Associate Analyst

Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A major retail company in London seeks an analytical professional to join its Nectar 360 team. The role involves deriving customer insights from data, leading analytical projects, and communicating findings to stakeholders. A background in analytics and experience with tools like Excel, SQL, and Tableau are essential. Ideal for those aiming to enhance their analytical skills in a dynamic, client-focused environment. This position offers a blend of office and home working options.

Benefits

Colleague discount across brands

Pension plan

Special offers on gym memberships

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data analysis with advanced Excel skills.
• Hands-on experience with BI tools for dashboard/report creation.
• Strong presentation skills to communicate insights to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer data to provide impactful insights and recommendations.
• Deliver end-to-end analytical projects using various datasets.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance analytics and improve efficiencies.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Analytical thinking

SQL/R/Python

Dashboard creation

Education

Bachelor’s in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Tableau

Power BI

AWS

Snowflake

Job description

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Nectar 360 Ltd
Closing date: 27 January 2026
Requisition ID: 400045749

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Everything our Nectar team does is powered and fuelled by data — and by great relationships with some of the UK’s favourite brands. The Nectar 360 team focuses on developing loyalty programmes, turning amazing data into something that makes a difference, traditional media and digital. It’s like an agency-within-a-retailer, and retail media is crucial. The culture might not be what you expect either, because there’s no set-up quite like this one. The team is a real priority because it’s connected to everything the business does and drives profitability. It’s where you can take risks, learn from them and be recognised.

Do you take satisfaction in seeing your recommendations implemented in the ‘real world’? Are you analytically creative and motivated by new challenges? Do you have a passion for working with data to drive insight and improve customer understanding?

When you join us you will be providing world-class customer insights for our clients. Utilising the Nectar data to understand how we can personalise the customer experience and drive business impact, this role is a fantastic opportunity to apply and develop your analytical capabilities.

The role is based at Holborn on average 1-2 days a week, with home working expected the remainder of the time. Occasional travel to our FMCG clients is required.

What will you be doing?

• You’ll analyse Nectar, Sainsbury’s and supplier data to maximise understanding of customer behaviour and provide impactful insights and recommendations. You’ll take responsibility for delivering end-to-end analytical projects, utilising multiple datasets such as Sainsbury’s transactional data, ranging data & contextual customer profiling.
• You’ll build your analytical knowledge as you help deliver analytical projects on a large variety of topics, such as customer journeys, segmentation, ranging and promotions.
• You’ll take a proactive role in delivering increasing revenue for Nectar360, such as experimenting with new methods and data to enhance analytics, and improving our analytics efficiencies.
• You should be able to look beyond the data to find relevant and actionable insights that are useful and interesting to stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for making your insight actionable; explaining complex analytics to non-technical audiences and making clear recommendations on how stakeholders should be using the insight you’re providing.
• You’ll be expected to confidently & independently create well formatted PowerPoint documents and Tableau dashboards that explain the analysis that you have generated, presenting findings to internal & external stakeholders in an engaging and enthusiastic manner.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver innovative solutions – Ability to break down problems logically and apply sound analytical thinking
• Proven experience in data analysis using Excel and SQL/R/Python - advanced formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP and at least one programming language, SQL, R, or Python, to clean, transform, and interpret large datasets
• Hands-on experience with BI tools e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Business Objects for dashboard/report creation and familiarity with cloud data platforms AWS, Snowflake for data extraction and visualization.
• Strong communication skills with evidence of presenting data-driven insights to non-technical stakeholders and collaborating in cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time.
• Bachelor’s2:1 or above) in a numerate discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or equivalent quantitative field.

This role will suit you if:

• You’re looking to grow your career in a fast paced, commercial environment.
• You’re looking to work autonomously in a client-facing environment. You’ll take accountability for your analytical projects and build strong collaborative partnerships with both Sainsbury’s suppliers and internal teams.
• You thrive on excellence all the way. You will need to deliver high-quality insight with attention to detail.
• You’re looking for variety and new challenges. We work with a wide range of contacts across Nectar360 and Sainsbury’s, providing analytical advice to multiple business units. No two questions are the same, so you’ll need to be analytically creative whilst thinking on your feet to understand the real question we need to answer and implementing the best analytical techniques to do so.

What we offer

• Colleague discount across the multi-brands – Sainsbury’s,Argosand Habitat
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

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'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related target bonus of up to 5% of salary (which may vary for Nectar360), 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, 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. 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).

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.