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'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.
As a Senior Analyst in the Core Business Analytics team, you'll support the Property, Format, and Space & Range functions, using data to optimise our store footprint, layout strategy, and space performance. You'll partner closely with stakeholders across Property, Commercial, and Space Planning to support decisions on new store investments, refits, planograms, and in-store execution.
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 delivery-scoping, 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 4-6 years of experience in analytics-preferably with exposure to property, space, or store planning.
Benefits
Technology Incentive Scheme - we offer different bonus schemes for all grades in Technology, starting at 10%.
Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
Career progression
Pension company contribution
Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 28 or 33 Days Holiday per year.
Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.
Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.
We all need a little help sometimes, so we offer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.
Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
And many more!
Our Recruitment Process:
Our selection process is designed to be thorough, transparent, and aligned with the role. It includes:
- 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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