Opportunities in London & Milton Keynes

If you’re studying for a numerically based degree and thinking about your placement year for 2022/23, there’s nowhere better than Sainsbury’s.

As one of the biggest companies in the UK, we are a multi-brand, multi-channel retailer, consisting of Sainsbury’s, Nectar, Argos, Tu Clothing, Habitat and a large scale, wholly owned retail bank. With 45 million customer interactions weekly, we are a data rich organisation. The numbers we deal with are big, complex, shifting, and crucial to driving our business forward.

This is paid work with a FTSE 100 business, and a real foot in the door for only the most ambitious students.

More about the role

On the Sainsbury’s Analytics Internship, as part of your degree you’ll spend a year in one of the analytics divisions across our business. This could be: Marketing, Digital, Tech, Finance, Retail and Commercial Operations.

Across the year you will:

• Use tools such as R, Python, SAS, MicroStrategy, Unica, Snowflake, AWS to access and interrogate our data to solve problems
• Build a business understanding and develop judgement and communication skills to share work in a way that will ensure it has an impact on the business
• Carry out analysis and reporting, and more advanced analytical problems too
• Develop an analytical mind-set required to produce actionable insight
• Experience working in a team
• Work collaboratively with other teams in the business, and contribute to strategic discussions and planning meetings
• Practice and grow at presenting your work to others
• Become an excellent communicator with the ability to explain complex problems to an unfamiliar audience
• Gain knowledge of database structures and relational databases

What we're looking for

• A broad numerical background; you will currently be reading a degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or similar 
• The desire and potential to develop technical skills in analytics, data & science 
• Teamwork and collaboration skills are essential  
• While it's not essential, any experience of any form of coding would be beneficial
• Excellent communication skills and able to present to a range of stakeholders
• Time management and organisational skills
• An ability to translate academic thinking and skills to real world scenarios and quickly develop the understanding and ability to manipulate large and disparate datasets
• The desire and aptitude to learn new programming languages and software to a sophisticated level, building your skillset as an analyst to be able to process complex data efficiently and accurately
• An ability to take ownership of, understand and maintain multiple day to day processes within the team whilst maintaining good attention to detail.

In return you'll get

• A competitive salary
• Colleague Discount across our multi-brands including Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat 
• Holiday Allowance
• Special Offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
• Full year programme of inductions and immersions into our wider business
• Ample resources at your fingertips – from software and colleagues to external agencies – you’ll have everything you need to achieve your objectives and we will help you all the way
• Help in navigating our business, and all other potential career journeys too, to help you make the right choice when you graduate

Flexible working conversations are encouraged. Across our multi-brands, we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture.
If you’re reading this, even if you’re not 100% sure you’re there with your experience, we’d still love to hear from you.