CarTrawler

Lead Commercial Analyst

CarTrawler

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Dublin • 🇮🇪 Ireland

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

SQLTableau

About the role

  • Lead end-to-end commercial analytics: frame ambiguous problems, choose methodology, execute analysis, and deliver recommendations with minimal supervision.
  • Manage and align multiple stakeholders; translate complex analysis into clear recommendations and drive decisions.
  • Prepare and present exec-quality partner facing performance materials; interpret partner business needs, contextualise key performance drivers, align on KPIs and targets, and convert insights into agreed actions.
  • Partner with squad peers to shape pricing and growth strategies; identify and recommend appropriate levers, define testing plans and quantify impact.
  • Own regular P&L performance deep dives, including drivers, risks/opportunities, and scenario/sensitivity modelling.
  • Lead scalable analytical projects (reusable dashboards and models) and build self-serve capabilities.
  • Drive automation of recurring processes (including AI where appropriate) with clear evaluation criteria and governance

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in a commercial analyst or similar role
  • Prior experience in a fast-paced environment such as management consulting or a startup.
  • 3rd level degree in IT/Mathematics/Statistics/Economics or related field.
  • Advanced SQL capabilities.
  • Advanced Excel and strong analytical modelling skills.
  • Dashboarding; experience using data visualisation tools such as Tableau to create interactive dashboards.
  • Commercial & financial acumen: Strong understanding of P&L drivers, unit economics, and performance levers
  • Problem framing & structured thinking: Turns ambiguous questions into clear hypotheses, analytical plans, and decision points; focuses on what will change an outcome.
  • Stakeholder influence & decision leadership: Aligns multiple stakeholders, manages expectations, and drives decisions through evidence, narrative, and facilitation.
  • Communication: Strong written + verbal storytelling; can produce clear narratives and present recommendations to senior stakeholders and external partners.
  • Technical analytics excellence: Advanced SQL; strong BI/dashboard design; solid modelling in Excel; builds scalable, reusable analysis.
  • Teamwork & collaboration - Works collaboratively across the Trading Squad and wider analyst community; shares context, contributes to collective problem-solving, supports others, and builds strong relationships to deliver better outcomes.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
SQLExcelanalytical modellingdashboardingdata visualisationP&L analysisscenario modellingsensitivity modellingautomationAI
Soft skills
problem framingstructured thinkingstakeholder influencedecision leadershipcommunicationstorytellingteamworkcollaborationrelationship buildingfacilitation