Senior Commercial Analyst - Supplier Performance

About Data at Holland & Barrett

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 the Commercial Operations function with a focus on supplier performance, deal effectiveness, and commercial contribution. You'll partner closely with Supplier Terms, Category, Trading, and Commercial Ops teams to provide insights that strengthen supplier negotiations and improve the value derived from commercial agreements.

The Role

What You'll Do

• 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, with 2 per week expected in ourNuneaton office (CV10 7RH)

The Person

What We're Looking For 

• SQL expertise: Confident writing advanced queries to analyse large datasets across trading, rebate, and commercial metrics. 
• Supplier and commercial acumen: Strong understanding of supplier contribution, deal structures, and commercial KPIs. 
• Stakeholder leadership: Comfortable working with Heads of Commercial, Supplier Terms, and Trading to influence decisions. 
• Communication: Explains insights clearly, supports negotiations with data, and adapts outputs to commercial context. 
• Delivery ownership: Leads end-to-end projects independently, from scoping to delivery and follow-up. 
• Visualisation: Builds dashboards in Metabase or equivalent tools that support category and supplier teams. 
• Team contribution: Mentors others, shares best practices, and strengthens the team through collaboration. 
• Education & Experience: You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Economics, or Statistics, and 4–6 years of experience in analytics—preferably with exposure to supplier performance, commercial trading, or rebate analytics in a retail or FMCG environment. 

Benefits

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.