Senior Category Data Analyst

Holland & Barrett International Limited; Nuneaton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and wellness retailer is looking for a Senior Category Analyst in Nuneaton. This hybrid role involves leading analytics for supplier performance, collaborating with commercial stakeholders, and developing dashboards. The ideal candidate should have strong SQL skills, commercial acumen, and experience in analytics within retail. Competitive benefits include a health cash plan, life assurance, and a generous colleague discount.

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

25% Colleague Discount with FREE Next Day Delivery

GBP50 Annual Product Allowance

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in analytics, preferably in commercial or retail environments.
• Deep understanding of category and trading levers.
• Ability to explain complex findings to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics delivery for supplier performance and commercial contribution.
• Partner with stakeholders to evaluate deal outcomes.
• Build dashboards to monitor supplier-level performance.

Skills

SQL expertise

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder leadership

Communication

Delivery ownership

Visualisation skills

Team contribution

Education

Degree in a quantitative field

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 Senior Category 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.
• Provide ecommerce insights and recommendations to stakeholders
• 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, 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
• GBP/???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.