Associate Analyst
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 03 June 2025
Requisition ID: 30664988
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us.
Sainsburys – Associate Analyst, Data and Analytics – Good SQL experience, with Data Storytelling and Stakeholder Management skills. Hybrid working/London
Why join us:
Joining us at Sainsbury's means being part of a dynamic and innovative multi-channel, multi-brand business that serves millions of customers every day. With the largest loyalty scheme in the UK and cutting-edge digital platforms, we handle over 1.2 billion transactions annually, offering unparalleled volume, depth, and complexity of data.
As part of our Chief Data and Analytics Office, you'll have the exciting opportunity to tap into this vast data set, leveraging advanced technology and analytics to build scalable and high-performance products that deliver an amazing shopping experience to millions of people across the UK. In an inclusive and agile environment, you'll have the freedom to foster curiosity, experiment, and tackle real-world challenges, helping us unlock the true value of our data and drive impactful analysis that supports our strategic goals. Join us and be part of a team that values ownership, continuous improvement, and a human touch in everything we do.
What you’ll do:
As part of the Data & Analytics team, you will join the Commercial Analytics function, which plays a critical role in supporting the business across three key areas:
- Pricing & Promotion- Develops, enhances, and communicates a suite of tools and reports that provide deep insights into our price & promotional competitiveness in the market. These assets will also help define our value strategy, evaluate the return on investment and overall impact of pricing strategies, campaigns, and promotions.
- Range, Cost Optimisation & Agriculture- Introduces tailored business analyses and self-serve reporting tools to support strategic decisions around product range, assortment, space effectiveness, cost efficiency and agriculture initiatives.
- Strategic Analytics- Develops long term analytics capabilities that underpin major business transformation initiatives, helping to accelerate the evolution of our commercial decision making.
We have two exciting roles within the Price & Promotion and Range ,COGS & Agriculture Analytics teams. As an Associate Analyst, you’ll play a key role in shaping data-driven decisions that impact millions of customers.
In this role you will:
- Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across Sainsbury’s Food, General Merchandise, and Clothing Commercial teams, fostering strong partnerships to drive aligned, data-informed decision-making.
- Work closely with other Analytics & Engineering teams to streamline data access, creatively overcoming challenges and unlocking new opportunities.
- Design and implement innovative solutions from ETL pipelines and statistical analyses to machine learning models and dynamic dashboards, that support strategic commercial decision making.
- Explore and harness new data sources, generating fresh insights and actionable recommendations to tackle our most complex commercial challenges.
- With a keen eye for detail and a passion for data storytelling, you will translate complex concepts into digestible narratives that inspire action.
- Embrace our values of Owning It, Making it Better and Being Human.
What you need to know and show
- A highly numerate background. You may have a degree in mathematics, statistics or another analytical subject, or analytical work experience.
- SQL knowledge is essential. Experience using Python or R is helpful but not vital.
- Brilliant communication skills, having the ability to explain complex information in simple terms.
- An inquisitive mind, with the curiosity to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities and the ability to logically solve problems.
- High attention to detail.
- The ability to partner brilliantly with the business to understand their problems and deliver value, applying commercial acumen and communicating/connecting in a compelling way.
- Keen to learn and develop. Proactive about driving your career development and progression.
- A high level of team contribution – looking for opportunities to provide input and support across the wider analytics community.
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.
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 save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 5% 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 up to an additional week's 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, salary 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).
