Lead Analyst - Commercial Analytics - SQL

Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative firm as a Lead Analyst in Commercial Analytics, where you will leverage cutting-edge technology to transform vast data sets into actionable insights. This role offers the chance to work within a high-performing team, driving commercial understanding and development. You will utilize your expertise in SQL, Python, and R to create impactful analyses that inform strategic decisions. With a focus on collaboration and creativity, you will help shape the future of analytics in a dynamic retail environment, ensuring that your contributions resonate with millions of customers across the UK.

Benefits

Colleague discount

Pensions scheme

Life cover

Performance-related bonus

Annual holiday allowance

Cycle to work scheme

Health cash plans

Salary advance

Employee assistance programme

Maternity and paternity leave

Qualifications

• Proven history of delivering actionable insights through analytics.
• Experience with SQL and either R or Python is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of analysts to deliver analytical value for commercial divisions.
• Develop and maintain advanced tools and reports for price competitiveness.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Data Storytelling

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Tools

Snowflake

MicroStrategy

Job description

Lead Analyst - Commercial Analytics - SQL

303458

FULL_TIME

Other

Permanent

Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd 33 Holborn, London Greater London, EC1N 2HT

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us. 

 

Argos Analytics - Lead Analyst – Commercial Analytics – SQL, Python or R

London / Hybrid working

We’re a business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All this equals over 1.2 billion transactions a year, presenting a volume, depth, and complexity of data that few can match. 

We don’t think we’re exaggerating when we say we have the most exciting data set in the country. We’ve got data from billions of transactions for our teams to play with. From it, we build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology that give our customers an amazing experience. In an inclusive, agile environment, you’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and solve real-world challenges. And you’ll get to see the output of your work in the hands of millions of people across the UK.

In the Argos Analytics team we’re embarking on a major transformation and you’ll stretch the imagination of what the power of data and insights can bring to how we do things. This is a role within Argos Commercial Analytics and will help drive Commercial understanding and development for Argos. 

As a Lead Commercial Analyst you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining a portfolio of advanced tools and reports which enable a deep understanding of our price competitiveness relative to the rest of the market and understanding the ROI, uplifts and cross-shop on price investment campaigns and promotions. We want you to have a point of view, combining commercial insight, curiosity, and an understanding of our business to provide recommendations and identify opportunities for improvement. 

You’ll have the chance to work with a modern and powerful tech stack of Snowflake, R, Python and MicroStrategy, while working with a team of talented colleagues driving impact at the heart of our commercial division. 

A bit about the role

• You will be an Analytics Lead and part of a high calibre team of Analysts, supported by Analytics Managers in exploiting Argos’s data assets to establish the realisation of Argos’s strategy. As a lead in this team, you will carve out a backlog of work to deliver.
• Your primary focus will be on delivering analytical value for our Commercial divisions.
• You will have a great analytical foundation, and we want you to think about how you apply that in the context of Argos’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.
• You will develop & maintain relationships with your stakeholders, championing a collaborative approach to requirements gathering and the formation of compelling analysis. While staying confident in questioning a proposed strategy or approach to analysis.
• We 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 – understanding the purpose of your analysis, and which decisions the business is looking to inform.
• You will 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 in turn inspire action.

What you need to know and show

• A proven history of delivering actionable insight and demonstrable business change through the application of analytics.
• Essential experience: Excellent SQL and either R or Python
• 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 this data.
• An inquisitive mind, with the curiosity to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities and the ability to logically solve problems. Experience of retail and the analytical challenges retail presents is helpful, but not essential.
• Whenever possible, automate repetitive tasks to save time and focus on projects that add value.
• Be creative in leveraging new data sets and creating new sources of insight to help solve our toughest commercial problems and make tangible recommendations 
• Knowledge of statistical and predictive techniques, their use-cases, trade-offs and pitfalls
• Keen to learn and develop. Pro-active about driving your career development and progression.
• 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.
• A high level of team contribution – looking for opportunities to provide input and support across the wider analytics community.
• An interest in how commercial decisions can be improved using data and analysis
• Ability to propose and interpret KPIs and frameworks to identify opportunities and guide action

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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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. 

 

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply). 

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Lead Analyst - Commercial Analytics - SQL

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 11 May 2025
Requisition ID: 303458

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us.

Argos Analytics - Lead Analyst – Commercial Analytics – SQL, Python or R

London / Hybrid working

We’re a business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All this equals over 1.2 billion transactions a year, presenting a volume, depth, and complexity of data that few can match.

We don’t think we’re exaggerating when we say we have the most exciting data set in the country. We’ve got data from billions of transactions for our teams to play with. From it, we build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology that give our customers an amazing experience. In an inclusive, agile environment, you’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and solve real-world challenges. And you’ll get to see the output of your work in the hands of millions of people across the UK.

In the Argos Analytics team we’re embarking on a major transformation and you’ll stretch the imagination of what the power of data and insights can bring to how we do things. This is a role within Argos Commercial Analytics and will help drive Commercial understanding and development for Argos.

As a Lead Commercial Analyst you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining a portfolio of advanced tools and reports which enable a deep understanding of our price competitiveness relative to the rest of the market and understanding the ROI, uplifts and cross-shop on price investment campaigns and promotions. We want you to have a point of view, combining commercial insight, curiosity, and an understanding of our business to provide recommendations and identify opportunities for improvement.

You’ll have the chance to work with a modern and powerful tech stack of Snowflake, R, Python and MicroStrategy, while working with a team of talented colleagues driving impact at the heart of our commercial division.

A bit about the role

• You will be an Analytics Lead and part of a high calibre team of Analysts, supported by Analytics Managers in exploiting Argos’s data assets to establish the realisation of Argos’s strategy. As a lead in this team, you will carve out a backlog of work to deliver.
• Your primary focus will be on delivering analytical value for our Commercial divisions.
• You will have a great analytical foundation, and we want you to think about how you apply that in the context of Argos’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.
• You will develop & maintain relationships with your stakeholders, championing a collaborative approach to requirements gathering and the formation of compelling analysis. While staying confident in questioning a proposed strategy or approach to analysis.
• We 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 – understanding the purpose of your analysis, and which decisions the business is looking to inform.
• You will 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 in turn inspire action.

What you need to know and show

• A proven history of delivering actionable insight and demonstrable business change through the application of analytics.
• Essential experience: Excellent SQL and either R or Python
• 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 this data.
• An inquisitive mind, with the curiosity to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities and the ability to logically solve problems. Experience of retail and the analytical challenges retail presents is helpful, but not essential.
• Whenever possible, automate repetitive tasks to save time and focus on projects that add value.
• Be creative in leveraging new data sets and creating new sources of insight to help solve our toughest commercial problems and make tangible recommendations
• Knowledge of statistical and predictive techniques, their use-cases, trade-offs and pitfalls
• Keen to learn and develop. Pro-active about driving your career development and progression.
• 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.
• A high level of team contribution – looking for opportunities to provide input and support across the wider analytics community.
• An interest in how commercial decisions can be improved using data and analysis
• Ability to propose and interpret KPIs and frameworks to identify opportunities and guide action

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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).