Lead Insight Consultant - Delivery
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Nectar 360 Ltd
Closing date: 18 July 2025
Requisition ID: 400003837
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.
So who are Nectar360?
Nectar360 offers clients comprehensive multi-channel marketing solutions in and around Sainsbury's and Argos stores and online. We have a unique approach to store and customer planning. Using Nectar, the UK's most comprehensive customer database, their 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/
Why join us
Joining the Nectar360 team at Sainsbury's means embarking on a journey of innovation and collaboration within the dynamic world of data and insight. As a Lead Insight Consultant, you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients, including leading FMCG and GM brands, shaping impactful projects and delivering high-quality solutions that drive business success. With a focus on growth, development, and leveraging individual strengths, Nectar360 provides an environment where you will be supported by talented colleagues and empowered to achieve your full potential while making a real difference in the industry.
What you'll do
As the Lead Insight Consultant for Delivery & Propositions at Nectar360, you will be at the forefront of ensuring projects are properly resourced and delivered on time and to the highest standards of quality and insight. Your role will involve overseeing project progress, tracking timelines, and ensuring that all work leaving the team is meticulously quality-checked for accuracy. Additionally, you will lead and develop a team of Insight Consultants, providing commercial and delivery leadership, as well as guiding them in identifying consultancy opportunities and developing insight strategies aligned with client annual plans. Your expertise in category management, consumer insights, and analytics will be instrumental in driving impactful consultancy projects and developing innovative propositions in collaboration with Sainsbury's and Nectar360, all while staying abreast of industry developments and raising the visibility of Data & Insights within the organisation and with clients.
Who you are
As a Lead Insight Consultant for Nectar360, you are a highly experienced professional with a background in category management, consumer insights, analytics, or marketing, ideally within the Retail or FMCG industry. Your strong people skills and relationship-building abilities enable you to effectively lead a team of consultants, drive commercial opportunities, and deliver high-impact consultancy projects that provide valuable insights and recommendations to clients. With your eye for detail, passion for numbers, and excellent project management skills, you play a key role in ensuring the delivery of exceptional quality and accuracy in all aspects of insight consultancy and proposition development.
Essential Criteria
- Experience of working in category management, consumer insights, analytics or marketing function
- Experience with insight practices and/or other customer data sets and tools e.g. Nielsen, Kantar, IRI
- Line management experience
- Able to communicate and present effectively at all levels
- Experience of working to monthly targets across multiple channels and financial management
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 20% 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, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
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).
