Commercial Analyst

Activate Group; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading analytics firm in Peterborough is seeking a Commercial Analyst to support business decision-making through data insights. The role involves collaborating with business leaders to analyze commercial drivers and translating data into actionable recommendations. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, experience with Power BI, and excellent communication abilities. This position offers a salary range of £30,000 - £50,000 along with numerous benefits including health plans and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

33 days holiday

Health cash plan

Enhanced parental pay

Life assurance

Free breakfasts

Birthday surprise

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Commercial Analyst or similar role.
• Strong capabilities linking data insights to business outcomes.
• Advanced analytical skills using Power BI.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to drive analyses independently.

Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth commercial analysis to identify performance drivers.
• Use Power BI for data insights and support decision making.
• Translate complex data into clear recommendations for stakeholders.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and performance tracking.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Analytical skills

SQL skills

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving mindset

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Job title: Commercial Analyst

Department: IT

Location: Peterborough

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £30,000 - £50,000

We’re looking for a Commercial Analyst to be part of our success story.

Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies. Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

We are looking for a commercially minded Commercial Analyst to support a specific company within the Group, partnering closely with senior stakeholders to drive better decision‑making through data and insight. This role focuses on understanding how the business operates, identifying opportunities for value creation, and translating data into clear, actionable commercial recommendations.

You will leverage data from our central Microsoft Fabric platform and use Power BI as a core analysis and visualisation tool, but the emphasis will be less on standardised dashboards and more on deep‑dive analysis, insight generation, and business partnering.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with business leaders and functional teams to understand commercial drivers, performance metrics and business logic.
• Conduct in‑depth commercial analysis to identify opportunities, risks, trends and drivers of performance.
• Use Power BI and analytical tools to explore data, create targeted insights and support decision‑making.
• Develop ad‑hoc and bespoke analytical outputs.
• Translate complex data into clear commercial narratives and recommendations for non‑technical stakeholders.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, pricing, margin analysis and performance tracking where required.
• Act as a bridge between the business and central Data & BI teams, feeding requirements and insights back into the wider data ecosystem.
• Continuously challenge assumptions and promote a data‑driven culture within the business unit.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience in a Commercial Analyst, Business Analyst, Finance Analyst, or similar role.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to link data insights to business outcomes.
• Advanced analytical skills with experience using Power BI for analysis and insight generation.
• Strong SQL skills and comfort working directly with curated datasets.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and drive analysis end‑to‑end.
• Strong problem‑solving mindset and curiosity with data.

Desirable:

• Experience working within a business‑unit aligned or embedded analytics role.
• Exposure to Fabric or modern cloud data platforms.
• Understanding of financial concepts such as revenue, margin, cost drivers and forecasting.
• Experience influencing decisions at senior management level.
• Familiarity with self‑service analytics and data governance principles.

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check‑ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest‑growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK‑wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose:

Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team‑player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.