Data Analyst - EU Pay Transparency Directive

About the Role

We’re looking for a highly analytical and detail driven Data Analyst to take on a key regional role supporting our compliance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive (EUPTD). Acting as the Regional Pay Transparency Analytics Lead, you will oversee pay gap analytics, drive data consistency, and provide valuable insights to senior leadership across Europe.

This 18-month FTC is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal part in shaping DS Smith’s pay transparency strategy, strengthening our data governance practices, and supporting countries as they implement the new legislation.

You will coordinate and oversee regional pay gap analytics using a reporting tool, ensuring accuracy, comparability, and compliance across the region. As a subject matter expert in pay transparency analytics, you will guide local HR teams, uphold high analytical standards, and provide leadership with clear, data driven insights

Key Responsibilities: (included but not limited)

Analytics & Reporting

• Lead regional pay gap analysis using a dedicated tool.

• Consolidate and validate country data to ensure accuracy.

• Produce regional dashboards, reports, and insights for senior leaders.

• Present complex data in clear, actionable formats.

Data Governance & Quality

• Maintain consistent data definitions, methodologies, and standards.

• Develop data templates and maintain documentation.

• Monitor data submissions for quality and completeness.

• Serve as the regional expert for data and methodology queries.

• Ensure use of gender neutral, objective criteria.

• Escalate key issues to the Central EUPTD Project Team.

External Vendor Platform Management

• Act as regional contact for the external reporting tool provider.

• Coordinate tool testing, troubleshooting, and enhancements.

• Manage user roles, permissions, and security access.

• Support change management linked to analytics processes.

Regional Enablement & Stakeholder Support

• Provide guidance to local HR teams.

• Support countries in interpreting data and statistical outputs.

• Serve as the regional knowledge hub for pay transparency analytics.

Documentation

• Maintain documentation on security roles, templates, training, and system updates.

About You

We are looking for someone who is highly analytical, detail‑driven, and confident working with data to produce clear, meaningful insights. You’ll be organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities while building strong relationships across the business. You’ll be comfortable influencing others, working independently, and collaborating across teams, with strong technical capability in Excel and Power BI.

Key Skills & Qualifications

Core Competencies & Attributes

• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail

• Experience using Excel, Power BI and data consolidation tools

• Knowledge of statistical methods

• Confident and proactive problem‑solver

• Strong planning and organisational capability

• Able to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines

• Clear communicator with strong stakeholder management skills

• Able to influence without formal authority

• Comfortable working both autonomously and collaboratively

Desirable Experience & Qualifications

• Experience in analytics or reporting roles

• Familiarity with HR systems (advantageous)

• Experience managing third‑party suppliers or platforms (advantageous)

• Experience conducting audit checks (advantageous)

Location: London / Poland

About us

We’re DS Smith, the company who are redefining packaging for a changing world.  We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. Today, we operate in more than 30 different countries, supporting customers across sectors like FMCG, industrial, and e-commerce. We deliver on quality, service, innovation, and added value to deliver market-leading sustainable packaging solutions our customers need. Our industry needs to transform, and we’re building the team to drive change across Europe and North America

To fulfil our purpose of redefining packaging for a changing world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. 

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.

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