Value and Pricing Support Analyst
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 03 February 2026
Requisition ID: 400046410
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves, anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Value and Pricing Support Analyst means being part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team that plays a crucial role in shaping the strategic frameworks and pricing capabilities of our Food Proposition. You will have the opportunity to provide valuable insights, drive commercial outcomes, and influence change across the organisation while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to make tangible recommendations and solve complex commercial problems. With a focus on innovation, stakeholder management, and continuous learning, we offer an environment where you can thrive, contribute to meaningful projects, and develop your expertise in the retail industry.
What you'll do
As a Value and Pricing Support Analyst at Sainsbury's, you will play a pivotal role within the Commercial Proposition team by providing strategic insights, recommendations, and decision-making support for the Food Propositional strategic frameworks and pricing actions. Your responsibilities will include supporting the development of pricing capabilities, influencing change across the organisation, and serving as a centre of knowledge on pricing analytics and insights. Additionally, you will collaborate with various teams to drive commercial outcomes, analyse market insights, and provide specialised pricing and range support to enhance pricing strategies across different channels. Your role will focus on leveraging data and trends to solve complex commercial problems, make tangible recommendations, and support commercial planning processes to implement strategic changes effectively.
Who you are
You are a highly analytical thinker with a deep understanding of the retail market and a passion for leveraging data insights to drive commercial outcomes. Your ability to analyse large and diverse data sources, extract meaningful insights, and provide strategic recommendations enables you to support the development of pricing strategies and commercial planning processes. With your expertise in data manipulation, stakeholder management, and hypothesis-led thinking, you play a crucial role in influencing change and optimising channel pricing to align with the company's strategic framework and drive business success.
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience in analytical capability, with the ability to manipulate large and diverse data sources and extract meaningful insights to drive commercial outcomes
- High proficiency in Excel and analytical tools, enabling effective data manipulation, pricing analysis, and the development of insight‑led recommendations.
- Strategic and hypothesis‑led thinking, supporting the development of pricing strategies and contributing to complex commercial problem‑solving.
- Experience in stakeholder management, with the ability to influence change across the organisation and collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams
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).
