Senior Category Data Analyst
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We invite you to apply for the Senior Category Data Analyst role.
About the Company
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 focussed 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.
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.
* Provide ecommerce insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
* 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 46 years of experience in analyticspreferably 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!
Our Recruitment Process
* 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.
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).
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