Retail Events & Supply Analyst

Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK supermarket chain seeks a skilled professional to manage local events and drive operational efficiency through advanced data analysis and forecasting. You will collaborate cross-functionally while utilizing machine learning to improve customer outcomes. Ideal candidates should possess strong analytical skills, business acumen, and excellent communication abilities. This role offers a competitive salary and various employee benefits, including discounts and flexible working options.

Benefits

Colleague discount

Performance-related bonus up to 10%

Annual holiday allowance

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and business acumen.
• Experience in data analysis and demand forecasting.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Utilise machine learning and demand forecasting for event delivery.
• Analyse data to predict volume requirements for local events.
• Collaborate with supply chain and retail teams to ensure outcomes.

Skills

Data driven decision making

Brilliant communication and engagement

End to end problem solving

Continuous improvement

Attention to detail

Understanding of supply chain processes

Job description

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 10 December 2025
Requisition ID: 400041264

We believe in providing meaningful work and achieving a real work/life balance. Here, you'll find both. Our Supply Chain team is the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories to our millions of customers every day. We leverage insight and data to anticipate customer needs, ensuring they get what they want, when they need it. You'll be part of a team that is data-driven and judgement-focused, always the first to identify and address any issues or ambiguities. A culture of collaboration, customer obsession, and continuous improvement drives us to deliver market-leading product availability and operational excellence, and fuels our innovation. Our Supply Chain team calls for people who champion change, are customer-obsessed, data-driven, and excel at collaborating and communicating effectively - because those people can go a very long way.

Our Retail events team are responsible for activating local retail events across our entire UK estate of stores. You will analyse and interrogate generated forecasts, collaborating cross functionally and making data informed decisions to drive operational savings and better outcomes for our customer in the delivery of local events. To apply a commercial and customer focus to local events, driving improvements in KPIs and demonstrating cost savings across our cost lines.

This role can be based from any of our SSC locations and will require some ad hock weekend working

What you'll do

Here you will have opportunity to utilise cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning and demand forecasting systems, you will play a crucial role in analysing data, generating insights, and driving operational savings and better outcomes for customers during local events.

Your primary responsibility will be to utilise machine learning, demand forecasting, and store ordering systems to support the successful delivery of planned local events at various levels, including category, store, cluster, and region.

In addition;

• You will analyse forecast model outputs to accurately predict volume requirements and make informed decisions on store-level overrides when necessary.
• Collaborating with supply chain, logistics, and retail business units, you will build effective relationships to ensure the best outcomes for customers, while also proactively supporting stores experiencing significant trade impacts during local event periods.
• With your strong business acumen and analytical skills, you will influence and challenge stakeholders, contribute to continuous improvement targets, and drive operational savings.
• Additionally, you will provide support for ad hoc queries and actively work towards reducing the number of such activities by employing end-to-end problem-solving approaches.
• In this role, you will contribute to a customer-centric mindset, apply critical thinking in decision-making, and demonstrate strong communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

Who you are

You are a highly skilled and analytical professional with a strong business acumen and a customer-centric mindset. With your expertise in data analysis, demand forecasting, and store ordering systems, you have a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges involved in managing local events at a category, store, cluster, and regional level.

Your ability to generate insights and trends from data, coupled with your critical thinking and problem-solving skills, allows you to make informed decisions to drive operational savings and deliver better outcomes for the customer. With excellent communication and negotiation skills, you effectively collaborate with stakeholders across the business and build strong relationships, ensuring successful event planning and execution.

Essential skills needed

• Passionate and focused on the end-to-end customer, driving P&L value add and improved customer experience – essential
• Continuous improvement - seeks opportunities to simplify processes and remove inefficiencies to drive consistency in the way we work - essential
• Data driven decision making - demonstrates analytical skills to investigate issues and uses commercial mindset and judgement to deliver the best outcome for the customer and the business. Understanding where intervention does and doesn’t add value – essential
• End to end problem solving – considers the broader business context in which we operate, working cross functionality and gathering insights from different sources to define the root cause and solve problems – essential
• Brilliant communication and engagement – Ability to deliver brilliant communication business wide to deliver for our customers – essential
• Experience with AI systems, with an understanding of machine learning capabilities and benefits - desirable
• Understanding of supply chain processes and or demand planning/category management across grocery and food is highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of Retail operational processes preferred
• Strong attention to detail is critical with proven prioritisation, organisational and problem-solving skills

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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).