• Job Description

  Req#: 222754

  Insight Consultant – Nectar360 (FMCG Retail Consultancy)

  What is the role about?

  Based in Holborn Sainsbury’s Support Centre, an exciting opportunity for a Retail Consultant has become available to join the fun, energetic & collaborative Data & Insight team, part of the Nectar360 team. You will be responsible for managing the delivery of retail consultancy projects to FMCGs, and generating opportunities, leading this yourself or in a supporting role, in order to achieve an overall team target.

  So who are Nectar360?

  Nectar360 offers supplies comprehensive multi-channel marketing solutions in and around Sainsbury's stores and online. We have a unique approach to store and customer planning. Using Nectar, the UK's most comprehensive customer database, our teams conduct advanced analysis to uncover new insights about shopper interactions and brands.

  You can find more information on the Nectar360 website - http://www.nectar360.co.uk/

  What you will be doing:

  Manage supplier relationships by developing key account strategies

  • Identify consultancy opportunities in key accounts through:
    • Ability to frame client issues/questions, overlaying the Sainsbury’s trading context, and scoping the necessary analysis techniques needed to solve them
    • Identifying insight portfolio gaps across clients within the account group
    • Having a clear understanding of the client business & the category in which they operate
    • Having a detailed knowledge of the best practice consultancy
  • Ensure regular contact and engagement with clients; including regular onsite time with strategic Clients, where applicable
  • Commercial responsibility for Retail Insight revenue for business unit
  • Budget includes SIP, consultancy, market research and new data initiatives
  • Work closely with commercial team to develop & implement consultancy strategies that align to the overall client annual plan
  • Lead the development of the key client senior contact strategy across consultancy

  Align to Sainsbury’s priorities

  - Understand and align to the Sainsbury’s strategy and what this means for our clients

  - Understand the role of trading insights and other central functions

  Manage deliveries to ensure high impact consultancy projects

  - Responsible for the delivery of assigned consultancy projects

  - Project manage the delivery of larger, projects and delegate and coordinate and support analysts and market research teams as required to deliver against agreed timings and budgets, working cross functionally to get what you need

  - Use appropriate processes and document templates to ensure that all parties are briefed correctly

  - Stay abreast of new developments in FMCG, retail and insight analytics thought industry journals and appropriate conferences and events

  - Work with Planning and Commercial teams to add value and provide solutions for clients, working closely with the innovation team when solutions require automation

  Support the Sainsbury’s Insight Platform helpdesk and training plan

  • Learn the SIP system and support clients through training and manning the helpdesk

  Support raising the visibility of Retail insight within Nectar360

  • Develop effective cross-functional relationships with key decision-makers within the business
  • Work closely with planning function to ensure all Nectar360 opportunities are shared

  What we would like you to have:

  • Equivalent work experience
  • Collaborative and comfortable communicating with internal colleagues and external clients
  • Experience of working in customer insights using analytics and market research or a marketing function – Retail, FMCG or consultancy background preferred
  • Relationship building skills with clients
  • Data literate and able to turn data into a narrative
  • A passion for “the customer”
  • Well organised with attention to detail
  • Able to present effectively
  • Self-motivated with an understanding of analytics
  • High energy, proactive and a team player with a ‘can do’ attitude

  Why Nectar360?

  When you join the Nectar360 team you’ll need to be ready for some varied and challenging work, and to be part of a business where nothing stays the same for long. You’ll work alongside brilliant people who will inspire, support and challenge you to push boundaries both for you and the business.

  You’ll develop through stretching goals, targeted development and exposure to interesting work and people. Working for Nectar360, you will be working with the UK’s best known FMCG brands such as such as Mondelez, Heineken, Mars and many other large FMCG’s, through to smaller, start-up manufacturers.

  We believe people are at their best and their happiest when they are using their strengths. We will work with you to work out what those strengths are and how best to use them to achieve what you need to, and more, and to go on to do great things within Nectar360, and beyond.

  We offer a competitive salary, bonus scheme, and pension.

  Qualifications

  We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
  
  Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related target bonus of up to 5% of salary (which may vary for Nectar360), depending on how we perform.
  
  Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
  
  Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
  
  Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

  Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.

  Responsibilities

  We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Everything our Nectar team does is powered and fuelled by data — and by great relationships with some of the UK’s favourite brands. The Nectar 360 team focuses on developing loyalty programmes, turning amazing data into something that makes a difference, traditional media and digital. It’s like an agency-within-a-retailer, and retail media is crucial. The culture might not be what you expect either, because there’s no set-up quite like this one. The team is a real priority because it’s connected to everything the business does and drives profitability. It’s where you can take risks, learn from them and be recognised.

• About the company

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