Associate Analyst - Corporate Analytics

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.

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.

What you'll do:

• Drive impact through analytics by deriving insightful findings and contributing to potential recommendations.
• Identify relevant metrics, analyse trends, and provide contextual insights to support business decisions.
• Independently manage analytical projects using diverse datasets, ensuring clarity in briefs and delivering to a defined scope.
• Utilise technical proficiency in SQL and Python to perform quality checks on standardised code and present findings using appropriate visualisations to stakeholders.
• Engage with stakeholders, build strong relationships, and adhere to data protection and security policies while recognising data limitations and investigating anomalies.

Who you are:

• A proactive and analytical individual with strong technical proficiency in SQL and ideally Python, along with experience in BI tools such as Tableau and AWS / Snowflake.
• Ability to identify relevant metrics, analyse trends, and deliver insightful findings to drive impactful business decisions.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset, excelling in engaging stakeholders and presenting complex insights in a clear and actionable manner.
• 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.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. 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 including colleague discount, pensions scheme, life cover, performance-related bonus, annual holiday allowance, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.