Principal Data Analyst - Commercial Analytics

The impact you’ll have: Reporting to the Head of Analytics, the Principal Analyst for Commercial Analytics will lead a high performing team in delivering analytical solutions to strategic commercial questions, analysing performance, and advising on day to day decision making.

Your day-to-day:

• Managing a team of analysts working across multiple stakeholder groups including trading, pricing, supply, finance, product and platform teams.
• Acting as the key analytics partner for the Commercial domain, helping loveholidays understand and optimise the levers that drive revenue, margin, demand and market performance.
• Levelling up analytical influence on strategic and tactical decisions, leveraging data to deeply understand how to measure and optimise performance for both customers and the business.
• Setting standards for high quality visualisations and reports (we use Looker).
• Partnering with stakeholders to build clear views of trading performance, pricing effectiveness, supply coverage and margin drivers, identifying where there is opportunity for optimisation.
• Working closely with analysts, engineers, trading, supply and finance teams to ensure data products meet the needs of stakeholders and reporting.

Your skillset:

• Expert capabilities across analyst tooling - incl. SQL and experience with analytical engineering tools such as dbt.
• Experience using a visualisation tool such as Tableau or Looker.
• Experience leveraging AI tooling for delivery, with enthusiasm for transforming how we build and interact with data.
• Extensive experience in commercial, trading, pricing, revenue, marketplace or supply analytics.
• Collaborative approach and good relationship builder - with proven experience of stakeholder engagement and a reputation for strategic thinking.
• A strong desire for agency, with the ability and desire to own projects from brief through to delivery, and proactively advise with insight.
• Curiosity and the application of systems thinking to join the dots between customer demand, commercial performance, margin, supply performance and product experience.
• Experience leading small to medium sized teams of analysts in a fast paced environment.

Desirable:

• Experience with a version control system such as git.
• Experience of a programming language such as Python or R.

Perks of joining us:

• Company pension contributions at 5%.
• Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up.
• Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends.
• 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum.
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave.
• Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers.