Associate Analyst
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Data & Analytics
Closing date: 22 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400069729
Job Title: Associate Analyst
Location: London Store Support Centre & Home
Business Area: Data & Analytics – Customer & Loyalty
Job summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated Associate Analyst to join our Customer & Loyalty Analytics team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving impact through analytics, deriving insightful findings, and contributing to potential recommendations. This role requires a foundational understanding of coding languages, data visualisation, and analytical methodologies.
This role sits within the Nectar Partnerships Analytics team which focuses on delivering customer and marketing analytics and reporting for our Nectar coalition partnerships. You’ll help our partners understand their customers, their interactions with Nectar, and the purchases they make.
What we are looking for:
Analytical Thinking - Identify relevant metrics, analyse trends, and provide contextual insights to support business decisions.
Data Visualisation & Communication - Present findings using appropriate visualisations and confidently explain insights to stakeholders.
Project Ownership & Prioritisation - Manage analytical requests independently, assess scope, and balance ad-hoc demands with existing commitments.
Technical Proficiency - Apply foundational coding skills, understanding of relational databases, and perform quality checks on standardised code.
Methodological Knowledge – Have experience or ability to explain common analytical methodologies with accuracy and clarity.
Operational Awareness & Governance - Recognise data limitations, investigate anomalies, and adhere to data protection and security policies.
What we would like you to have:
- An innovative mind and a passion for solving problems.
- A university degree (2:1 or higher) with a numerate background is preferable but not mandatory.
- Basic knowledge of how to write and develop code (ideally SQL), interest in other tools such as Python.
- Knowledge of BI tools (e.g. Tableau) would be advantageous.
- Previous analytical experience showing application of insight to address business questions.
- Strong communication skills, a confident curiosity to explore and understand analytical problems, with evidence of how you share insights with colleagues to achieve actionable results.
Essential criteria:
- Experience or exposure to SQL— foundation knowledge of SQL with knowledge of functions, code structure and logic.
- Strong analytical thinking — ability to define analytical approaches, work with stakeholders, and deliver robust analysis.
- Clear communication — ability to translate complex methodology or results clearly to non‑technical audiences.
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so youll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, theres always the chance to try something new - whether thats 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, well 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 Sainsburys 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 5% 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, 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. 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). Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
