Commercial Stock Analyst - Exit Management

Commercial Stock Analyst - Exit Management (36907)

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 Commercial Analyst in the Core Business Analytics team, you'll support the Commercial Operations function with a focus on stock exit and clearance performance. You'll partner with stakeholders across Trading, Commercial, Pricing, and Supply Chain to deliver insights that improve exit planning, reduce aged stock, and optimise margin recovery on markdown and end-of-line activity.

• Partner with Trading, Supply Chain, and Commercial Ops to identify stock exit challenges and help shape smarter clearance decisions.
• Build dashboards in Metabase that track exit performance, markdown effectiveness, and aged stock risk.
• Write SQL to analyse product, store, and channel-level clearance outcomes.
• Evaluate effectiveness of pricing levers, discounting mechanics, and exit channel strategies.
• Provide visibility into exit performance against forecast, target, and historic benchmarks.
• Run deep dives into underperforming SKUs, range transitions, and residual inventory impact.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with BI Developers, Embedded Analysts, and Pricing & Promotions teams to deliver data products.
• Contribute to sprint planning and backlog shaping as part of the Commercial Ops analytics roadmap.
• Work with a modern data stack, including Redshift, Big Query , Matillion , and Retool.

This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week expected in either our Nuneaton office (CV10 7RH
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• SQL proficiency :
  Comfortable querying, joining, and transforming data to analyse stock, sales, and markdown performance.
• Commercial awareness:
  Understands pricing, lifecycle, and margin trade-offs related to stock clearance and end-of-line management.
• Communication:
  Able to clearly explain trade-offs and performance trends to commercial and supply chain stakeholders.
• Delivery ownership:
  Manages own tasks within agile delivery, balancing speed and accuracy.
• Visualisation skills:
  Builds usable dashboards in Metabase that support operational planning.
• Collaborative mindset:
  Works well across Commercial, Supply, and Pricing functions.
• Education & Experience:
  
  You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Engineering, and 2–3 years of experience in analytics—preferably with exposure to commercial operations, pricing, or inventory analytics.

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Technology
Incentive Scheme - we offer different bonus schemes for all grades in Technology, starting at 10%.

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Learning and
Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.

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Pension company
contribution

✈️ Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 28 or 33 Days Holiday per year.

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Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.

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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.

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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!

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