Innovation Analyst

The Role

At Imperial Brands, innovation, collaboration, and excellence are more than just values- they’re the driving force behind everything we do. We’re on the lookout for a curious, detail-oriented, and forward-thinking Innovation Analyst to join our Innovation Digital Transformation team in Liverpool —a vibrant part of our global network of over 25,000 passionate professionals.

In this exciting role, you’ll be instrumental in delivering our Innovation Data Strategy programme, a key pillar of our Next generation Product (NGP) 2030 Strategy. You’ll work alongside a high-performing team to develop cutting-edge digital capabilities, enabling smarter, data-driven decisions, and help bring digital transformation to life across our Innovation and Group Science Regulatory Affairs (GSRA) functions.

This is your chance to make a tangible impact on the future of a global organisation that’s redefining what’s possible.

Principle Accountabilities

• Drive Innovation Use Cases: Support the Data Strategy Core team in shaping and prioritising high-impact digital use cases—from idea to adoption—across the Innovation function.
• Translate Business Needs: Collaborate with Data Champions to identify pain points, define business requirements, and build compelling value cases for digital initiatives.
• Champion Adoption & Change: Take ownership of deployed tools and dashboards, ensuring successful rollout, user adoption, and ongoing change management.
• Lead Data Excellence: Improve data quality and management practices, driving continuous improvement and best-practice adoption across Innovation.
• Enable Cross-Functional Impact: Document and align best practices across teams, ensuring consistent delivery and scaling of successful digital solutions.
• Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with Innovation leaders to embed data-driven thinking and digital capabilities throughout the organisation.

Skills and Experience Required

• Lead with Agility: Bring your expertise in Agile, Stage Gate, and digital delivery frameworks to help shape and drive impactful innovation projects.
• Turn Data into Action: Use your sharp analytical skills to uncover insights, craft compelling narratives, and fuel continuous improvement across the business.
• Think Strategically: Confidently build and evaluate business cases, estimate value, and track real-world impact to influence key decisions.
• Fluent in Digital Tools: Leverage your comfort with platforms like Microsoft Office and other digital tools to streamline collaboration and delivery.
• Inspire and Influence: Communicate with clarity and confidence, engaging stakeholders across all levels and functions—locally and globally.
• Collaborate with Impact: Thrive in international teams, build strong relationships, and bring a structured, proactive approach to everything you do.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.

Everyone Belongs