Senior Commercial Data Analyst

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 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. 

The Role

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 or London, with the requirement to be in the office at least two days per week. 

The Person

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. 

Benefits

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. 

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