Senior Commercial Data Analyst

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.

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.

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.
  
  

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 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