Analytics Manager in London

Joining Sainsbury's as a Commercial Analytics Manager means being at the forefront of a dynamic and innovative environment where your work directly impacts strategic commercial decision-making. With access to one of the richest datasets in UK retail and cutting-edge technology tools, you will lead a talented team of analysts to deliver valuable insights and drive measurable value across the organisation. Embracing a collaborative and inclusive culture, we prioritise work-life balance, flexibility, and continuous learning, providing you with the opportunity to contribute to the transformation of a truly AI-powered business while making a difference in the real world.

As the Commercial Analytics Manager at Sainsbury's, you will lead a team of analysts in delivering strategic insights, tools, and recommendations that directly impact decision-making by senior leaders across the organisation. You will own the analytics roadmap for your domain, working closely with stakeholders to translate complex business questions into actionable solutions that drive measurable value. Your role will involve building and enhancing analytical products, developing new data products and solutions using statistical analyses and machine learning, and championing best practices to ensure transparent, extensible, and lasting solutions. Your ability to connect analysis to business value, lead a high-performing team, and drive commercial outcomes through data-driven insights will be key to your success in this role.

As a Commercial Analytics Manager at Sainsbury's, you are a strategic and analytical thinker with a strong commercial mindset and a passion for solving complex business problems using data-driven insights. With your leadership skills and ability to connect analysis to tangible business value, you excel in guiding a team of analysts to deliver impactful recommendations that drive strategic decision-making across the organisation. Your expertise in translating stakeholder priorities into measurable value, building analytical products, and leveraging modern data tooling sets you apart as a key player in advancing Sainsbury's analytics capabilities and contributing to the company's data-led culture.

Essential Criteria

• Experience leading, coaching and developing high-performing analytics teams.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate data and insight into business value.
• Proven experience influencing senior stakeholders and shaping decision-making.
• Ability to solve complex, ambiguous business problems and turn them into actionable analytics roadmaps.
• Excellent data storytelling and communication skills, tailoring insights to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong hands-on SQL skills.
• Strong hands-on Python skills.
• Practical experience applying statistics, experimentation/test-and-learn and machine learning techniques.
• Experience building analytical products, tools or data solutions that drive business outcomes.
• Experience applying AI, LLMs or machine learning solutions to real-world commercial challenges.

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 20% 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, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to 10k, 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.

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 in 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.