Commercial Business Partner | Cheshire | Retail | £45-£55k Axon Moore is recruiting a Commercial Business Partner within a market-leading and highly acquisitive Cheshire-based business. Having seen a number of strategic acquisitions integrated into the group in the last few years, the Commercial Business Partner will work closely with the Head of Commercial as well as other key stakeholders to dive the continued performance of the business. The successful candidate will; - Prepare financial analysis to influence promotional planning for each period - Review promotional performance each period and versus prior years to identify promotional effectiveness including price elasticity of products - Review and challenge year on year performance with buyers and understand any changes in performance and key drivers - Prepare sales and margin budget for franchised stores as part of annual budgeting process - Responsible for designing and scoping reporting on any new commercial projects - Preparing analysis on category range reviews to determine impact on sales and margin of any changes that have been implemented - Work with marketing team to understand impact of marketing campaigns on sales performance Skills and experience required: - ACA or CIMA qualified - Excellent communication skills including building relationships at all levels (including Director level) - High proficiency in Excel - Hands on attitude and capable of carrying out end to end analysis (data gathering to presentation) - Eye for detail and comfortable with dealing with large data sets - Strong commercial mind-set and ability to think outside of the box