Commercial Business Analyst

Sivagroup; Southampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK manufacturer in Southampton is looking for a Commercial Business Analyst. The role involves developing pricing and costing models, analyzing financial data, and collaborating with the CFO for cost management. The ideal candidate holds a degree in a quantitative field and has over 2 years of relevant experience, ideally in manufacturing. This position offers a competitive salary, bonus, and benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Benefits package

Sustainability mission

Qualifications

• 2+ years in revenue and cost management supporting sales/commercial teams.
• Experience in manufacturing or related sectors.
• Comfortable analyzing large datasets to find margin improvements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain pricing models for products.
• Monitor and report gross margin actuals vs forecasts.
• Collaborate with CFO for centralized cost database.

Skills

Strong analytical mindset

Attention to detail

Proficient in Excel

Clear communication skills

Education

Degree in STEM or related field

Tools

Sage

ERP systems

SQL or other data querying tools

Job description

Overview

We're Hiring: Commercial Business Analyst (Pricing and Cost Analyst)

Location: Southampton, Hampshire (On-site)

Company: SIVA Group

Employment Type: Full-Time

About Us

SIVA Group is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of high-performance flexible packaging, serving customers across the food, industrial, and consumer sectors. We are a privately owned family business established 50 years ago. With an ambitious growth agenda, we remain committed to innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence.

The Role

We’re seeking a Commercial Business Analyst to join our commercial and operational finance teams. This pivotal role supports pricing, bid and tender estimating, and margin analysis. You’ll work closely with our CFO, commercial team, and production managers to ensure cost accuracy, improve margin visibility, and speed up quoting for new and existing business.

This is a key growth support role to the commercial sales organization of SIVA Group.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain robust pricing and costing models across our product portfolio
• Ensure gross margin actual vs forecast by customer is monitored and reported monthly
• Analyse actual vs standard costs and identify areas for improvement
• Deliver accurate costings to support commercial pricing decisions
• Collaborate with the CFO to build and maintain a centralised cost database for rapid estimating
• Provide insights to support margin improvement, budgeting, and forecasting
• Sales reporting and analysis for senior level stakeholders
• Analysis of KPI reports including channel, customer, product profitability providing investigation and commentary on variance to plan for the SLT
• Month end commentary and analysis of sales and margin comparisons to prior year, liaison with Commercial team to understand/challenge and draw insight on performance, risks and opportunities
• Staying close to competitor activity, customer feedback, and regulatory changes

Requirements

• Degree qualified, or hold similar level professional qualification, in a STEM or other quantitative subject such as Economics, Business, Finance etc
• 2+ years in revenue and cost management supporting sales/commercial teams
• Sector experience, ideally manufacturing; others considered—construction, logistics, consulting
• Strong analytical mindset — comfortable working with large datasets to spot patterns and shape margin improvements
• Strong attention to detail, plus self-organisational and self-checking skills to deal with the requirements of working on large tenders with tight deadlines and complex data
• Highly proficient in Excel; confident in tools like PowerPoint and Office Apps
• Clear communicator with experience influencing commercial decisions
• Able to juggle multiple priorities and shift between routine tasks and more strategic projects
• A genuine interest in understanding how price and margin impact business performance

Nice to have

• Qualified accountant CIMA / ACA / ACCA
• Sage, ERP systems and SQL or other data querying tools
• Good grasp of P&L basics such as margin, cashflow, time-value-of-money
• Experience with packaging / flexible PE packaging

Why Join SIVA?

• Be part of a growing, family-owned UK manufacturer with a clear sustainability mission
• Lead revenue and gross profit increases on a high-impact, high-visibility part of the business
• Work in a collaborative team with strong cross-functional links in a growing business
• Competitive salary + bonus + benefits package

How to Apply

Apply Now

If you’re ready to make a measurable impact and grow your career in a dynamic manufacturing environment, we’d love to hear from you.

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