Senior Category Data Analyst – Holland & Barrett
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About Data at Holland & Barrett
With over 150 years of experience we are the largest health and wellness retailer in Europe and a globally trusted brand. Our ambition is to become the world’s most trusted wellness partner.
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’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.
This is a hybrid role based in Nuneaton, with the requirement to be in the office at least two days per week.
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 e‑commerce 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 and 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.
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: explain complex findings clearly to non‑technical audiences and adapt insight to the business context.
- Delivery ownership: independently lead high‑impact projects from discovery through to implementation.
- Visualisation skills: design clean, usable dashboards in Metabase (or equivalent tools such as Tableau, Looker, PowerBI).
- Team contribution: mentor others, share knowledge and strengthen team delivery through feedback and collaboration.
- Education & experience: a degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or Engineering, and extensive experience in analytics, preferably with exposure to commercial, retail or trading environments.
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 or 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 is submitted by a search firm or recruiter unless otherwise agreed with respect to a specific open position.
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
