Associate Analyst - Corporate Analytics
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Data & Analytics
Closing date: 07 August 2026
Requisition ID: 400072695
At Sainsbury’s, data sits at the heart of how we operate, innovate and serve our customers. Our Data & Analytics team is building a technically advanced, commercially focused and impactful capability, powering our Next Level Strategy and helping to create a Sainsbury’s powered by industry leading AI algorithms. We use data, technology and advanced analytics to drive better decisions across the business, from forecasting and optimisation to experimentation, personalisation and machine learning. With one of the richest retail datasets I n the UK and a portfolio spanning Sainsbury’s, Argos, Habitat and Nectar, the opportunity to innovate is huge. Here, you’ll tackle complex challenges at scale, create measurable impact and grow quickly alongside brilliant colleagues. People who thrive with us combine business understanding, technical expertise and curiosity, with a natural instinct for problem-solving. Join us and help shape the future of retail through data and AI.
Why join us
Joining the Corporate Analytics team at Sainsbury's offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of data-driven decision making, directly impacting customer experience and operational efficiency. As an Associate Analyst, you will have the chance to drive impactful projects, collaborate with diverse teams, and leverage cutting-edge tools like Tableau, SQL, and Python to translate data into actionable insights. With a focus on supplier performance, advanced reporting, and cross-functional collaboration, you will be part of a dynamic and collaborative team that values curiosity, innovation, and delivering tangible outcomes. This role provides a platform for continuous learning, professional growth, and the satisfaction of contributing to the success of one of the UK's leading loyalty programmes.
What you'll do
As an Associate Analyst in the Corporate Analytics team at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in driving impact through analytics by deriving insightful findings and contributing to potential recommendations. Your responsibilities will include identifying relevant metrics, analysing trends, and providing contextual insights to support business decisions. You will independently manage analytical projects using diverse datasets, ensuring clarity in briefs and delivering to a defined scope. Utilising your technical proficiency in SQL and Python, you will apply your skills to perform quality checks on standardised code and present findings using appropriate visualisations to stakeholders. Additionally, you will engage with stakeholders, build strong relationships, and adhere to data protection and security policies while recognising data limitations and investigating anomalies to ensure operational awareness and governance.
Who you are
As an Associate Analyst in Corporate Analytics at Sainsbury's, you are a proactive and analytical individual with a strong technical proficiency in SQL and ideally Python, along with experience in BI tools such as Tableau and AWS / Snowflake. Your ability to identify relevant metrics, analyse trends, and deliver insightful findings enables you to drive impactful business decisions and enhance operational efficiency. With strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset, you excel in engaging stakeholders, presenting complex insights in a clear and actionable manner, and contributing to cross-functional collaboration to achieve strategic objectives.
Essential Criteria
- Experience using SQL to extract, manipulate and analyse data.
- Experience analysing data to identify trends, metrics and actionable business insights.
- Experience creating data visualisations, dashboards or analytical reports and presenting findings to stakeholders.
- Experience working with relational databases and applying data quality or validation checks.
- Experience independently managing analytical projects or requests from brief through to delivery, balancing multiple priorities
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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 5% 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).
