Commercial Analyst

Commercial Analyst
Working 2 days from our office in Newcastle City Centre and the rest from home
Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw) Monday to Friday
Salary circa £38,000 negotiable based on skills and experience and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
Are you a data and reporting professional, looking to join an organisation that truly cares? We have a brilliant job opportunity for a PowerBi and SQL expert to join our commercial reporting mission, where you’ll develop our analysis and insight to help the business make the right decisions!
Typical day as a Commercial Analyst
- Transforming a wide variety of complex data sources into clear and easy to digest reports and visual dashboards.
- Provide faster and improved customer and business reporting through continuous improvement.
- Engage with the right people across the business, to deliver the right results through collaboration and insights sharing.
- Using your commercial insights to support business wide projects, as well as offering commentary on performance, identifying trends, root causes and propose recommendations and solutions to problems.
- Using your relationships building and communication skills to talk to both technical and non-technical colleagues alike. Using your skills to help you to understand our business processes and translate these into the right requirements.
- Monitoring data quality, resolving anomalies, and identifying trends and relationships, that provide better reporting and drive improvements in business operations.
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!
You bring
- You’re a Microsoft Power BI and SQL guru, and it would be awesome if you know your way around Office 365 and have experience of Power Apps and Power Automate as well, but those aren’t deal breakers.
- A talent for designing and delivering easily understandable and accessible reporting tailored to the audience and your stakeholder’s objectives.
- An excellent understanding of relational databases, data structures and relationships, and a good understanding of data manipulation and modelling in line with the Kimball methodology.
- A proficiency in cleansing, transforming and enhancing data, structuring it to deliver high quality data models to support optimal reporting through Power BI as well as ad-hoc analysis.
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review.

Our team
You’ll join Keith and our wider Commercial reporting team, we’re super passionate about what we do! We’re really proud of the information, data and insights we provide that drives our business performance and decision making. We’re a close knit team and while we may be spread all over the country, we’re a supportive bunch and there for each other!
Job details
- We’re really flexible about where you are based. Half of us are based in the North East, but the other half across the county.
- We are in touch and collaborating throughout our working days, and get together face to face a few times a year.
- This as a full time role, but we are flexible about the detail of your working hours and open to agreeing a work pattern with you.
- You’ll manage your own diary, so if you need to nip out to walk the dog or do the school run, we’re ok with that!
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What’s in it for you?
- 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
- Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
- Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
- We’re Investors in People Platinum employer, a Great Place to Work and 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing”
- We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
- Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. Explore our full range of benefits on our website.
Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our Commercial Analyst Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Don’t delay or you might miss out, as sometimes we close a job early!  Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at [email protected]