Commercial Stock Analyst - Exit Management

Holland & Barrett International Limited; England; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A health & wellness retailer is seeking a Commercial Analyst to support commercial operations related to stock clearance performance. This hybrid position requires SQL proficiency and a degree in a quantitative field. The successful candidate will partner with various functions, build dashboards, and evaluate pricing strategies. The role offers opportunities for career progression and attractive benefits including bonuses, discounts, and wellbeing initiatives.

Benefits

Technology Incentive Scheme

Learning and Development opportunities

Career progression

Pension company contribution

28 or 33 Days Holiday

Refer and Earn Scheme

Discounted Products

Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare

Mental Health First Aiders

Reward and Recognition Schemes

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in analytics with exposure to commercial operations, pricing or inventory analytics.
• Ability to explain performance trends to commercial and supply chain stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Trading, Supply Chain and Commercial Ops to address stock exit challenges.
• Build dashboards in Metabase to track exit performance and markdown effectiveness.
• Write SQL queries to analyze product and store clearance outcomes.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Commercial awareness

Communication

Delivery ownership

Visualisation skills

Collaborative mindset

Education

Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or Engineering

Tools

Metabase

Redshift

BigQuery

Matillion

Retool

Job description

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 Commercial Analyst in the Core Business Analytics team you will support the Commercial Operations function with a focus on stock exit and clearance performance. You’ll partner with stakeholders across Trading, Commercial, Pricing and Supply Chain to deliver insights that improve exit planning, reduce aged stock and optimise margin recovery on markdown and end-of-line activity.

The Role

What You'll Do

• Partner with Trading, Supply Chain and Commercial Ops to identify stock exit challenges and help shape smarter clearance decisions.
• Build dashboards in Metabase that track exit performance, markdown effectiveness and aged stock risk.
• Write SQL to analyse product, store and channel‑level clearance outcomes.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of pricing levers, discounting mechanics and exit channel strategies.
• Provide visibility into exit performance against forecast, target and historic benchmarks.
• Run deep dives into underperforming SKUs, range transitions and residual inventory impact.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with BI Developers, Embedded Analysts and Pricing & Promotions teams to deliver data products.
• Contribute to sprint planning and backlog shaping as part of the Commercial Ops analytics roadmap.
• Work with a modern data stack, including Redshift, BigQuery, Matillion and Retool.

Location

This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week expected in either our Nuneaton office (CV10 7RH).

The Person

What We're Looking For

• SQL proficiency: Comfortable querying, joining and transforming data to analyse stock, sales and markdown performance.
• Commercial awareness: Understands pricing, lifecycle and margin trade‑offs related to stock clearance and end‑of‑line management.
• Communication: Able to clearly explain trade‑offs and performance trends to commercial and supply chain stakeholders.
• Delivery ownership: Manages own tasks within agile delivery, balancing speed and accuracy.
• Visualisation skills: Builds usable dashboards in Metabase that support operational planning.
• Collaborative mindset: Works well across Commercial, Supply and Pricing functions.
• Education & Experience: You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or Engineering, and 2–3 years of experience in analytics‑preferably with exposure to commercial operations, pricing or inventory analytics.

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 long‑term career development.

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.

Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare

Mental Health First Aiders – we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because it's all about your health & wellbeing.

Reward and Recognition Schemes – your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.

And many more!