<p>Based in the Sainsbury’s Office in Holborn, we’re recruiting an ambitious Analyst to work closely with decision makers in Nectar360 & Argos to drive our media and consultancy proposition to our GM clients. Nectar360 is the company behind Nectar, the UK’s largest loyalty programme, with 18m members across the country.</p><p>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?</p><p>When you join us you will be proposing and developing a new commercial opportunity roadmap, developing new insight propositions to our Argos supplier clients. You will also be providing world-class customer insights to our big tech and GM strategic clients within our media business. 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 your people and analytical leadership skills.</p><p>The role, reporting into a Lead Analyst, is based at Holborn 1- 2 days a week with home working expected the remainder of the time. Occasional travel to our clients is required.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>What will you be doing?</strong></p><ul><li>Use your experience and knowledge to identify and propose innovative analytical solutions leveraging both Nectar and Argos data across a range of areas.</li><li>Providing in depth analysis and presenting back to our strategic tech and GM clients within the media business. &nbsp;</li><li>Proposing and developing brand new Insight and Analytical commercial propositions for our Argos suppliers. &nbsp; &nbsp;</li><li>Work collaboratively with the Retail Consultancy and Client Service teams to grow relationships and revenue from within our client base.</li><li>Work closely with a multi-disciplined team of retail and market research experts, to help our clients better understand customer behaviour.</li><li>You’ll develop strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and clients, and be an ambassador of your team within Nectar and clients.</li><li>Use your strong communication skills to demonstrate the value of Nectar360 services and products.</li><li>Ensuring output is always accurate and actionable, with appropriate technical expertise and recommendations.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>What we would like you to have:</strong></p><ul><li>Strong experience, ideally in a client or stakeholder facing analytics role.</li><li>Experience in retail / consumer insight.</li><li>Proven ability to explore business performance and deliver analysis that has commercial impact.</li><li>Excellent communication skills with proven success of collaborating with internal stakeholders and clients.</li><li>Strong experience of customer databases and analytical tools (including SQL, VBA, R or Python).</li><li>A proven track record of process improvement or automation.</li><li>Experience of customer data and the loyalty industry is desirable.</li><li>Experience of SKU level analytics is desirable.</li><li>Experience of developing outputs in a BI Tool such as Tableau is desirable.</li><li>Experience of optimal application of statistical and data science techniques is desirable (regression models, clustering, statistical tests).</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>This role will suit you if:</strong></p><ul><li>You’re looking to grow your career in a fast paced, commercial environment.</li><li>You’re developing your skills through exposure to interesting work and increasingly complex commercial projects.</li><li>You enjoy implementing ideas from inception to delivery</li><li>You thrive on excellence all the way. More than just attention to detail, you need to be ready to recommend the best techniques as well as deliver accurately and on time.</li><li>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.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>What we offer &nbsp;</strong></p><ul><li>Colleague discount across the multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat &nbsp;</li><li>Holiday allowance &nbsp;</li><li>Bonus scheme &nbsp;</li><li>Pension plan &nbsp;</li><li><p>Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more &nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p></li></ul><p> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><span data-teams="true">#DataAndAnalytics</span></p><p><span data-teams="true">#Analytics</span></p><p><span data-teams="true">#LI-CM1</span></p>