Senior Commercial Data Analyst(36333)

August 9, 2025

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Full Time

Nuneaton

Competitive

August 9, 2025

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Job description

<div class="earcuposdescription"><div class="earcuposdescriptiontitle">About Data at Holland & Barrett</div><div class="earcuposdescriptionnote">At Holland & Barrett (H&B), we want to empower everyone to live healthier, happier lives. With over 150 years of experience, we're the largest health & wellness retailer in Europe and a globally trusted brand. Our ambition is to become the world's most trusted wellness partner, chosen by over 100 million people worldwide.    Our Analytics organisation is structured into five verticals: four embedded analytics areas aligned to key business functions, and a central Business Intelligence team focused on cross-functional reporting and performance enablement. Together with our Data Engineering and Data Science colleagues, we make data a strategic lever to achieve H&B's goals.    As a Senior Commercial Analyst in the Core Business Analytics team, you'll support one of our flagship categories: VHMS, Food & Sports, or Beauty. You'll act as a strategic analytics partner to stakeholders across Commercial, Trading, Category, and Digital, delivering insights that influence pricing, promotions, product performance, and customer value. </div></div><div class="earcuposdescription"><div class="earcuposdescriptiontitle">The Role</div><div class="earcuposdescriptionnote">Key Responsibilities <ul><li>Lead analytics delivery for supplier performance, commercial contribution, and terms agreement tracking. </li><li>Partner with Supplier Terms, Category, and Commercial stakeholders to evaluate deal outcomes and supplier impact. </li><li>Build dashboards in Metabase to monitor supplier-level performance, agreement effectiveness, and compliance. </li><li>Create analytics which demonstrate commercial optimisation opportunities & targets. </li><li>Write clean, efficient SQL to analyse data across trading, rebate, promotional, and category-level metrics. </li><li>Deliver insights that support negotiations, supplier scorecards, and performance reviews. </li><li>Own analysis of agreement value, rebate accuracy, and deal profitability. </li><li>Contribute to development of tools that track supplier performance over time and model commercial scenarios. </li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with BI Developers, Embedded Analysts, and Supplier Performance teams to deliver end-to-end data products. </li><li>Mentor mid-level analysts and help strengthen capability across the Commercial Ops analytics team. </li><li>Work with a modern data stack, including Redshift, BigQuery, Matillion, and Retool. </li></ul>Location: This is a hybrid role based in Nuneaton, with the requirement to be in the office at least two days per week. </div></div><div class="earcuposdescription"><div class="earcuposdescriptiontitle">The Person</div><div class="earcuposdescriptionnote">What We're Looking For <ul><li>SQL expertise: Confident writing advanced queries, transforming complex data, and optimising performance. </li><li>Commercial acumen: Deep understanding of category and trading levers such as margin, pricing, and promotional ROI. </li><li>Stakeholder leadership: Comfortable working with Heads of and Directors in Commercial, Trading, and Category teams. </li><li>Communication: Explains complex findings clearly to non-technical audiences and adapts insight to the business context. </li><li>Delivery ownership: Independently leads high-impact projects from discovery through to implementation. </li><li>Visualisation skills: Designs clean, usable dashboards in Metabase (or experience with equivalent tools like Tableau, Looker, PowerBI). </li><li>Team contribution: Mentors others, shares knowledge, and strengthens team delivery through feedback and collaboration. </li><li>Education & Experience: You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Engineering, and 4–6 years of experience in analytics—preferably with exposure to commercial, retail, or trading environments. </li></ul></div></div><div class="earcuposdescription"><div class="earcuposdescriptiontitle">Benefits</div><div class="earcuposdescriptionnote">Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits <ul><li>Health Cash Plan  </li><li>Life Assurance </li><li>Incentive Scheme</li><li>Virtual GP </li><li>Private Medical</li><li>FREE at-home blood test kit </li><li>Holiday Purchase option </li><li>Pension Contribution </li><li>Access to ‘Wellhub' with gyms, studios and wellbeing apps </li></ul>Discounts & Savings <ul><li>25% Colleague Discount with FREE Next Day Delivery </li><li>Exclusive Discounts from a wide range of partners </li><li>£/€50 Annual Product Allowance to spend in store </li></ul>Learning & Development <ul><li>Access to a variety of learning opportunities, including Level 2-5 Apprenticeships, Workshops and our Digital Learning Library </li><li>AND MORE! </li></ul>We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B. Holland & Barrett does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Please do not forward resumes to our job alias, employees, or any other company location. Holland & Barrett is not and will not be responsible for any fees if a candidate submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless otherwise agreed with respect to specific open position(s).  </div></div><div class="earcuposdescription"><div class="earcuposdescriptiontitle">Our Recruitment Process:</div><div class="earcu_posdescriptionnote">Our selection process is designed to be thorough, transparent, and aligned with the role. It includes:<ul data-start="246" data-end="733"><li data-start="246" data-end="331">A short Coderbyte assessment to evaluate core technical and analytical skills</li><li data-start="332" data-end="414">Role-specific questions to understand your approach to relevant challenges</li><li data-start="415" data-end="502">An interview with the Hiring Manager to explore your experience and motivations</li><li data-start="503" data-end="577">A case study to demonstrate problem-solving and strategic thinking</li><li data-start="578" data-end="652">A follow-up review to delve deeper into your insights and approach</li><li data-start="653" data-end="733">Short conversations with team members to assess team fit and working style</li></ul> #LI-Hybrid #LI-CM </div></div>

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