Senior Commercial Data Analyst

HOLLAND AND BARRETT; Nuneaton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and wellness retailer is seeking a Senior Commercial Analyst to join their team in Nuneaton. In this hybrid role, you'll leverage your SQL expertise to lead analytics on supplier performance and commercial contributions, work closely with stakeholders, and build analytical dashboards. The ideal candidate has 4-6 years of analytics experience in a relevant sector and excels in communication and leadership.

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'

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in analytics, preferably in commercial, retail, or trading environments.
• Experience in independent project leadership and complex data analysis.

Responsibilities

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

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

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, 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
• £/€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.

Holland & Barrett does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Please do not forward resumes to our job alias, employees, or any other company location. Holland & Barrett is not and will not be responsible for any fees if a candidate submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless otherwise agreed with respect to specific open position(s).

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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