About Data at Holland & Barrett
At Holland & Barrett (H&B), we want to empower everyone to live healthier, happier lives. With over 150 years of experience, we are 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
The 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 Category Analyst
In the Core Business Analytics team, you will support one of our flagship categories: VHMS, Food & Sports, or Beauty. You will 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.
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 that 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 a requirement to be in the office at least two days per week.
The Person
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.
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!
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.
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
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