Pricing Insight & Analytics Lead

We're proud to be part of STARK Building Materials UK and dedicated to providing top-quality products and exceptional service to our customers. We're a friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well.

We're searching for a Pricing Insights & Analytics Lead to join us on a permanent basis at our Binley, Coventry HQ. The purpose of this role is to lead the identification, assessment and delivery of pricing opportunities across STARK UK, using internal pricing data, margin insight and external market understanding to challenge performance and support better commercial decisions. The role will initially focus on establishing reliable pricing dashboards, reporting and visibility, but its longer-term purpose is to move beyond reporting and proactively highlight where pricing action can improve margin, competitiveness and customer value across the business.

Key Responsibilities

Pricing Opportunity Identification: Proactively analyse pricing, margin, discounting, customer and product data to identify opportunities for commercial improvement, stronger margin performance and better pricing consistency.

Market & Industry Insight: Build a strong understanding of external market conditions, competitor activity and wider builders merchants industry trends to inform where pricing movement, risk or opportunity may exist.

Commercial Challenge & Action Planning: Work with pricing, commercial, category and branch teams to challenge current pricing decisions, test opportunities and turn insight into clear actions.

Risk & Concern Highlighting: Identify areas of pricing leakage, inconsistency, underperformance or market misalignment, ensuring concerns are visible early and supported by clear evidence.

Initial Dashboard & Reporting Set-Up: Establish the core dashboards and/or reports needed to create visibility and a consistent starting point for decision-making. Once embedded, these outputs should support ongoing opportunity identification rather than become the main focus of the role.

Data Quality & Governance: Support the improvement of pricing data quality, governance and consistency, ensuring decisions are based on trusted and well-structured data.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Pricing, Commercial, Category, Finance, MI/BI and Data teams to align insight, reporting and action planning.

Opportunity Tracking: Track identified pricing opportunities from insight

through to action, helping the business understand expected impact, progress and outcomes.

Adoption & Enablement: Drive the use of pricing insight across commercial teams, helping colleagues understand trends, risks and opportunities in a simple and actionable way.

Key Deliverables

• Prioritised pricing opportunity pipeline
• Pricing opportunity and concern reports with clear recommended actions
• Market and competitor insight for the builders merchants industry
• Margin, discounting and price movement analysis
• Category, branch, customer and product pricing analysis
• Initial pricing dashboards, KPIs and reporting framework
• Tracking of pricing actions, outcomes and benefits delivered

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in Power BI, data analysis and data visualisation tools
• Proven ability to translate complex pricing data into clear commercial insight
• Experience working with pricing, product, customer, sales and financial data
• Strong understanding of margin, discounting, competitiveness and commercial performance
• Ability to interpret external market trends and industry movement
• Strong stakeholder management across commercial, category, finance and data teams
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving capability and attention to detail

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive Base salary
• Hybrid Working – 4 days at our Binley, Coventry office and 1-day WFH.
• Discretionary bonus
• Retirement savings plan
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• A wide range of voluntary benefits including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, car salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare and more.
• Access to a wealth of health and wellbeing services including access to online GP appointments and mental health support.
• WorkPerks – A platform home to hundreds of all your favourite high street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway.

Why Choose Us?

Quality - We’re unwavering in our commitment to providing outstanding products and service that exceed our customers’ expectations.

Supportive Environment - Join a culture that prioritises your growth, with the resources and support you need to excel. We listen and learn – we know we haven’t always got all the answers – listening and learning with you is what helps provide the best service to our customers.

Professional Development - We are invested in your success! Can we add this instead? You have a real chance to progress- the only limits are your own Explore our apprenticeships, training, and mentoring programs designed to elevate your career.

Great Benefits - Enjoy a compelling package that includes a competitive salary, bonuses, pension schemes, and life assurance, among many other perks!

Work-Life Balance - We value your well-being and offer flexible working hours and a hybrid working model to help you find your ideal rhythm

What's Next

If your application is successful, our Talent team will reach out to arrange an interview and answer any questions you may have. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout the application and interview process.

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About Us

STARK Building Materials UK comprises 14 brands, including one of the UK’s leading builders’ merchants Jewson, along with JP Corry and Normans, specialist brands Minster and Jewson Civils Frazer, as well as major timber importer and distributor, International Timber.

With over 600 dedicated builders merchant branches and distribution centres, this makes us one of the UK’s largest retailers and distributors of building and construction materials.

However, more importantly, our dedicated team and the high-quality products we offer make us trusted, expert partners to the industry.

Together, we give our customers hassle-free access to the market-leading, sustainable solutions they need to build responsibly for the future.

If you’d like to build that future with us, check out our careers page or get in touch.

Why work here?

At STARK Building Materials UK, we are known for our building distribution, but in reality, it is our colleagues that drive our business forward. All around the UK, in our branches, warehouses and offices, our team give everything to make building better for our customers.

We value our customers, the communities we work in and the colleagues in our team, who collectively build our business to ever greater heights every day.

We strive to create a workplace where all colleagues feel safe and empowered to do their best and are comfortable to bring their true selves to work every day.

We are proud that we offer all our colleagues a great place to work.