Food Commercial - Performance Analyst

Why join us

When you join the Commercial Analytics team at Sainsbury's, you become part of an extraordinary group of professionals who combine strategic insight with advanced analytics skills to drive meaningful change within our business. We are passionate about delivering exceptional results and take pride in our ability to leverage data and insights to enhance our brands and exceed customer expectations. As a Commercial Performance Analyst, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with a talented team, tackling challenging commercial problems and providing data-driven recommendations. We foster a friendly, collaborative, and innovative environment, where continuous learning and growth are encouraged. Join us to make a real impact in the retail industry and be part of our mission to help customers live well for less.

What you'll be doing

As a Commercial Performance Analyst in our Commercial Analytics team, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining advanced tools and reports that provide deep insights into our key performance indicators. Leveraging the rich and varied data at our disposal, you will combine your commercial insight, curiosity, and understanding of our business to provide recommendations and identify opportunities for improvement. Working on a wide range of Commercial Levers, such as Space, Range, Innovation, Pricing, and Promotions, you will develop new ETL processes, statistical analyses, machine learning models, and dashboards to support strategic commercial decision-making. Your creativity in leveraging new data sets and creating new sources of insight will help solve complex commercial problems and drive tangible recommendations. Collaborating with other data and analytics teams, you will access and integrate data, and carry out ad-hoc and deep-dive analyses, providing invaluable insights to cross-functional teams. Your ability to work at pace and to deadlines, along with your strong communication skills, will enable you to contribute effectively to the success of the team. With exposure to a modern tech stack including Snowflake, Alteryx, R, Python, and Tableau, you will be working with talented colleagues to deliver impactful solutions within our commercial division.

Who you are

As a Commercial Performance Analyst in our dynamic Commercial Analytics team at Sainsbury's, you are a highly skilled data professional with a passion for driving business success through strategic insights and advanced analytics. You thrive in leveraging comprehensive data sets to develop and maintain cutting-edge tools and reports that provide a deep understanding of key performance indicators. With your strong commercial acumen, curiosity, and understanding of our business, you offer valuable recommendations and identify opportunities for improvement across various commercial levers. Your expertise in statistical analysis, machine learning, and data visualization, combined with your proficiency in SQL and either R or Python, enables you to develop innovative solutions and automate processes, ultimately contributing to the success of our commercial division. As a strong collaborator and effective communicator, you excel at working in cross-functional teams and presenting complex analytical approaches to non-technical stakeholders. With a focus on delivering accurate and timely reports, you continuously seek feedback to enhance the robustness and usefulness of your insights. Your passion for data-driven decision-making and commitment to continuous learning make you a valuable member of our Commercial Analytics team.

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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 bonus of up to 10% of salary, 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).

Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves, anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.