Lead Analyst - Pricing & Promotions
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 14 January 2026
Requisition ID: 400045088
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.
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 a Lead Analyst in the Price & Promotion Analytics team at Sainsbury’s, you will play a pivotal role in unlocking value from one of the UK’s most dynamic retail data sets. You will lead and deliver complex analytical projects end to end, ensuring clarity of purpose, rigour of approach, and excellence in output quality. You will coach and develop junior analysts, shaping their technical capability, analytical thinking, and career progression. You will build strong relationships across Commercial, Product, Engineering and Data Science, acting as a trusted partner who challenges assumptions, proposes innovative solutions, and brings data driven clarity to strategic discussions. You will design and implement advanced analytical solutions, including ETL pipelines, statistical models, dashboards and machine learning approaches, and translate the resulting insights into compelling narratives that support and influence senior stakeholders across the organisation.
Who you are
As a Lead Analyst, you are an experienced and commercially astute analytics professional with a proven track record of delivering high impact insights that drive business change. You combine exceptional SQL and Python capability with strong communication and storytelling skills, enabling you to influence stakeholders at all levels. You demonstrate sound judgement, high attention to detail, and a proactive mindset that continually seeks to improve tools, processes, and ways of working. You thrive in ambiguous, fastmoving environments and excel at guiding teams toward clear, evidence based recommendations. You are a natural coach who develops others, elevates analytical standards, and contributes meaningfully to the broader analytics community.
Essential Criteria
- Strong numerate background (degree or equivalent analytical experience).
- Excellent SQL and strong Python expertise; experience with ML modelling, Snowflake, R, GitHub, and Jira is advantageous but not required.
- Proven experience leading or mentoring analysts, with a track record of developing capability.
- Demonstrable impact through delivering actionable insights and driving business change.
- Pricing experience (especially UK grocery) advantageous but not essential.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- High attention to detail and strong commercial judgement.
- Proactive approach to learning, development and team contribution.
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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).
