We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Performance Analyst here at Whitbread. Working with a variety of areas, including Pricing, Digital Marketing, and Sales & Distribution, the Business Perf...

Role: Business Performance Analyst

Function: Finance (Commercial Strategy)

Location: Holborn (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Performance Analyst here at Whitbread. Working with a variety of areas, including Pricing, Digital Marketing, and Sales & Distribution, the Business Performance team provide a holistic view of the Premier Inn business and support the commercial performance across UK and Germany. We’re looking for a Business Performance Analyst who will be at the heart of an exciting and fast paced team, playing a significant role in making change happen every day. You will add value in this end-to-end role by working alongside stakeholders and using your analytical skills to drive powerful insights to facilitate change and promote growth in the Premier Inn business.

What you will be doing:

• Drive business action through researching and analysing key business projects and new concept development.
• Support senior management decision making by providing commercial analysis and insight, highlighting key risks and opportunities.
• Responsible for the production of UK & Germany reporting on key performance indicators, identifying trends in the data, and concisely communicating the story to the Business Performance Manager and Head of Location & Commercial Strategy.
• Production and development of occupancy and revenue forecasts for UK & Germany to assist budgeting processes.
• Analysis of Premier Inn performance vs key competitors, supporting in the provision of competitor and market data to the business.
• Step-change existing reporting and processes by identifying improvements to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
• Key support for trading statement data and other ad-hoc business queries.

Why we’d love you to apply:

• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to identify core issues and provide assessments grounded in compelling logic.
• Ability to work with vast amounts of data, managing data end to end, transforming various sources of data in to easily understood, actionable analysis and insight.
• Brilliant commercial awareness, preferably displayed in a similar previous role, with enthusiasm for market analysis and insight.
• Strong story-telling skills, with the ability to communicate to non-data literate stakeholders with ease.
• Experience in working with large and complex data models, or experience in Power BI/Tableau report building.
• Excellent Excel skills.
• Degree level or CIMA part qualified/finalist.
• A Level in Maths or equivalent.

We are the UK's leading hospitality company, a FTSE 100 organisation with employees worldwide. Owning successful brands such as Premier Inn and hub by Premier Inn, we have over 800 hotels and over 76,000 rooms across the UK, Germany and the Middle East. We are also proud to own over 420 restaurants across the UK including Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and our newer brands Bar + Block and Cookhouse & Pub. We have exciting plans to deliver our strategy that innovates and grows our core UK and international business, always keeping our customers at the heart of what we do.

In return, we will offer you:

• A market competitive base salary
• A collaborative work culture that focuses on enabling your success and continuing your personal development
• A genuine flexible working policy
• Individual BUPA healthcare
• Optional contributory pension matched up to 10%
• Free parking across our Head Office campus
• Subsidised restaurant
• Up to 25% discount off our brands
• Perks at work

Whitbread is an inclusive employer. We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQ+ community (those who identify as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, trans sexual, non binary or use another term), are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. We are open to part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this.