Associate Analyst
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Nectar 360 Ltd
Closing date: 27 January 2026
Requisition ID: 400045749
Do you take satisfaction in seeing your recommendations implemented in the ‘real world’? Are you analytically creative and motivated by new challenges? Do you have a passion for working with data to drive insight and improve customer understanding?
When you join us you will be providing world-class customer insights for our clients. Utilising the Nectar data to understand how we can personalise the customer experience and drive business impact, this role is a fantastic opportunity to apply and develop your analytical capabilities.
The role is based at Holborn on average 1-2 days a week, with home working expected the remainder of the time. Occasional travel to our FMCG clients is required.
What will you be doing?
- You’ll analyse Nectar, Sainsbury’s and supplier data to maximise understanding of customer behaviour and provide impactful insights and recommendations. You’ll take responsibility for delivering end-to-end analytical projects, utilising multiple datasets such as Sainsbury’s transactional data, ranging data & contextual customer profiling.
- You’ll build your analytical knowledge as you help deliver analytical projects on a large variety of topics, such as customer journeys, segmentation, ranging and promotions.
- You’ll take a proactive role in delivering increasing revenue for Nectar360, such as experimenting with new methods and data to enhance analytics, and improving our analytics efficiencies.
- You should be able to look beyond the data to find relevant and actionable insights that are useful and interesting to stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for making your insight actionable; explaining complex analytics to non-technical audiences and making clear recommendations on how stakeholders should be using the insight you’re providing.
- You’ll be expected to confidently & independently create well formatted PowerPoint documents and Tableau dashboards that explain the analysis that you have generated, presenting findings to internal & external stakeholders in an engaging and enthusiastic manner.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrated ability to deliver innovative solutions – Ability to break down problems logically and apply sound analytical thinking
- Proven experience in data analysis using Excel and SQL/R/Python - advanced formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP and at least one programming language, SQL, R, or Python, to clean, transform, and interpret large datasets
- Hands-on experience with BI tools e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Business Objects for dashboard/report creation and familiarity with cloud data platforms AWS, Snowflake for data extraction and visualization.
- Strong communication skills with evidence of presenting data-driven insights to non-technical stakeholders and collaborating in cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time.
- Bachelor’s degree (2:1 or above) in a numerate discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or equivalent quantitative field.
This role will suit you if:
- You’re looking to grow your career in a fast paced, commercial environment.
- You’re looking to work autonomously in a client-facing environment. You’ll take accountability for your analytical projects and build strong collaborative partnerships with both Sainsbury’s suppliers and internal teams.
- You thrive on excellence all the way. You will need to deliver high-quality insight with attention to detail.
- You’re looking for variety and new challenges. We work with a wide range of contacts across Nectar360 and Sainsbury’s, providing analytical advice to multiple business units. No two questions are the same, so you’ll need to be analytically creative whilst thinking on your feet to understand the real question we need to answer and implementing the best analytical techniques to do so.
What we offer
- Colleague discount across the multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
- Holiday allowance
- Bonus scheme
- Pension plan
- Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Data & Analytics community at Sainsbury’s. We have Big Data with a great culture and huge learning and development opportunities.
Flexible working and job share conversations are encouraged. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture. If you’re reading this, even if you’re not 100% sure you’re there with your experience, we’d still love to hear from you.
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