Commercial Data & Insights Business Partner

Position: Commercial Data & Insights Business Partner
Location: Solihull (Hybrid)
Salary: Competitive + Benefits (pension, 25 days holiday, employee discounts, relocation support)

A leading multinational business is seeking a Commercial Business Partner with strong analytical capability to join their European HQ FP&A team. This is a key hire designed to strengthen the link between commercial performance and data-driven insight.

Role Overview:

• Join a well-established FP&A function with a strong focus on analytics, BI, and decision support.
• Act as the primary interface between finance, commercial, and BI teams.
• Translate large data sets into actionable insights and commercial outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead European commercial reporting and forecasting, providing high-quality insights across sales performance, pricing, customer profitability, and product mix.
• Build and maintain a robust commercial metrics framework for consistent, transparent KPI reporting and internal benchmarking.
• Collaborate with BI and Pricing teams to evolve reporting capabilities using tools like Power BI, Tableau, and Snowflake.
• Develop detailed product and customer profitability reports, including volume, price, mix, sales initiatives, and cross-border trading.
• Support key stakeholders by delivering meaningful analysis that informs pricing strategy, new product performance, and commercial planning.
• Identify performance trends and business drivers behind financial data, clearly communicating insights to drive operational improvements.
• Own the forecast and budget processes for commercial performance across the European region, ensuring accuracy, realism, and challenge.
• Standardise financial processes and improve data quality, consistency, and transparency across multiple markets and business units.

Candidate Profile:

• Strong background in commercial finance, business partnering, or commercial analytics in a large, complex environment (ideally multinational).
• Proven experience using data and BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, SQL) to drive decision-making.
• Ability to work with large data sets and convert findings into meaningful, actionable insights for commercial teams.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, capable of challenging and influencing senior stakeholders across finance, commercial, and operations.
• Experience working in matrix organisations and/or global environments preferred.
• Strong understanding of pricing, margin analysis, and commercial performance metrics.

Desirable:

• Experience in a manufacturing or product-led environment.
• Exposure to modern data platforms and transformation initiatives.