Commercial Data & Insights Business Partner

Position: Commercial Data & Insights Business Partner

Location: Solihull (Hybrid)

Salary: Competitive + Benefits (pension, 25 days holiday, employee discounts, relocation support)

A leading multinational business is seeking a Commercial Business Partner with strong analytical capability to join their European HQ FP&A team. This is a key hire designed to strengthen the link between commercial performance and data-driven insight.

Role Overview:

Join a well-established FP&A function with a strong focus on analytics, BI, and decision support.
Act as the primary interface between finance, commercial, and BI teams.
Translate large data sets into actionable insights and commercial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead European commercial reporting and forecasting, providing high-quality insights across sales performance, pricing, customer profitability, and product mix.
Build and maintain a robust commercial metrics framework for consistent, transparent KPI reporting and internal benchmarking.
Collaborate with BI and Pricing teams to evolve reporting capabilities using tools like Power BI, Tableau, and Snowflake.
Develop detailed product and customer profitability reports, including volume, price, mix, sales initiatives, and cross-border trading.
Support key stakeholders by delivering meaningful analysis that informs pricing strategy, new product performance, and commercial planning.
Identify performance trends and business drivers behind financial data, clearly communicating insights to drive operational improvements.
Own the forecast and budget processes for commercial performance across the European region, ensuring accuracy, realism, and challenge.
Standardise financial processes and improve data quality, consistency, and transparency across multiple markets and business units.

Candidate Profile:

Strong background in commercial finance, business partnering, or commercial analytics in a large, complex environment (ideally multinational).
Proven experience using data and BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, SQL) to drive decision-making.
Ability to work with large data sets and convert findings into meaningful, actionable insights for commercial teams.
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, capable of challenging and influencing senior stakeholders across finance, commercial, and operations.
Experience working in matrix organisations and/or global environments preferred.
Strong understanding of pricing, margin analysis, and commercial performance metrics.

Desirable:

Experience in a manufacturing or product-led environment.
Exposure to modern data platforms and transformation initiatives