Senior Analyst - Retail

Bestway Healthcare UK; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Bestway Healthcare UK is seeking a Senior Analyst - Retail to shape how data drives retail performance. You will be the analytics partner for the retail team, turning complex data into actionable insight to improve decisions at scale in a hybrid role based in Manchester.

The ideal candidate brings strong retail analytics, BI expertise (Power BI, Microsoft suite), and the ability to influence senior stakeholders through data-driven storytelling.

Qualifications

• Strong retail background with understanding of commercial drivers (sales, margin, stock, promotions).
• Experience creating dashboards and insight packs for senior stakeholders using Power BI and Microsoft tools.
• Strong analytical and commercial capability to identify trends, risks, opportunities from multiple data sources.
• Proficient in SQL, Excel and data handling in cloud environments such as Azure or Fabric.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior insight partner to key retail stakeholders, translating business questions into analysis that supports commercial decisions.
• Lead the development of dashboards, reports, and visualisations that provide clear, timely, decision-ready insight.
• Use data to identify opportunities, shape recommendations, and influence stakeholders to take action and improve performance.
• Partner with senior leaders across retail, trading, operations, finance, and marketing to align analytics to business priorities.
• Define meaningful KPIs and performance measures to support trading decisions, reviews, and planning.
• Gather and shape data and insight requirements from key stakeholders to ensure an always-on data and insight capability.

Skills

Retail analytics

BI reporting

SQL

Power BI

Excel

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Azure

Fabric

Microsoft Excel

Job description

BWHC is on a significant data and insight transformation journey, and this Senior Analyst - Retail role will play a critical part in shaping how we leverage data across the business. The successful candidate will help build the insight capability, mindset, and stakeholder confidence needed to use data more effectively and drive meaningful, measurable change at scale.

This is a senior commercial role at the centre of retail decision-making. Acting as an Insights and Analytics Business Partner to our retail team, you will turn complex data into clear, actionable insight that improves performance and supports strategic decision-making.

The role requires strong retail experience, excellent commercial judgement, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders through insight. You will combine analytical rigour, BI expertise, and a consultative approach to identify opportunities, challenge thinking, and drive change through data.

This role is hybrid and based in Manchester - we can only consider applicants who are commutable to Manchester City Centre.

Main Responsibilities

• Act as the senior insight partner to key retail stakeholders, translating business questions into analysis that supports commercial and operational decisions
• Lead the development of dashboards, reports, and visualisations that provide clear,timely, and decision-ready insight
• Use data toidentify opportunities, shape recommendations, and influence stakeholders totake actionand improve performance
• Partner with senior leaders across retail, trading, operations, finance, and marketing to align analytics to business priorities
• Define meaningful KPIs and performance measures that support trading decisions, business reviews, and strategic planning
• Gather and shape data and insight requirements from key retail stakeholders, ensuring the business has an always-on data and insight partner who proactively identifies opportunities, supports prioritisation, and helps drive change through data
• Prioritise key insight opportunities and develop scalable data products that turn BWHC's data assets into actionable insight, measurable value, and sustained business impact

The Ideal Candidate

• Strong retail background with a clear understanding of the commercial drivers behind sales, margin, stock, promotions, customer behaviour, and store performance
• Strong BI, reporting, and visualisation skills with experience creating clear dashboards and insight packs for senior stakeholders, ideally using Power BI and the wider Microsoft suite
• Strong analytical and commercial capability with the ability to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and root causes from multiple data sources
• Strong SQL, Excel, and data handling skills with confidence working across complex datasets, ad hoc business questions, and cloud-based data environments such as Azure, Fabric, or similar technologies
• Strong technical toolkit including Power BI, Microsoft tools, SQL, Azure, Fabric, or similar cloud technologies used to support scalable reporting, insight, and analytics delivery
• Excellent storytelling, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to translate analysis into clear narratives, recommendations, and action for a range of stakeholders
• Highly consultative business partnering style with experience working credibly with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced retail environment

Bestway Healthcare is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.