Senior Commercial Data Analyst
Overview
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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.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead analytics delivery for supplier performance, commercial contribution, and terms agreement tracking.
- Partner with Supplier Terms, Category, and Commercial stakeholders to evaluate deal outcomes and supplier impact.
- Build dashboards in Metabase to monitor supplier-level performance, agreement effectiveness, and compliance.
- Create analytics which demonstrate commercial optimisation opportunities & targets.
- Write clean, efficient SQL to analyse data across trading, rebate, promotional, and category-level metrics.
- Deliver insights that support negotiations, supplier scorecards, and performance reviews.
- Own analysis of agreement value, rebate accuracy, and deal profitability.
- Contribute to development of tools that track supplier performance over time and model commercial scenarios.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with BI Developers, Embedded Analysts, and Supplier Performance teams to deliver end-to-end data products.
- Mentor mid-level analysts and help strengthen capability across the Commercial Ops analytics team.
- Work with a modern data stack, including Redshift, BigQuery, Matillion, and Retool.
Location
This is a hybrid role based in Nuneaton, with the requirement to be in the office at least two days per week.
What We\'re Looking For
- SQL expertise: Confident writing advanced queries, transforming complex data, and optimising performance.
- Commercial acumen: Deep understanding of category and trading levers such as margin, pricing, and promotional ROI.
- Stakeholder leadership: Comfortable working with Heads of and Directors in Commercial, Trading, and Category teams.
- Communication: Explains complex findings clearly to non-technical audiences and adapts insight to the business context.
- Delivery ownership: Independently leads high-impact projects from discovery through to implementation.
- Visualisation skills: Designs clean, usable dashboards in Metabase (or experience with equivalent tools like Tableau, Looker, PowerBI).
- Team contribution: Mentors others, shares knowledge, and strengthens team delivery through feedback and collaboration.
- 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.
Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits
- Health Cash Plan
- Life Assurance
- Incentive Scheme
- Virtual GP
- Private Medical
- FREE at-home blood test kit
- Holiday Purchase option
- Pension Contribution
- Access to ‘Wellhub\' with gyms, studios and wellbeing apps
Discounts & Savings
- 25% Colleague Discount with FREE Next Day Delivery
- Exclusive Discounts from a wide range of partners
- £/€50 Annual Product Allowance to spend in store
Learning & Development
- Access to a variety of learning opportunities, including Level 2-5 Apprenticeships, Workshops and our Digital Learning Library
- AND MORE!
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).
Selection process
- A short Coderbyte assessment to evaluate core technical and analytical skills
- Role-specific questions to understand your approach to relevant challenges
- An interview with the Hiring Manager to explore your experience and motivations
- A case study to demonstrate problem-solving and strategic thinking
- A follow-up review to delve deeper into your insights and approach
- Short conversations with team members to assess team fit and working style
Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Information Technology
Industries
- Wellness and Fitness Services
