Insight and Analytics Manager

Asda; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Leeds seeks an Insight and Analytics Manager to deliver analysis and insights to support decision-making within commercial units. The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, experience with data tools, and the ability to collaborate across teams. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits, including a company car allowance and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

Company car allowance of £5,700

15% colleague discount

Free access to wellbeing services

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with a deep understanding of commercial metrics.
• Experience in delivering insights to multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to convey complex data insights clearly.
• Experience with data analytics interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Provide analytics support to commercial categories.
• Identify where analytics support is needed in business processes.
• Collaborate with Insight & Analytics team to deliver insights.
• Produce and present insights and dashboards.

Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Experience delivering insights to stakeholders

Strong communication skills

Ability to work collaboratively

Expertise in data handling tools

Knowledge of retail industry trends

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

PowerBI

Databricks

Kantar

Nielsen

Job description

Job Title

Insight and Analytics Manager

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Data Science

Closing Date

7 November 2025

Please be advised that this position requires attendance at Asda House in Leeds for a minimum of three days per week. We’re really looking forward to having you around!

The purpose of this role is to work as part of a small Insight & Analytics Team embedded within Commercial Business Units, delivering analysis and insight to key stakeholders, enabling decision making to drive business growth and putting customers first to deliver a step change in performance.

What You'll Love

• Provide visible Insight & Analytics support to assigned commercial categories, enacting clear ways of working and building trust through pace, presence and results
• Understand category issues and priorities and identify where analytics support is needed in key business processes
• Seek and implement opportunities for injecting data, analysis and insight into decision making, and support the optimisation of business processes.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across Insight & Analytics and allied functions such as Data Science to deliver insights to inform commercial decision making
• Adopt templates & frameworks to develop and deliver comprehensive outputs to share insights and recommendations with relevant stakeholders, presenting data-driven insights in a clear and concise manner.
• Produce and present insights, reports / dashboards to visualise any potential bespoke insight requirements as required.
• You will mentor, manage and guide our Insight Analysts. Providing guidance, support and training as required.
• Contribute to the Insight & Analytics community & culture through participation in team meeting and events

What You'll Need

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a deep understanding of commercial and customer metrics
• Experience in creating and delivering insight and recommendations to multiple stakeholders at varying levels of the organisation, and the ability to use story telling capabilities to bring this to life for commercial stakeholders
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex data insights in a clear & concise manner
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and comfortable talking to leadership teams.
• Expertise in using data handling & visualization tools including Excel, Powerpoint and PowerBI, and some level of familiarity with other data analytics interfaces such as Databricks.
• Be an advanced user of platforms and tools required to do the work i.e. customer insights platform, and experience using market data to support insights (e.g. Kantar, Nielsen)
• Knowledge of the retail industry and trends, and experience in retail data analysis

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves"