Supplier Analytics Analyst

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA Contract type: Permanent Business area: Data & Analytics Closing date: 22 July 2026 Requisition ID: 400069804

At Sainsbury’s, data sits at the heart of how we operate, innovate and serve our customers. Our Data & Analytics team is building a technically advanced, commercially focused and impactful capability, powering our Next Level Strategy and helping to create a Sainsbury’s powered by industry leading AI algorithms. We use data, technology and advanced analytics to drive better decisions across the business, from forecasting and optimisation to experimentation, personalisation and machine learning. With one of the richest retail datasets I n the UK and a portfolio spanning Sainsbury’s, Argos, Habitat and Nectar, the opportunity to innovate is huge. Here, you’ll tackle complex challenges at scale, create measurable impact and grow quickly alongside brilliant colleagues. People who thrive with us combine business understanding, technical expertise and curiosity, with a natural instinct for problem-solving. Join us and help shape the future of retail through data and AI.

Based in the Sainsbury’s Office in Holborn, we’re recruiting an ambitious Analyst to work closely with decision makers in Nectar360 & Argos to drive our media and consultancy proposition to our GM clients. Nectar360 is the company behind Nectar, the UK’s largest loyalty programme, with 18m members across the country.

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 proposing and developing a new commercial opportunity roadmap, developing new insight propositions to our Argos supplier clients. You will also be providing world-class customer insights to our big tech and GM strategic clients within our media business. 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 your people and analytical leadership skills.

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

What will you be doing?

• Use your experience and knowledge to identify and propose innovative analytical solutions leveraging both Nectar and Argos data across a range of areas.
• Providing in depth analysis and presenting back to our strategic tech and GM clients within the media business.
• Proposing and developing brand new Insight and Analytical commercial propositions for our Argos suppliers.
• Work collaboratively with the Retail Consultancy and Client Service teams to grow relationships and revenue from within our client base.
• Work closely with a multi-disciplined team of retail and market research experts, to help our clients better understand customer behaviour.
• You’ll develop strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and clients, and be an ambassador of your team within Nectar and clients.
• Use your strong communication skills to demonstrate the value of Nectar360 services and products.
• Ensuring output is always accurate and actionable, with appropriate technical expertise and recommendations.

What we would like you to have:

• Strong experience, ideally in a client or stakeholder facing analytics role.
• Experience in retail / consumer insight.
• Proven ability to explore business performance and deliver analysis that has commercial impact.
• Excellent communication skills with proven success of collaborating with internal stakeholders and clients.
• Strong experience of customer databases and analytical tools (including SQL, VBA, R or Python).
• A proven track record of process improvement or automation.
• Experience of customer data and the loyalty industry is desirable.
• Experience of SKU level analytics is desirable.
• Experience of developing outputs in a BI Tool such as Tableau is desirable.
• Experience of optimal application of statistical and data science techniques is desirable (regression models, clustering, statistical tests).

This role will suit you if:

• You’re looking to grow your career in a fast paced, commercial environment.
• You’re developing your skills through exposure to interesting work and increasingly complex commercial projects.
• You enjoy implementing ideas from inception to delivery
• You thrive on excellence all the way. More than just attention to detail, you need to be ready to recommend the best techniques as well as deliver accurately and on time.
• 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.

What we offer

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

You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Data & Analytics community at Sainsbury’s. We have Big Data with a great culture and huge learning and development opportunities.

Flexible working and job share conversations are encouraged. 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.

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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so youll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, theres always the chance to try something new-whether thats 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, well 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 Sainsburys 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 10% 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).