Overview
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 Supply Chain Analyst in the Core Business Analytics team, you'll partner with stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Commercial, and DC Operations to deliver insights that improve availability, efficiency, and inventory quality. Whether your focus is demand forecasting, network optimisation, or stock accuracy, you'll play a key role in using data to improve planning and execution across our end-to-end supply chain.
The Role
What You'll Do
- Use data to solve challenges in demand planning, fulfilment, and stock optimisation across Supply Chain and Logistics.
- Build dashboards in Metabase to track demand, inventory levels, DC throughput, and network efficiency.
- Write robust SQL to extract and transform data from operational, forecasting, and inventory sources.
- Deliver ad-hoc analysis on forecast accuracy, inbound flow, and stock availability to support supply decisions.
- Collaborate across Supply Chain, BI, and Commercial teams to create scalable data products.
- Contribute to sprint planning and backlog prioritisation within the Supply Chain analytics roadmap.
Location
This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week expected in either our London or Nuneaton office.
The Person
- SQL proficiency: Comfortable querying, joining, and transforming large datasets from operations, inventory, and supply planning sources.
- Supply chain awareness: Familiar with concepts like demand forecasting, DC operations, inbound flow, stock availability, and network planning.
- Communication: Able to translate operational data into insight that's usable by planners, logistics, and commercial teams.
- Delivery ownership: Manages projects or tasks reliably through agile delivery cycles.
- Visualisation skills: Designs clean, usable dashboards in Metabase (or experience with equivalent tools like Tableau, Looker, PowerBI).
- Collaborative mindset: Works well in cross-functional environments and contributes to team delivery.
- Education & Experience: You have a degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or Supply Chain, and 2–4 years of experience in a data or analytics role—preferably in supply chain, retail operations, or forecasting.
- Health Cash Plan
- Life Assurance
- Incentive Scheme
- Virtual GP
- Private Medical
- Holiday Purchase option
- Pension Contribution
- Access to ‘Wellhub' with gyms, studios and wellbeing apps
Benefits
- 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 Diversity & Wellbeing Commitment
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/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 submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless otherwise agreed with respect to specific open position(s).
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
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