Supply Chain Analyst - Demand Planning (36364)

August 6, 2025

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Full Time

London

Competitive

August 6, 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 Supply Chain Analyst in the Core Business Analytics team, you'll partner with stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Commercial, and DC Operations to deliver insights that improve availability, efficiency, and inventory quality. Whether your focus is demand forecasting, network optimisation, or stock accuracy, you'll play a key role in using data to improve planning and execution across our end-to-end supply chain.</div></div><div class="earcuposdescription"><div class="earcuposdescriptiontitle">The Role</div><div class="earcuposdescriptionnote">What You'll Do <ul><li>Use data to solve challenges in demand planning, fulfilment, and stock optimisation across Supply Chain and Logistics.</li><li>Build dashboards in Metabase to track demand, inventory levels, DC throughput, and network efficiency.</li><li>Write robust SQL to extract and transform data from operational, forecasting, and inventory sources.</li><li>Deliver ad-hoc analysis on forecast accuracy, inbound flow, and stock availability to support supply decisions.</li><li>Collaborate across Supply Chain, BI, and Commercial teams to create scalable data products.</li><li>Contribute to sprint planning and backlog prioritisation within the Supply Chain analytics roadmap.</li></ul>Location: This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week expected in either our London or Nuneaton office.</div></div><div class="earcuposdescription"><div class="earcuposdescriptiontitle">The Person</div><div class="earcuposdescriptionnote"><ul><li>SQL proficiency: Comfortable querying, joining, and transforming large datasets from operations, inventory, and supply planning sources. </li><li>Supply chain awareness: Familiar with concepts like demand forecasting, DC operations, inbound flow, stock availability, and network planning. </li><li>Communication: Able to translate operational data into insight that's usable by planners, logistics, and commercial teams. </li><li>Delivery ownership: Manages projects or tasks reliably through agile delivery cycles. </li><li>Visualisation skills: Designs clean, usable dashboards in Metabase (or experience with equivalent tools like Tableau, Looker, PowerBI). </li><li>Collaborative mindset: Works well in cross-functional environments and contributes to team delivery. </li><li>Education & Experience: You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or Supply Chain, and 2–4 years of experience in a data or analytics role—preferably in supply chain, retail operations, or forecasting. </li></ul></div></div><div class="earcuposdescription"><div class="earcuposdescriptiontitle">Benefits</div><div class="earcuposdescriptionnote">💸 Technology Incentive Scheme - we offer different bonus schemes for all grades in Technology, starting at 10%.📚 Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.🤝 Career progression 🔝 Pension company contribution ✈️ Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 28 or 33 Days Holiday per year. 💷 Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.👜 Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.💰 Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy. 🙋🏽 We all need a little help sometimes, so we offer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.🧠 Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.👑 We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.👏 And many more!</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-CM1 </div></div>

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