Senior Insight Analyst

SF Recruitment; Wolverhampton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in Wolverhampton is seeking a Senior Insight Analyst to provide commercial and operational insight across various functions. The role involves analyzing pricing, customer profitability, and improving data literacy. The ideal candidate will have experience in FMCG environments, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in SQL, Power BI, and Excel. This position offers a hybrid work model with a salary range of £50,000 to £55,000.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in wholesale, distribution, FMCG, or product-driven environments with large SKU counts.
• Strong understanding of pricing, rebates, margin analysis, customer/SKU profitability, and product costing concepts.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL, Power BI, and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive commercial and operational insight across finance, sales, e-commerce, marketing, purchasing, and warehouse functions.
• Analyse pricing, rebates, margin performance, and price realisation.
• Lead core inventory and purchasing analytics.

Skills

Analytical skills

SQL

Power BI

Excel

Communication skills

Tools

Google Analytics

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Senior Insight Analyst

Location: Wolverhampton (Hybrid 3 days on-site)
Salary: £50,000 £55,000
Type: Permanent

Main Responsibilities

• Provide proactive commercial and operational insight across finance, sales, e-commerce, marketing, purchasing and warehouse functions.
• Analyse pricing, rebates, margin performance and price realisation, supporting commercial decisions and profitability improvement.
• Deliver customer and SKU-level profitability analysis, including cost-to-serve modelling and contribution margin insights.
• Lead core inventory and purchasing analytics such as ABC/XYZ, PPV, GMROI, stock health, and excess & obsolete stock trends.
• Support analysis across the full order-to-cash process.
• Conduct customer lifecycle, RFM and promotion effectiveness analysis to support commercial and marketing teams.
• Provide insight into web and e-commerce performance, including analysis using Google Analytics data.
• Work hands‑on with SQL, Power BI, Excel, and the Fabric data warehouse to extract, transform and visualise complex datasets.
• Translate technical findings into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Drive improvements in data literacy and commercial understanding across the business.

Candidate Requirements

• Proven experience in wholesale, distribution, FMCG, or product-driven environments with large SKU counts.
• Strong understanding of pricing, rebates, margin analysis, customer/SKU profitability, and product costing concepts.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL, Power BI, and Excel.
• Experience working with modern data warehouse platforms; familiarity with Microsoft Fabric is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of inventory analytics (ABC/XYZ, GMROI, PPV) and commercial insight generation.
• Experience with e-commerce or digital performance analytics, including Google Analytics, is beneficial.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner with non-technical stakeholders.
• Proactive, curious, and able to lead analytical projects with minimal supervision.

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please reach out and submit your application.