Range Analyst in London

As a Range Analyst, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our category strategy, making data-driven decisions, and identifying opportunities that drive customer satisfaction and business growth. You'll have the chance to work with diverse stakeholders including buying, product development, merchandising and supply chain to land your outputs effectively and contribute to the success of our ranges.

To do this role brilliantly, you’ll need to be strategic, analytical and excellent at project management, with a passion for the customer. We are currently recruiting 2 roles, one permanent and one 12m+ fixed term contract.

What you'll be doing

• Set strategic range objectives for your category and translate them into more detailed actions plans for range and merchandising delivery.
• Use a diverse range of data sources to identify range optimisation opportunities and provide recommendations that drive growth.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of your category’s ranging activity, co-ordinating multiple different stakeholders to ensure your projects adhere to timelines and budget.
• Conduct post implementation performance reviews of major range changes to continue to learn and iterate.

Your ability to problem-solve, prioritise opportunities, communicate effectively, and manage projects of varying scope will contribute to the success of our range offerings.

What you need to show

• Strategic thinking and understanding of customer and commercial insights and trends.
• Data led decision making, using a variety of qualitative and quantitative sources.
• Organised and efficient with proven experience of successful project management of varying size and scope.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to work with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritise customer needs and conflicts effectively.
• Excellent analytical skills with advanced knowledge of Excel.
• Knowledge of merchandising software e.g. JDA desirable.

Essential criteria:

• Demonstrable ability to evaluate commercial opportunities and quantify value, including building and validating financial benefits from changes.
• Demonstrable advanced analytical capability, including analysing large datasets using Excel to inform clear, data led recommendations.
• Proven experience managing complex projects end to end, coordinating multiple stakeholders, milestones and dependencies to deliver to agreed timescales and outcomes.
• Demonstrable ability to communicate insight and recommendations clearly, including influencing stakeholders through structured storytelling and implementation plans.

Resources available to me

• Commercial Data (EDW (internal EPoS data), Aimia Self Serve, JDA, Nielsen).
• Support from Food Commercial teams (including categories, Commercial Operations, Field Team).
• Category dedicated Trading Finance.
• Broad supplier base with multiple data/insight sources.
• Internal customer insights team.
• Company tools and processes (e.g. RangeComm, Ranging Tool, Product Development Framework).
• Ranging & Merchandising Centre of Excellence.
• Category focussed Merchandiser & Centralised Senior merchandising team.
• Centralised JDA technical training and support.

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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day.
• We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover.
• 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 additional holiday.
• 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, pay 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.
• If you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, and you will also be eligible for private healthcare.
• 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).