Strategic Projects & Analytics Lead

Tesco PLC; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Private medical cover

Pension plan (matched)

Birthday leave

Job summary

dunnhumby is seeking a commercially minded strategic thinker to lead priority initiatives and translate complex data into actionable plans. You’ll shape a portfolio of projects, drive cross‑functional collaboration, and develop compelling business cases that prioritise value, customer impact and risk management.

You’ll guide the approach from problem framing to implementation, empowering teams across the business while maintaining momentum on multiple priorities.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering strategy, transformation, analytics or consulting projects from diagnosis to implementation.
• Strong commercial and analytical judgment including business cases and market sizing.
• Confident programme leadership managing multiple workstreams and risks.
• Clear, influential communication turning evidence into senior-level recommendations.
• Effective stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic projects from scoping through mobilisation and handover.
• Shape a sequenced portfolio of initiatives with objectives, milestones and decision points.
• Develop business cases balancing value with customer and colleague impact.
• Turn evidence into decisions via financial analysis, scenario modelling and trend analysis.
• Establish success measures and benefits-realisation frameworks to track outcomes.

Skills

Strategy delivery

Program leadership

Commercial judgment

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Job description

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead strategic projects from problem definition and scoping through analysis, recommendation, mobilisation and handover.
• Shape a sequenced portfolio of initiatives with clear objectives, ownership, milestones, dependencies and decision points.
• Develop business cases and options, balancing commercial value with customer and colleague impact, effort, feasibility and risk.
• Turn evidence into decisions through market and problem sizing, financial analysis, scenario modelling, trend analysis and performance diagnostics.
• Establish measures of success, including KPIs, value cases and benefits-realisation frameworks that track outcomes and adoption.

You’ll also facilitate cross-functional working sessions, help stakeholders resolve ambiguity and maintain oversight of delivery risks and dependencies. As an in-house strategic adviser, you’ll create concise, leadership-ready materials and contribute to strategic planning, competitive intelligence and the translation of long-term priorities into measurable plans.

You’ll be a commercially minded strategic thinker who can create structure from ambiguity, work confidently with imperfect information and maintain momentum across multiple priorities.

Your Key Experience

• Experience delivering strategy, transformation, analytics or consulting projects, from initial diagnosis through to recommendations and implementation.
• Strong commercial and analytical judgement, including business cases, financial analysis, market sizing or scenario modelling.
• Confident programme leadership, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies and delivery risks.
• Clear and influential communication, turning complex quantitative and qualitative evidence into succinct recommendations for senior audiences.
• Effective stakeholder management, building trusted relationships and aligning colleagues across varied functions and levels of seniority.

Experience in retail media, advertising, retail, technology or consulting would be valuable. Familiarity with operating-model design, change management, data governance, responsible AI, automation or digital transformation would also be useful.

You’ll Thrive If You…

• Enjoy solving complex, loosely defined business problems.
• Can move comfortably between detailed analysis and the wider strategic picture.
• Bring together different perspectives and create commitment to action.
• Look for reusable approaches that help successful ideas scale across a business.

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, helping the world's most ambitious retailers and brands put the customer at the heart of every decision. With nearly 3,000 experts across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, we partner with iconic businesses like Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro to turn data into growth, innovation and measurable value for their customers. Tesco Media is the ultimate media partner to brands. Built on unrivalled customer insight, it's a media owner with soul, scale, and storytelling power. Tesco Media helps brands and agencies connect meaningfully with customers, drive creative effectiveness, and grow at the point of purchase.

At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.

We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.

We won’t just meet your expectations. We’ll defy them. So you’ll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you’d expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off. We live it every day - with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process – please let your recruiter know what adjustments would help.

UK Benefits

• Flexible benefits and healthcare: A grade-dependent flexible allowance, with the option to select private medical cover and add eligible partners or dependants.
• Financial protection: Life assurance, income protection and critical illness cover, subject to the relevant scheme terms.
• Pension: A defined contribution pension scheme with up to 7.5% matched funding.
• Time off: 25 days' holiday in addition to public holidays, the option to buy up to five additional days, loyalty leave and a day off for your birthday.
• Wellbeing and lifestyle: Employee assistance, wellbeing resources, car leasing, technology purchasing, Cycle to Work and other selectable benefits.
• Car allowance: Available for G4+ roles.