Commercial Data Analyst
EMEAI Commercial Operations
Are you passionate about using data to drive better business decisions? Do you enjoy uncovering insights, solving problems, and working with stakeholders across different functions? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
We are looking for a Commercial Data Analyst to join our EMEAI Commercial Operations team. This is an excellent opportunity for an analytical and detail-oriented professional to play a key role in delivering commercial reporting, analytics, and actionable insights across the region.
Working within the Commercial Analytics team, you will help ensure commercial teams have access to accurate, relevant, and easy-to-use data that supports performance, planning, and strategic decision-making. You'll collaborate with stakeholders across Sales, Commercial Operations, and Global Analytics teams to identify reporting needs, improve data quality, and develop dashboards and reporting solutions that drive business impact.
What You'll Be Doing
- Develop, maintain, and improve commercial reports, dashboards, and performance metrics.
- Analyse commercial data to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and actionable insights.
- Partner with regional commercial teams to understand business needs and reporting requirements.
- Translate business questions into meaningful analytics and reporting solutions.
- Identify and investigate data quality issues across multiple commercial data sources.
- Support the development of interim and long-term reporting and analytics solutions.
- Collaborate with global analytics teams to ensure EMEAI reporting requirements are represented in broader business initiatives.
- Support testing, implementation, and adoption of new reporting tools and dashboards.
- Deliver ad hoc analysis to support key business priorities and commercial decision-making.
- Drive continuous improvements in reporting processes, data accessibility, and self-service analytics capabilities.
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Degree in Business, Economics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- 2+ years' experience in a business analytics, commercial operations, data analytics, or similar role.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to turn data into meaningful insights.
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and quality.
- Strong Excel skills and experience working with large datasets.
- Experience using business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Desirable
- SQL knowledge and experience querying data.
- Familiarity with CRM systems such as Salesforce.
- Experience with ERP platforms including Dynamics 365, Oracle, or SAP.
- Understanding of commercial processes, sales reporting, and business performance metrics.
- Experience working with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.
- Exposure to project management or business analysis methodologies.
- Experience within life sciences, biotechnology, healthcare, or technology-driven organisations.
Why Join Us?
This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of data, analytics, and commercial strategy, helping to shape business decisions across an international region. You'll gain exposure to a wide range of stakeholders, contribute to exciting reporting and analytics initiatives, and play a key role in enabling data-driven decision-making across the business.
If you're a curious and commercially minded analyst looking to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.
Skills Required
- Degree in Business, Economics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
- At least 2 years of experience in business analytics, commercial operations, data analytics, or a similar role
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to turn data into meaningful insights
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and quality
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills and experience working with large datasets
- Experience using business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau
- Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Self-motivated, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- SQL knowledge and experience querying data
- Familiarity with CRM systems such as Salesforce
- Experience with ERP platforms including Dynamics 365, Oracle, or SAP
- Understanding of commercial processes, sales reporting, and business performance metrics
- Experience working with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams
- Exposure to project management or business analysis methodologies
- Experience within life sciences, biotechnology, healthcare, or technology-driven organizations
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies Insights
What We Do
Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone. We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data. We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society. Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide. Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
