Insight Executive - Business Performance
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 19 January 2026
Requisition ID: 400015829
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.
Join the Business Performance arm of our Customer Insight team, where we partner with divisions across Sainsbury’s to put customers at the heart of every decision. Our team supports senior stakeholders and decision makers, providing actionable customer insights that drive strategic choices and shape the future of our business. You’ll collaborate with a range of Sainsbury’s and agency teams, ensuring a unified view of performance and the highest standards of data accuracy. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a dynamic, fast-paced environment where your work directly influences the direction of one of the UK’s leading retailers.
More About the RoleAs an Insight Executive in Business Performance, you’ll focus on two key pillars: Insights Generation and Data Integrity. Day-to-day, you’ll develop a deep understanding of customer, market, and commercial data—ranging from CSAT and Customer Mindsets to EPOS and Panel data. You’ll create impactful recommendations by confidently overlaying different data sources, joining the dots to deliver clear, actionable insights.
You’ll support and lead strategic projects across Sainsbury’s brands, building strong relationships with stakeholders such as Commercial Operations, Investor Relations, and Corporate Affairs. Your work will include managing market data queries, validating reports, refreshing data hierarchies, and rolling out self-serve tools to the business. Regular reporting on Sainsbury’s performance will be a core part of your remit, with a focus on ensuring data integrity and consistency across all outputs.
More About YouYou’re passionate about data integrity and thrive on analysing information from varied sources to uncover the ‘so what’. Strategic thinking and a hypothesis-led approach help you break down complex problems and deliver clarity to the business. You’re comfortable working with large data sets in a retail or FMCG context, and you know how to bring together first and third-party data, collaborating closely with agencies.
Attention to detail, organisation, and project management are among your strengths. You’re adept at pulling and validating data from different sources, ensuring it’s fit for purpose, and you can explain and interpret outputs in a simple, engaging way. You’re a confident communicator, able to address complex data challenges and drive continuous improvement, and you possess excellent cross-functional collaboration skills to streamline processes and enhance delivery performance.
Essential Criteria- Ability to analyse, explain, and interpret data or outputs in a clear and engaging manner, providing actionable recommendations.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and strong grasp of PowerPoint.
- Experience managing stakeholder data queries and data validation processes.
- Proven experience working with large data sets in a retailer or FMCG context, with demonstrable use of market or customer data (e.g., Kantar, Nielsen, CSAT).
- Ability to implement and manage self-serve data tools and platforms.
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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 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 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).
