Senior Analyst / Lead Analyst - Advanced SQL / Analytical Techniques

Senior Analyst / Lead Analyst – Advanced SQL / Analytical Techniques

Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract Type: Permanent
Business Area: Sainsbury’s Tech
Closing Date: 10 February 2025
Requisition ID: 289088

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

As a Senior Analyst / Lead Analyst you will:

• Sit within the Retail Transformation Analytics team, a high calibre team of 7 analysts, supported by an Analytics Manager in exploiting Sainsbury’s data assets to establish the realisation of Sainsbury’s strategy.
• As a lead in this team you will manage 1 direct report, supporting them in their professional development as well as role modelling best practice to the rest of the team.
• Be primarily focused on delivering analytical value for our retail division, ensuring Sainsbury’s continuing to develop a profound understanding of our operations.
• Have a great analytical foundation, and we want you to think about how you apply that in the context of Sainsbury’s – getting to know how we operate is key so you can propose and recommend the approach that should be taken to fulfil data analysis.
• Work on projects requiring varying analytics approaches, from building predictive models to defining and creating metrics as well as measuring the impact of trials, all providing stakeholders with recommendations to inform their decisions.
• Develop & maintain relationships with your stakeholders, championing a collaborative approach to requirements gathering and the formation of compelling analysis. While remaining confident in questioning a proposed strategy or approach to analysis.
• Move at pace, whilst still delivering high quality, accurate, professional outputs that land the real truths that sit within the data. You will proactively ensure you are always in touch with the ‘Why’ behind every project – how your analysis will be used, and which decisions the business is looking to inform.
• Take pride in your work, have brilliant attention to detail, and enjoy presenting findings with empathy towards an audience with a limited technical background. Possessing the ability to translate complex concepts into easily digestible stories with data, which inspire action.
• Embrace our values of owning it, making it better and being human.

What you need to know and show:

• A highly numerate background. You may have a degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics or another analytical subject, or analytical work experience.
• Advanced SQL knowledge is essential. Python or R experience is advantageous but not vital.
• Line management or experience within mentoring roles is required.
• Evidence of advanced analytical and Data Science techniques such as predictive analysis (e.g. regression, random forest models, time series etc).
• Advanced analytical skills and a proven history of delivering actionable insights and demonstrable business change through the application of analytics.
• A passion for high quality data storytelling. We love data and deriving value from it. The key to the value is in being able to build and tell compelling stories based on the data that’s been interrogated.
• An inquisitive mind, with the curiosity to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities and the ability to logically solve problems.
• The ability to partner brilliantly with the business to understand their problems and deliver value, applying commercial acumen and communicating/connecting in a compelling way.
• Pro-active about driving your career development and progression.

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.

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