Business Intelligence Developer

Job Introduction

We’re seeking a Business Intelligence Developer to help strengthen our BI capability and ensure the organisation has access to accurate, trusted and well‑governed reporting and insights solutions. 

In this role, you’ll work at the core of our data platform, supporting critical business cycles and contributing to the ongoing maturity of our BI, Data and Insights strategy.

Main Responsibility

• Ensure the integrity and governance of the WG&S Data Platform to deliver trusted reporting and insights solutions.
• Review and validate new reporting requirements, identifying risks, gaps and impacts on the existing data model.
• Apply strong knowledge of data‑modelling and platform concepts to ensure solutions are designed and maintained effectively.
• Develop and maintain documentation — including Report Design Specifications and testing templates — to support internal processes and continuous improvement.
• Deliver and maintain the BI platform to support key business cycles such as FX, LYA, 5YP, FYE and Budget.
• Support the promotion and deployment of new BI content through the development lifecycle.
• Ensure delivered solutions align with governance principles, business needs and service delivery standards.
• Contribute to improvements in process efficiency, performance and BI quality.
• Champion the BI strategy with business leaders, encouraging engagement and adoption.
• Share knowledge proactively, maintaining documentation and procedures to required standards.
• Provide end‑to‑end support for BI applications and Data products, ensuring service levels and system availability targets are met.

Our Ideal Candidate

You understand how data underpins effective decision‑making and take pride in creating reliable, well‑structured BI and insights solutions. You communicate clearly, collaborate well with stakeholders, and bring a practical, governance‑focused mindset to every task.

This role would suit:

• A BI Developer who wishes to migrate to a MS Fabric solution
• A Data Analyst or SQL specialist wanting to deepen their BI and modelling expertise.
• Someone confident handling complex datasets supporting financial and operational reporting cycles.
• An individual who values structure, documentation and strong development practices.
• A collaborator who can explain technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

If you’re motivated by building trusted BI, Data and Insights solutions and strengthening an organisation’s data capability, we’d love to hear from you.

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.