Lead Analyst - Pricing & Promotions

Up to £60,000 + benefits
Hybrid (1 day per week in London)

We're working with a large UK retailer who are building out a new centralised analytics capability focused on pricing, promotions, and commercial optimisation. This is a newly created team with strong senior sponsorship and increasing investment in data-led decision making and AI-enabled pricing strategy.

The Opportunity

This is a high-visibility analytics role sitting close to commercial leadership, supporting pricing decisions across a large and complex retail estate. The team is responsible for developing more advanced, data-driven approaches to pricing and promotional effectiveness.

You'll work across both strategic initiatives and fast-turnaround commercial analysis, helping shape how pricing is set, measured, and optimised.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse competitor pricing activity and support commercial recommendations
• Deliver insight and performance analysis across pricing and promotional activity
• Support pricing optimisation and test-and-learn initiatives
• Build analytical models (e.g. regression, elasticity, incrementality measurement)
• Translate commercial questions into structured analytical outputs
• Respond to ad hoc requests from senior stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Contribute to wider initiatives around AI and advanced pricing capability
• Use SQL (essential) and Python for data analysis and insight generation
• Line management responsibility for a junior/graduate analyst

Focus Areas / Projects

• Development of a more advanced, AI-enabled pricing capability
• Evaluation of promotional mechanics and pricing effectiveness in-store
• Assessment of customer impact and incrementality of key pricing strategies
• Ongoing optimisation of pricing decisions across the business

Candidate Profile

• 3+ years' experience in a commercial analytics role
• Strong SQL skills (essential)
• Working knowledge of Python for analysis/model development
• Experience in pricing, promotions, elasticity, or commercial optimisation preferred
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including senior stakeholders
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, reactive environment
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to link data to business outcomes

What to Expect

• Mix of strategic project work and urgent analytical requests
• High stakeholder exposure and expectation of clear, actionable insight
• Technical assessment and case study as part of interview process

Package

• Up to £60,000
• Hybrid working (1 day/week in London)
• Competitive benefits package

Interview Process

Single stage process split into two parts:

• Technical + competency interview
• Live case study (in-person)

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