Senior Analyst — Commercial (Beauty)

About THG  

We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition.  

Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition.  

From Manchester to New York, we’re powered by a team of over 2500 people who work together, lead by example, and think BIG.  

With us, you’ll go further, faster. What are you waiting for? 

Location: Icon 1, WA15 0AF

Life at THG Beauty

We know that beauty isn’t one-size-fits-all. Our portfolio of leading retailers and iconic beauty brands caters to everyone, everywhere, empowering customers all over the world to look and feel fantastic.

By combining our portfolio of owned brands inclusive of ESPA, Ameliorate and Christophe Robin, with a marketplace for over 1,300 third-party beauty brands through online retail sites LOOKFANTASTIC, Cult Beauty, and Dermstore, THG Beauty's ambition is to be the global digital partner of choice across the beauty industry, supporting the channel shift to online.

THG Beauty’s breadth of relationships is unique to the beauty market; it engages with brands as a retailer, a brand owner, and a product developer and manufacturer, making it the industry’s digital strategic leader.

Why be a Senior Analyst — Commercial (Beauty) at THG? 

As Senior Analyst in the Beauty Commercial team, you will own analytical work that helps THG’s Beauty division understand and improve its commercial performance. Working across category and brand analytics, you will build the analysis and insight that enables buying and commercial teams to make better decisions. This is one of three Senior Analyst roles in the Beauty Commercial team.

As a Senior Analyst — Commercial (Beauty) , you will:  

Commercial Analytics

• Own analytical projects across commercial performance — predominantly on category and brand analytics while also supporting pricing, promotional effectiveness, subscriptions performance
• Build analysis that helps the business understand what drives commercial performance
• Develop and maintain commercial KPI reporting
• Identify commercial opportunities and risks through data

Technical Delivery

• Write and maintain SQL queries and analytical scripts
• Work with the Engineering team to understand the commercial data model
• Build dashboards and reports that communicate commercial performance clearly

Stakeholder Engagement

• Present findings to the Commercial Lead and Beauty commercial stakeholders
• Manage ad hoc analytical requests from buying and trading teams

What skills and experience do I need for this role?

Essential

• Experience (typically 3+ years) in commercial analytics, trading analytics or similar
• Strong SQL skills
• Strong storytelling skills
• Proven ability to work independently

Desirable

• Experience in beauty, lifestyle, fashion or e-commerce environments
• Experience analysing commercial performance — on category or brand performance data
• Experience with Tableau, Looker or equivalent BI tooling

What Good Looks Like at This Level

At THG, we expect everyone to demonstrate behaviours that match their level. Here is what that looks like in this role:

• Operates largely independently — owns complex commercial analytics end-to-end
• Deep expertise in commercial analytics
• Accountable for own targets with minimal supervision
• Understands how commercial analytics connects to revenue, margin and trading outcomes
• Applies commercial judgement

What’s in it for me?

Career Development

• Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team.
• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider.

Enhanced Leave

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us!
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
• Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
• Buy back up to 3 days each year.
• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months.

Wellbeing Support

• Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP.
• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.
• State-of-the-art on-site gym.
• Access to our on-site physio.

Other Perks

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
• On-site staff shop.
• Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation.
• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.

THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.