.
• Develop and build sophisticated, insightful and user-friendly business intelligence dashboards.
• Develop and maintain a roadmap for improving the integration, visibility and interrogation of data in the Commercial team.
• Apply project management tools and techniques to coordinate and apply governance to the development roadmap, using agile delivery principles to deliver quick wins and continual incremental improvements.
• Champion and promote the value of data, analytics and business intelligence systems across the business, demonstrating clear benefits from outputs created.

Key Skills & Experience

As well as a competitive salary, we’ll also offer you :

EMR has a hybrid working policy which is applicable for this role. This means the role can be based at home 2-3 days per week and in the office 2-3 days per week. Should you wish to work full time in the office this is also an option.

We are open minded to applications from people who wish to have flexible working. Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.