As a Lead Analyst in the Price & Promotion Analytics team at Sainsbury’s, you will play a pivotal role in unlocking value from one of the UK’s most dynamic retail data sets. You will lead and deliver complex analytical projects end to end, ensuring clarity of purpose, rigour of approach, and excellence in output quality.
What you’ll do
You will coach and develop junior analysts, shaping their technical capability, analytical thinking, and career progression. You will build strong relationships across Commercial, Product, Engineering and Data Science, acting as a trusted partner who challenges assumptions, proposes innovative solutions, and brings data‑driven clarity to strategic discussions. You will design and implement advanced analytical solutions, including ETL pipelines, statistical models, dashboards and machine learning approaches, and translate the resulting insights into compelling narratives that support and influence senior stakeholders across the organisation.
Who you are
As a Lead Analyst, you are an experienced and commercially astute analytics professional with a proven track record of delivering high‑impact insights that drive business change. You combine exceptional SQL and Python capability with strong communication and storytelling skills, enabling you to influence stakeholders at all levels. You demonstrate sound judgement, high attention to detail, and a proactive mindset that continually seeks to improve tools, processes, and ways of working. You thrive in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments and excel at guiding teams toward clear, evidence‑based recommendations. You are a natural coach who develops others, elevates analytical standards, and contributes meaningfully to the broader analytics community.
Essential criteria
- Strong numerate background (degree or equivalent analytical experience).
- Excellent SQL and strong Python expertise; experience with ML modelling, Snowflake, R, GitHub, and Jira is advantageous but not required.
- Proven experience leading or mentoring analysts, with a track record of developing capability.
- Demonstrable impact through delivering actionable insights and driving business change.
- Pricing experience (especially UK grocery) advantageous but not essential.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- High attention to detail and strong commercial judgement.
- Proactive approach to learning, development and team contribution.
Benefits
- 10% colleague discount on online and in‑store shopping (increasing to 15% at certain points).
- Pension scheme and life cover.
- Performance‑related bonus up to 10% of salary.
- Annual holiday allowance plus option to buy an additional week.
- Season ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, and access to discounts from many retailers.
- Employee assistance programme.
- 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
- Access to a wide range of benefits – more information on www.sainsburys.jobs (eligibility may apply).
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