Sainsbury's
Analyst - Pricing & Promotions
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Commercial Analyst – Pricing & Promotions Team
Sainsbury’s – Data & Analytics
Data is the backbone of Sainsbury’s: from driving innovation to shaping retail’s future with leading AI algorithms. Here, you’ll leverage our industry-leading datasets—spanning Sainsbury’s, Argos, Habitat, and Nectar—to deliver measurable impact at scale. Our Technically advanced, commercially focused Data & Analytics team pioneers groundbreaking solutions: from forecasting & optimisation to personalisation & ML.
Collaborating with trading, value strategy, and engineering, you’ll help create a retail landscape where data makes every decision—Nellie, our CEO, calls it "rewiring the brain of food tech"—and you’ll be at its core.
About the Role
The Opportunity
As an Analyst in the Commercial Analytics team, you’ll use data and advanced techniques to drive strategy, pricing, and promotions across all channels—delivering real-world impact. Fit with our Pricing & Promotions team, you’ll help refine pricing algorithms, exploit promotional trends, and develop data-driven tools that optimise market responsiveness.
You’ll work on cutting-edge challenges: testing new models, automating insights, and interpreting complex data to influence pricing for millions of customers. Even better, you’ll stay curious, collaborative, and incisive alongside a team that respects business acumen and technical aptitude. This isn’t just a role—it’s shaping the future of retail.
Key Responsibilities
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- Craft high-quality analytical solutions influencing Sainsbury’s pricing strategy, from product ranges to day-to-day pricing decisions.
- Measuring and analysing initiatives via robust metrics and post-implementation reviews, proving impact for stakeholders.
- Building and scaling automated analytics tools to streamline insights from data.
- Partnering with trading, value strategy, data science, and engineering—bridging technical rigor with commercial needs.
- Driving data storytelling: simplifying complexity to inspire decisions via clear, compelling narratives.
- Exploring new data sources to enhance strategies and evolve roadmaps (snowflake, ML, GitHub? You’ll need to become fluent).
- Thriving in a fast-paced environment: balancing multiple priorities while delivering sharp, commercially-aligned outcomes.
Key Requirements
- Numeracy: A degree or equivalent experience in maths, economics or analytics.
- Technical Fluency
- Advanced SQL knowledge.
- Foundational Python (ideal if paired with ML experience).
- Preference given to familiarity with Snowflake, GitHub, and Jira (some experience optional).
- Strategic Mindset
- Strong grasp of statistical reasoning, adaptable to structured or ambiguous problems.
- Discomfort for chaos, love for pattern-finding and problem-solving.
- Commercial Perspective: Ability to simplify complexity into insights that drive outcomes.
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Storytelling skills: ability to translate data into action through clear communication.
- Agile & Resourceful
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Why Work With Us?
- Flexibility & Growth: Choose shift patterns that suit your rhythm—flex working schemes are woven into the fabric of how we operate. Our central data function offers:
- Access to modern tools & peer networks (like you’ve never feared P&L sheets).
- Development paths: mentorship and courses for progress—everyone loves learning here.
- Perks & Rewards
- Employee Discounts: 10% off Sainsbury’s, Argos, Habitat & New Look—rising to 15% at peak times.
- Pension & Life Cover: secure your future.
- Performance Bonus: Eligible for up to 10% of your salary based on company performance.
- Wellbeing: 25 holiday days per year, plus options to buy an extra week. Salary advances if you need a leg-up. Health cash plans, cycle-to-work schemes, and discounts from hundreds of retailers.
- Time Off: Up to 26 weeks’ pay (maternity/adoption), 4 weeks’ pay (paternity).
- Take advantage: medical insurance, mental health support, and childcare vouchers if needed.
- Culturally inclusive and supportive—innovative systems to develop potentials.
Join us! Your skill set belongs in Sainsbury’s data-driven future—where technology and business smarts go hand-in-hand.
(Further benefits and structures here: Sainsbury’s Careers. )
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