Senior Commercial Data Analyst

HOLLAND AND BARRETT; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and wellness retailer in London is seeking a Senior Commercial Analyst to support strategic analytics for key categories. You will partner with stakeholders to deliver insights that drive pricing and promotional strategies while using a modern data stack. The ideal candidate has SQL expertise and extensive experience in analytics. This role offers competitive benefits and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Technology Incentive Scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Career progression

Pension company contribution

28 or 33 Days Holiday per year

Refer and Earn Scheme

Discounted Products

Free 24/7 Confidential Advice

Mental Health First Aiders

Colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in analytics in commercial, retail, or trading environments.
• Confident writing advanced SQL queries and optimising performance.
• Ability to explain complex findings clearly to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics delivery for supplier performance and commercial contribution.
• Build dashboards to monitor supplier-level performance.
• Deliver insights that support negotiations and performance reviews.

Skills

SQL expertise

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder leadership

Communication

Delivery ownership

Visualisation skills

Team contribution

Education

Degree in a quantitative field (Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering)

Tools

Metabase

Redshift

BigQuery

Matillion

Retool

Tableau

Looker

PowerBI

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 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

• 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 career development long term.
• 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.
• We all need a little help sometimes, so we offer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
• We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
• And many more!

Our Recruitment Process:

Our selection process is designed to be thorough, transparent, and aligned with the role. It includes:

• A short Coderbyte assessment to evaluate core technical and analytical skills
• Role-specific questions to understand your approach to relevant challenges
• An interview with the Hiring Manager to explore your experience and motivations
• A case study to demonstrate problem-solving and strategic thinking
• A follow-up review to delve deeper into your insights and approach
• Short conversations with team members to assess team fit and working style

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