Join Pets at Home as a Commercial Promotions Analyst based in Handforth, Cheshire with hybrid working. This role involves evaluating promotional opportunities and analyzing trading data to drive business performance and deliver value for customers.
Requirements
Experience analysing sales, trading, commercial or customer data
Strong Excel and analytical skills
Experience within retail, merchandising, category management, commercial finance or customer insight is preferred
No specific degree or minimum years of experience stated
Skills & Responsibilities
Data Analysis: Interpret large data sets and sales figures to assess promotional performance and commercial return.
Stakeholder Management: Support Buying teams with clear recommendations and collaborate with Finance and Insight teams.
Performance Evaluation: Define success measures, targets, and produce post-promotion reviews.
Potential transition routes: People from commercial analyst, category management, or retail pricing roles may bring relevant data analysis and commercial skills.
Job description
Analyse, Influence and Improve Promotions Across Pets at Home!
At Pets at Home, we're passionate about making life better for pets, pet owners and our colleagues. We're looking for a Commercial Promotions Analyst to help shape smarter promotional decisions that deliver value for customers and drive business performance.
About the Role
As part of our Commercial Enablement team, you'll use sales, trading and customer data to evaluate promotional opportunities, measure performance and provide recommendations that influence future trading plans. Working closely with Buying, Finance, Data Science and Insight teams, you'll help ensure our promotions are commercially effective, customer-focused and deliver the best possible return.
The role offers hybrid working from our Support Office in Handforth, Cheshire.
What you'll be doing
Evaluating promotional opportunities and supplier proposals to identify which offers will deliver the greatest value and impact
Analysing sales, margins and customer data to assess promotional performance and commercial return
Defining success measures, targets and performance benchmarks for promotional activity
Producing insightful post-promotion reviews that highlight what worked, what didn't and where we can improve
Investigating trading trends and unexpected results through ad hoc analysis and reporting
Supporting Buying teams with clear recommendations and evidence-based decision making
Collaborating with Finance, Data Science and Insight teams to enhance reporting, tools and analytical capabilities
What we're looking for
Experience analysing sales, trading, commercial or customer data and using insights to drive business decisions
Strong Excel and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret large data sets and translate findings into clear recommendations
Confidence working with sales, margin and forecasting data to understand commercial performance
A naturally curious, detail-focused approach with strong problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge constructively
The ability to balance regular reporting responsibilities with ad hoc analytical projects
It would be great if you also have
Experience within retail, merchandising, category management, commercial finance or customer insight environments
An understanding of promotions, pricing, margins and retail trading performance
Experience using Power BI or similar reporting and visualisation tools
Why Pets at Home?
This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the promotional activity seen by millions of pet owners across the UK. You'll work with talented commercial teams, influence important business decisions and help us continue delivering great value for pets and their owners.
If you love turning data into insight and insight into action, we'd love to hear from you.
Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!
