About the role
* Expected salary – Salary up to £80,000 depending on experience.
* Contract type – We have multiple positions available on a fixed term contract basis, ranging from 12 - 18 months.
* Working pattern/flexible working – The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The team complete 3 days per week in the office to connect.
* Location – Bracknell Head Office
* Interviews – Interviews are expected to take place w/c 18th May
Key responsibilities
* Identify and deliver pricing and promotional opportunities that improve sales, margin, competitiveness, and customer value perception across defined categories or commercial areas.
* Monitor competitor pricing, promotional activity, and market trends to recommend commercially effective pricing actions and protect market position.
* Use analytical modelling, including elasticity, pricing architecture, and performance analysis, to support data‑led commercial decision making and optimise profitability.
* Translate complex commercial and customer data into clear, concise recommendations and presentations for senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
* Own delivery of accurate, commercially robust pricing and promotional analysis, ensuring recommendations are actionable, governed, and operationally executable across systems and processes.
* Deliver high‑quality pricing and promotional analysis to identify opportunities that improve customer value perception, sales, profit, and overall market competitiveness.
* Own delivery of pricing and promotional analysis across defined categories, missions, or commercial workstreams, ensuring recommendations are commercially robust, customer‑led, and actionable.
* Monitor competitor pricing, promotional mechanics, market movements, and category trends to identify risks, opportunities, and required commercial actions.
* Use pricing, elasticity, sales, volume, margin, and customer data to model and recommend commercially viable pricing initiatives and investment opportunities.
* Support category and value strategy through data‑led pricing recommendations that balance customer competitiveness, volume performance, and profitability.
* Challenge existing pricing and promotional approaches using insight, modelling, and market analysis to improve commercial performance and customer perception.
* Maintain and develop pricing architecture across categories, ensuring clear Good/Better/Best positioning, logical price ladders, and alignment to category strategy and competitive benchmarks.
* Analyse the relationship between price, promotion, secondary space, and customer demand to understand sales outcomes and optimise commercial decision making.
* Apply analytical modelling techniques, including elasticity and scenario analysis, to evaluate commercial trade‑offs, forecast impact, and recommend optimal pricing actions.
* Identify opportunities to generate incremental sales, margin, and volume through pricing, promotional, and value‑led initiatives, with clear articulation of expected commercial outcomes and associated risks.
* Balance short‑term commercial performance with long‑term customer price perception and strategic category positioning.
* Produce clear, concise, and commercially focused insight packs and presentations for senior stakeholders, translating complex analysis into actionable recommendations.
* Execute pricing and promotional recommendations using multiple analytical and retail systems, ensuring strong governance, operational accuracy, and pace of delivery.
* Build and maintain reporting, tracking, modelling, and analytical outputs using advanced Excel capability and other analytical tools and software packages.
* Work cross‑functionally with Commercial, Finance, Category, Insights, and Operational teams to influence decision making and gain alignment on pricing and promotional strategies.
* Maintain a strong understanding of customer behaviour, category dynamics, market trends, and competitor positioning to support strategic and tactical commercial decisions.
* Support continuous improvement of pricing, promotional, and analytical processes to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of commercial decision making.
Essential skills/experience you'll need
* Advanced Excel capability, including large dataset management, complex formulas, pivots, modelling, scenario analysis, and data interpretation.
* Strong commercial and numerical acumen with the ability to translate analysis into clear, actionable commercial recommendations.
* Experience working within retail pricing, promotions, category analytics, commercial analytics, or revenue optimisation environments.
* Strong understanding of pricing principles, elasticity, competitor positioning, customer behaviour, and promotional effectiveness.
* Experience using analytical and visualisation tools such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau, pricing optimisation software, or equivalent commercial systems.
* Ability to work across multiple data sources and software platforms to deliver commercially focused insight and recommendations.
* Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex analysis and influence stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
* High attention to detail, strong analytical problem‑solving capability, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced commercial environment.
* Ability to combine strategic thinking with operational execution, balancing pace, governance, and commercial impact.
* Comfortable operating with ownership and accountability, proactively identifying opportunities, risks, and required actions across the commercial landscape.
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