In Commercial Analytics we pride ourselves on combining both strategic insight with advanced analytics skills, delivering insight and recommendations that will change our business for the better. We want to be the most trusted retailer where people love to work and shop, and we provide the data and insight that helps us to achieve this mission.

The Commercial Analytics team are a friendly, collaborative and unashamedly nerdy lot, who get to see the impact of our efforts take shape in the changes we make within the business. We take pride in our innovation and ambition, sharing what we learn to benefit each other and to help our customers live well for less.

As a Price Analyst you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining a portfolio of advanced tools and reports which enable a deep understanding of our price competitiveness relative to the rest of the market and understanding the ROI, uplifts and cross-shop on price investment campaigns and promotions. You’ll have the unique opportunity to apply your analyses across both Argos and Sainsbury’s.

We want you to have a point of view, combining commercial insight, curiosity, and an understanding of our business to provide recommendations and identify opportunities for improvement.

You’ll have the chance to work with a modern and powerful tech stack of Snowflake, Alteryx, R, Python and MicroStrategy, while working with a team of talented colleagues driving impact at the heart of our commercial division.

More about the role:

• Develop new ETL processes, statistical analyses, machine learning models and dashboards which aid and support strategic commercial decision making
• Be creative in leveraging new data sets and creating new sources of insight to help solve our toughest commercial problems and make tangible recommendations
• Automate new and existing processes
• Work with other data & analytics teams in the business to access data, thinking outside the box to resolve blockers
• Carry out ad-hoc and deep-dive analyses
• Work in cross-functional teams to provide insight on strategic questions
• Ensure regular reports are accurate and delivered on time
• Work through the list of data requests you receive in an organised and timely manner
• Regularly seek feedback to improve the robustness and trustworthiness of your reports and ensure they remain useful to end users

More About you:

• An interest in how commercial decisions can be improved using data and analysis
• Able to work at pace and to deadlines, applying judgement to identify where an 80:20 approach is required
• Ability to propose and interpret KPIs and frameworks to identify opportunities and guide action
• Knowledge of statistical and machine learning techniques, their use-cases, trade-offs and pitfalls
• Essential: SQL and either R or Python
• Desirable: Tableau, Alteryx, Microstrategy, Power BI
• Understanding of databases and how to efficiently query information
• A strong team player able to work collaboratively with stakeholders within and outside the team using strong written and oral communication
• Able to communicate complex analytical approaches to a non-technical audience