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 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.
The Role
What You’ll Do
- Partner with Property, Commercial, and Space Planning teams to understand business problems and help them make better decisions through data.
- Lead the development of dashboards and tools in Metabase that track space performance, location profitability, and layout effectiveness.
- Write clean, efficient SQL to transform and analyse large datasets across sales, store attributes, formats, and product hierarchies.
- Translate business needs into clear analytical questions and deliver insights that guide senior stakeholder decisions.
- Take ownership of deliveryscoping, prioritising, and executing projects aligned to estate strategy and category impact.
- Ensure outputs are scalable, documented, and embedded into team workflows.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with BI Developers, Embedded Analysts, and Commercial teams to deliver end‑to‑end data products.
- Mentor mid‑level analysts and contribute to capability‑building across the Core Business Analytics team.
- Work with a modern data stack, including Redshift, BigQuery, Matillion, and Retool.
Location
This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week expected in either our London or Nuneaton office.
The Person
Core Skills & Behaviours
- SQL expertise: Confident writing advanced queries to support spatial, location‑based, or estate‑level analysis.
- Commercial and spatial acumen: Understands planogram levers, store investment metrics, space efficiency, and format strategy.
- Stakeholder leadership: Experienced working with Heads of Property, Space & Range, and Commercial functions.
- Communication: Explains data clearly and credibly to non‑technical audiences; adapts insight to business context.
- Delivery ownership: Independently leads high‑impact projects from discovery through 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 analytics delivery through collaboration.
Education & Experience
You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Geography, Statistics, Engineering, or Economics, and 46 years of experience in analyticspreferably with exposure to property, space, or store planning.
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.
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