Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sainsbury's is a digital-led UK retailer that offers a wide range of products and services to meet customer needs. The Lead Analyst – SQL role focuses on leading the delivery of optimized analytical outputs and supporting key projects to enhance analytical capabilities within the Argos teams.
Responsibilities
- Play an active role in scoping and developing analytical outputs that support action-based decision making and evolves to be fit for the future, providing one version of the truth for our colleagues
- Plan for and action the delivery of new KPIs as our Commercial, Supply Chain and Logistics operations transform
- Resolve risks in delivery, ensuring continuity whilst leading the associate analysts in work to improve efficiency & consolidation
- Provide holistic analytical support across the Argos business, playing a key role in planning and developing new solutions to meet business priorities
- Communicate and cascade best practise and quick wins internally and across the business teams, flexing your style to get traction within and outside your team
- Build trust by effectively communicating with business stakeholders to support changes, providing insight and guidance
- Work following agile delivery methods at pace, with a 'learn and fail' quick mindset
- Identify and implement opportunities to simply the operating model for stakeholders and the team
- Show and encourage a deep passion for continuous learning and seek to provide and share knowledge
Skills
- Strong numerate background (degree or equivalent analytical experience)
- Excellent SQL and Ms Excel/VBA skills
- Proven experience leading or mentoring analysts, with a track record of developing capability
- Demonstrated impact through delivering actionable insights and driving business change
- Strong strategic analytical thinking
- Strong stakeholder‑management and influencing skills
- Understanding of end-to-end project management and problem-solving techniques
- Understanding of corporate strategy and how functional priorities align
- Work following agile methodology and principles in a fast-paced high-pressure environment
- Ability to think both strategically and tactically, supporting the input of key learnings as outputs are planned and reviewed
- Works with the relevant teams to ensure that everyone's needs are known and ensures customer outcomes are at the forefront of decision making
- Working knowledge of Sainsburys analytic al tools and data sets
- Experience working in a multi-channel business within a Commercial or Analytical role, designing & scoping solutions to meet business needs
- The implementation of change and improvement within an analytical environment
- Interpersonal and influencing skills to secure commitment and support to solutions inside and outside of the team
- Anticipating next steps and future risks and opportunities within your area and making action plans to address them
- Demonstrate ability to identify opportunities, solutions and priorities and an adaptable approach to resolving problems
- A passion for continuous learning and development, seeking new ideas and best practice
- Strong cost-savings, growth opportunities and risk management mind-set
Benefits
- Colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year
- Pensions scheme and life cover
- Performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform
- Annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday
- Season ticket loans
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health cash plans
- Salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day)
- Access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers
- Employee assistance programme
- Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave
- Up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave
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