Associate Analyst in London

hackajob is collaborating with Sainsbury's DTD to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work‑life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK, with one of the largest retail websites. So marketing here happens at scale. We move faster than you might expect, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360 and Insights. With more people shopping with us every week, there are more interactions, more moments to connect. And thanks to data and insight, we understand our customers in a way few others can. We work alongside incredible brand partners and some of the best agencies in the industry. So if you’re passionate about learning, growing and experiencing new teams, come and explore it all with us.

We are seeking a highly motivated Associate Analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving impact through analytics, deriving insightful findings, and contributing to potential recommendations. This role requires a strong understanding of coding languages, data visualisation and analytical methodologies.

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.
• End‑to‑End Project Ownership – Independently manage analytical projects using diverse datasets, ensuring clarity in briefs and delivering to a defined scope.
• Technical Proficiency – Apply SQL/Python skills, understanding of relational databases, and perform quality checks on standardised code.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication – Build strong relationships, set clear expectations, and present insights confidently to stakeholders.
• Operational Awareness & Governance – Recognise data limitations, investigate anomalies, and adhere to data protection and security policies.

What We Would Like You To Have

• A proactive personality, looking to deliver additional analytical value to our stakeholders, such as improving process efficiencies and experimenting with innovative methods to enhance analytical outputs.
• Experienced user of SQL and ideally Python. Previous experience of BI tools (e.g., Tableau or Microstrategy) and/or AWS / Snowflake would be advantageous.
• 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

• Strong analytical thinking: Ability to identify relevant metrics, analyse trends, and deliver contextual insights to support business decisions.
• Effective data visualisation and communication: Confidently present findings using appropriate visual tools and explain insights clearly to stakeholders.
• Technical proficiency: Experienced SQL skills, understanding of relational databases, and ability to perform quality checks on standardised code.
• Project ownership and prioritisation: Capable of managing analytical requests independently, assessing scope, and balancing ad‑hoc demands with existing commitments.

About The Team

The Nectar Customer Analytics team is a central hub for data‑driven decision making, supporting the Nectar programme and wider business initiatives through analytical expertise. We work on high‑impact projects that directly influence customer experience, commercial performance, and operational efficiency.

Our key focus areas include:

• Nectar Campaign creation and management – Lead the nectar campaigns (such as Collect for Christmas, Healthy Choices Challenge) from an analytics point of view. From initial forecasting and scoping of costs, to customer selection, comms, tracking and ultimately to review and recommendations as to how to improve the next iteration.
• Data playback and Year in Review – Champion the idea of playing customers' data back to them, including feeding back their nectar savings or healthy choice behaviour. Take the lead in the flagship ‘Year in Review’ campaign where we create a wealth of engaging stats for over 15 million customers.
• Improving Nectar App Engagement – Analysing user behaviour and app usage to uncover opportunities for enhancing digital engagement and customer satisfaction. Support new experimental activity such as new customer onboarding or tests on the display of the app.
• Advanced Reporting & Automation – Building scalable dashboards and automated workflows to streamline reporting and empower stakeholders with real‑time insights.
• Cross‑functional Collaboration – Working closely with teams across the business to solve complex problems and deliver actionable recommendations.

We’re a collaborative, curious, and impact‑driven team that thrives on turning data into meaningful outcomes. Joining us means working on real business challenges, using modern tools like Tableau, SQL, and Python, and helping shape the future of one of the UK’s most recognised loyalty programmes.

Benefits

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whatever 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.

Our benefits include:

• Colleague discount – saving 10 % on your shopping online and in‑store at Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat, with the discount regularly increasing to 15 % at points during the year.
• Salary‑related benefit – eligibility for a performance‑related bonus of up to 5 % of salary, depending on how we perform.
• Future‑financial security – pensions scheme and life cover.
• Annual holiday allowance with the option to buy up to an additional week.
• Well‑being benefits – season ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme, health cash plans and salary advance.
• Access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Maternity or adoption leave – up to 26 weeks’ pay.
• Paternity leave – up to 4 weeks’ pay.

Learn more about our benefits at (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).