Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace - our online-only platform connects private car sellers with thousands of verified dealers nationwide, ensuring everyone gets the best deal. Founded in 2017, our award-winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car. Motorway is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.
This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.
About the role
We are looking for a BI Data Analyst to join our Analytics team. You will take ownership of analytical projects end-to-end — from scoping business problems through to insight delivery — working closely with stakeholders across Marketing, Finance, Product, Commercial and Operations. You will build and maintain critical dashboards and reporting, surface trends and anomalies in business performance, and use data storytelling to drive measurable business outcomes. You will be expected to leverage AI tools strategically throughout your workflow — from LLM-assisted query generation and analysis summarisation to code review — accelerating delivery while maintaining rigorous standards. You will also provide critical support as the human-in-the-loop to ensure accuracy and repeatability of data analysis in other functions, empowering all our teams to make full use of AI-driven data self-serve
What will you do
Take business problems and independently structure them into well-defined analytical tasks
Own KPI monitoring and reporting for embedded stakeholder teams, ensuring data accuracy to build quality and confidence in your outputs
Root cause and explain in detail data discrepancies, finding solutions to stakeholder problems
Build Looker dashboards and Hex notebooks to support deep-dive analysis and stakeholder self-serve
Write production-quality SQL and Python, following team coding standards and passing peer review. Additionally assist others to review AI generated outputs.
Communicate insights and recommendations clearly — constructing narratives that drive action
Use AI tools to improve workflow (e.g. query generation, analysis drafts, documentation) while maintaining quality and accuracy
Work with Analytics Engineers to ingest new data sources into the stack as needed
We've got your back, in life's biggest moments and the everyday ones too.
Competitive salary
Equity scheme - we all share in Motorway's success
25 days holiday
Flexible working (2 days a week in our London office, with socials and snacks galore)
Private medical insurance via BUPA
Life assurance
Pension scheme (we contribute 5%)
Enhanced family leave (e.g. 26 weeks full pay for maternity or adoption)
24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
EV leasing scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
1 paid volunteering day a year
Skills Required
- End-to-end ownership of analytical projects
- Build and maintain Looker dashboards
- Create Hex notebooks for deep-dive analysis
- Write production-quality SQL
- Write production-quality Python
- Use AI tools and LLMs strategically (query generation, summaries, code review)
- KPI monitoring and ensuring data accuracy
- Root-cause data discrepancies and provide solutions
- Communicate insights and construct narratives that drive action
- Collaborate with Analytics Engineers to ingest new data sources
What We Do
Motorway started in 2017 with a vision to build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience. We're on a journey to make selling used cars better for everyone. With our network of more than 5,000 professional car dealers bidding directly on our platform, we enable customers to sell their car for a great price in as little as 24 hours. We support our car dealer partners to easily acquire the best used car stock. Whilst our customers can sell their car from the comfort of their own home. Since launch, we've helped people sell over 250 thousand cars and the journey's only just begun. This is the way to sell your car. This is the Motorway.
