Senior Analyst - Retail

Bestway Healthcare UK; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Holidays

Staff Discount

Travel Loans

Job summary

Bestway Healthcare UK, based in Manchester, is seeking a Senior Analyst - Retail to shape data-driven decisions across the business. The role focuses on building the insight capability and partnering with the retail team to drive measurable change.

You will translate complex data into actionable insight, develop dashboards, and influence senior stakeholders through clear narratives. This hybrid role requires strong BI, analytics, and commercial judgement in a fast-paced retail environment.

Qualifications

• Strong retail background with understanding of sales, margin, stock, promotions and store performance.
• Experience creating dashboards and insights for senior stakeholders using Power BI and Microsoft tools.
• Strong analytical and commercial capability to identify trends, risks, opportunities from multiple data sources.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior insight partner to retail stakeholders, translating questions into analyses.
• Lead development of dashboards, reports, and visualisations for timely, decision-ready insight.
• Use data to identify opportunities, shape recommendations, and influence actions to improve performance.
• Partner with senior leaders across retail, trading, operations, finance and marketing to align analytics with priorities.
• Define KPIs and performance measures to support trading decisions, reviews and planning.
• Gather data/insight requirements from stakeholders to maintain an always-on data partner.
• Prioritise insight opportunities and develop scalable data products turning data assets into impact.

Skills

Retail analytics

BI dashboards

Storytelling & influencing

SQL

Excel

Azure / Fabric / cloud data

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

SQL

Azure

Fabric

Job description

• Paid Holidays
• Staff Discount
• Travel Loans and more…..

Overview of the role

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.