Commercial Analyst

Location: Hybrid working, with 3 days a week in VHQ, Crawley

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: Sunday, 15th March 2026

At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it’s our vision to become the most loved travel company.

Virgin Atlantic Holidays is entering an ambitious phase of growth, focused on expanding our market presence and strengthening our commercial performance in a competitive travel landscape.

To deliver that ambition, we are investing in advanced analytics, automation and data-driven planning to improve commercial performance and strategic decision-making. This role plays a central part in that investment.

As a Commercial Analyst, you’ll join the Business Analysis & Planning team, responsible for delivering commercial insight, forecasting and performance analysis across Virgin Atlantic Holidays.

This is not a traditional reporting role. You will design and build analytical tools that directly inform pricing, trading and strategic planning decisions.

You’ll build scalable analytics, automation and AI-enabled insight that influences trading, forecasting and long-term strategy across multiple functions, helping shape the future direction of our commercial analytics capability. Operating at the intersection of data, automation and commercial performance, you’ll help the business move from hindsight to foresight, working closely with Commercial, Product, Retail and Tech Ops and contributing directly to cross-functional and leadership decision forums.

Beyond building tools, you’ll act as a strategic partner: shaping conversations, challenging assumptions and helping define both near-term actions and longer-term growth direction. The outputs you create won’t just sit in dashboards, they’ll sit in planning cycles, QBRs and strategic decision forums.

You will join at a pivotal stage of growth, with the opportunity to influence how analytics supports the next phase of commercial expansion. If you want your analytical capability to influence real business decisions at scale and help define how insight operates in the future, this is that opportunity.

As Commercial Analyst, you will:

• Design and develop scalable data models, dashboards, AI and automation solutions using Databricks and Power BI
• Build scenario models and foresight tools that influence pricing, margin trade-offs and long-term strategic direction
• Translate complex datasets into clear, structured recommendations for senior stakeholders
• Provide structured analysis to support quarterly business reviews, annual planning and commercial initiatives
• Identify and prioritise opportunities to modernise how VAH uses data — embedding automation and AI into the core of how decisions are made
• Safeguard data integrity and promote strong governance standards across analytics
• Partner cross-functionally across VAH to ensure insight translates into measurable revenue, margin and performance outcomes
• Contribute to discussions that shape investment decisions and commercial priorities

We’re looking for someone who combines technical capability with commercial ambition.

You’re motivated by solving complex problems, influencing decisions and being part of something evolving, not maintaining the status quo.

You’ll bring:

• Strong SQL capability, with experience writing complex queries across large datasets
• Experience building analytical models, dashboards and scenario-based analysis
• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake or similar)
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau
• Experience using Python for data analysis or automation is desirable, but not essential
• The ability to connect data to business context and articulate clear, confident recommendations
• Experience working in commercially driven environments where priorities may shift based on performance and market conditions
• A proactive approach, with the ability to identify opportunities for improvement and act independently

Experience in travel, aviation or commercial performance environments is advantageous, but not essential. We’re…