Apprentice Data Analyst

Cheshire College - South & West
Manchester
2 days ago
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Overview

A methodical approach and strong attention to detail are needed for this Data Analysis apprenticeship with a travel tech giant with offices all over the globe. There’s a £1,000 bonus on offer too, following successful completion of year one of the apprenticeship programme.

The first year of your apprenticeship you’ll be paid £20,000 rising to national minimum wage until completion of apprenticeship. Incentive bonus in addition to your salary on completion of 1st year of your apprenticeship.

Training course Data analyst (level 4)

Hours Monday - Friday, flexible between 08:00 - 20:00, to be agreed with line manager. 37 hours 30 minutes a week

Duration: 2 years

Start date: Monday 7 September 2026

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you\'ll do at work

A highly passionate bunch, our data, analytics and AI team bring our unique software solutions to life. Our mission is to empower our customers and internal stakeholders to improve business performance and minimise risk by providing them with clean, reliable data and analytical models. We are with them to help make informed decisions, deliver a personalised service and automate their workloads. So, in this role you might be building data pipelines, modelling data, developing predictive models or automations for repeatable tasks or creation of data products.

You might be working with stakeholders to understand their intelligence needs, designing and creating report visualisations or creating a new ML model for a key business driver. You could also be working with the software and infrastructure teams to optimise performance and scalability of our systems.

Whatever you\'re working on, you\'ll be using software development best practice and the latest tools and processes from the Microsoft Azure stack.

What the role involves:

  • Identifying data sources to meet the organisation\'s requirement, using evidence-based decision making to establish a rationale for inclusion and exclusion of various data sets and models
  • Liaising with the client and/or colleagues from other areas of the organisation to establish reporting needs and deliver accurate information
  • Collecting, compiling and, if needed, cleansing data, such as sales figures, Digital Twins etc. solving any problems that arise, to/from a range of internal and external systems
  • Creating performance dashboards and reports in the Visualisation and Model Building phase
  • Supporting the business by maintaining and developing reports for analysis to aid with decisions, and adhering to organisational policy/legislation
  • Producing a range of standard and non-standard statistical and data analysis reports in the Model Building phase
  • Identify, analyse, and interpret trends or patterns in data sets · Drawing conclusions/recommend appropriate responses/offer guidance/ interpretation
  • Summarise and present the results of data analysis to a range of stakeholders, making recommendations
  • Provide regular reports & analysis to different management/leadership teams, ensuring data is used and represented ethically in line with relevant legislation (e.g. GDPR, which incorporates Privacy by Design)
  • Ensure data is appropriately stored and archived, in line with relevant legislation
  • Practise continuous self-learning to keep up to date with technology developments to enhance relevant skills and take responsibility for their own professional development
Where you\'ll work

World House
Lloyd Drive
Ellesmere Port
CH65 9HQ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

  • Use data systems securely to meet requirements and in line with organisational procedures and legislation including principles of Privacy by Design
  • implement the stages of the data analysis lifecycle
  • apply principles of data classification within data analysis activity
  • analyse data sets taking account of different data structures and database designs
  • assess the impact on user experience and domain context on data analysis activity
  • identify and escalate quality risks in data analysis with suggested mitigation or resolutions as appropriate
  • undertake customer requirements analysis and implement findings in data analytics planning and outputs
  • identify data sources and the risks and challenges to combination within data analysis activity
  • apply organizational architecture requirements to data analysis activities
  • apply statistical methodologies to data analysis tasks
  • apply predictive analytics in the collation and use of data
  • collaborate and communicate with a range of internal and external stakeholders using appropriate styles and behaviours to suit the audience
  • use a range of analytical techniques such as data mining, time series forecasting and modelling techniques to identify and predict trends and patterns in data
  • collate and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and convert into infographics, reports, tables, dashboards and graphs
  • select and apply the most appropriate data tools to achieve the optimum outcome
  • The candidate will follow a Level 4 apprenticeship programme and study towards a full standard as a Data Analyst. This training will be structured and delivered by Cheshire College – South & West
  • If you do not already hold GCSEs at grade A-C / 8-4 in English and maths you may be required to complete Functional Skills in the related subjects to attain Level 2 Functional Skills
Requirements

GCSE in:

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills
  • Analytical skills
About this employer

As renowned travel industry heavyweights (if we do say so ourselves), the Travel Innovation Group offers a wealth of unique services via our three companies: Lime, Aviate and Calrom. So, what exactly do we do? We began with our bespoke tech which provides market-leading flight booking systems for the world's leading airlines to the travel trade. Our service is legendary in the industry (for all the right reasons) and thanks to this foundation, our growth continues to sky-rocket with new, exciting products launching regularly, from cruise packages to luxury hotel booking services. What can we say – we\’ve always been innovators at heart! While we now have offices, people and partners across the globe, we\’re looking for exceptional talent to join us, succeed with us and grow with us at Calrom, Manchester/Ellesmere Port our company developing specialised B2B advanced pricing, booking management and ticketing engines for the airline sector.

  • Hybrid working options to be discussed with line manager (role dependant)
  • On-site gym and bar
After this apprenticeship
  • A full-time role is potentially available on successful completion of apprenticeship

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH AND WEST

The reference code for this apprenticeship isVAC2000020031.

Apply now

Closes in 22 days (Monday 6 April 2026 at 11:59pm)


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