Analyst - Business Performance
- Recruiter
- Argos
- Location
- Milton Keynes
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 08 Dec 2018
- Closes
- 12 Dec 2018
- Sectors
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Sainsbury's Argos is one of the biggest retailers in the UK and we're investing significantly in our insights and analytics capabilities in order to bring customers to the heart of our decision making. We care about customers and want to delight them and exceed their expectations. Consequently our business decisions are driven by data and insight so that we can work hard to understand, empathise and engage with our customers to build real connections with them at every opportunity.
We are building a world class Insights team with a broad and diverse set of technical expertise, from coding to qualitative research, but all united with the same core set of skills: curiosity, an analytical mindset, drive, tenacity, and a desire to influence commercial decisions from the perspective of customers. We value that everyone brings something unique and individual to the team. You will be joining a supportive, growing, and committed team and will also benefit from access to the broader data and analytics community at Sainsbury's Group.
In a nutshell
This role is an analyst within Business Performance (part of the Customer and Market Insight function), a newly formed team working to create, collate and compile complex and varied sources of data to inform key business decisions from a customer perspective.
The Business Performance team will be working on some of the most important projects within the business, presenting customer-based insight and recommendations to Senior Leadership and key Steering Groups.
This analyst role will report into an Insight Manager, working collaboratively to understand key requirements (sometimes from a simple initial question) and how data can derive the insight needed. Strong analytical skills are a must with multiple data sources needing to be interrogated and relevant data extracted and manipulated.
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled analyst to work within a high-performance team, working on diverse and engaging products with a clear goal to use customer data to create actionable insight.
What I need to do
You will need to understand the context and background to a business question, determine suitable methodologies and tools to extract and analyse data from single or multiple sources to answer that question and support the Insight Manager in using the data to create responses that clearly articulate insight and actions.
How I will succeed
You will be a strong analyst, you will be adept at understanding the problems at the heart of business questions and able to determine and execute the most appropriate analytical methodologies to answer it. You will work collaboratively with the Insight Manager to iterate and explore the data further, helping to communicate your findings clearly to a non-technical, senior leader, audience.
What I need to know
To succeed in this role, you will need:
Strong analytical skills, you will have experience in high paced business environments in turning, often vague, business questions into a piece of analysis that will answer the problems behind the original question.
A good ability at understanding a business question and selecting one or more analytical techniques and data sources to obtain as accurate and robust answer as possible
Strong technical skillset across multiple platforms including Advanced Excel & Microsoft office skills, SQL, R, Python, visualisation software such as Tableau, PowerBI or Qlikview. Digital toolsets such as Adobe Reporting & Analytics or Google Analytics.
Experience of analysing Customer Data, be familiar with common pitfalls in analysing customer data and how to apply rigorous methodologies to get to a robust answer.
What I need to show
To succeed in this role, you will be:
An agile and innovative thinker,
Astute and creative, with a logical and methodical approach to problem solving
Passionate about not just data but finding the what, why and how.
An excellent communicator, credible and articulate, with excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
Comfortable pulling the interesting story from complex datasets and presenting your findings in an engaging manner
Able to demonstrate the ability to explain your findings to Senior levels within the organisation (up to Senior Manager level), good stakeholder management capability.
Resources available to me
Support from your direct team and a data management team in place to obtain and manage your datasets.
Support from the overall Sainsbury's Argos CMI team
Support from the wider business and analytical teams as required.
What decisions I can make
You are accountable for prioritising your work. Ensuring that the methodologies and data used, will provide accurate answers to questions that can be trusted. Knowing when enough analysis is sufficient, when limited further value can be obtained.
We are building a world class Insights team with a broad and diverse set of technical expertise, from coding to qualitative research, but all united with the same core set of skills: curiosity, an analytical mindset, drive, tenacity, and a desire to influence commercial decisions from the perspective of customers. We value that everyone brings something unique and individual to the team. You will be joining a supportive, growing, and committed team and will also benefit from access to the broader data and analytics community at Sainsbury's Group.
In a nutshell
This role is an analyst within Business Performance (part of the Customer and Market Insight function), a newly formed team working to create, collate and compile complex and varied sources of data to inform key business decisions from a customer perspective.
The Business Performance team will be working on some of the most important projects within the business, presenting customer-based insight and recommendations to Senior Leadership and key Steering Groups.
This analyst role will report into an Insight Manager, working collaboratively to understand key requirements (sometimes from a simple initial question) and how data can derive the insight needed. Strong analytical skills are a must with multiple data sources needing to be interrogated and relevant data extracted and manipulated.
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled analyst to work within a high-performance team, working on diverse and engaging products with a clear goal to use customer data to create actionable insight.
What I need to do
You will need to understand the context and background to a business question, determine suitable methodologies and tools to extract and analyse data from single or multiple sources to answer that question and support the Insight Manager in using the data to create responses that clearly articulate insight and actions.
How I will succeed
You will be a strong analyst, you will be adept at understanding the problems at the heart of business questions and able to determine and execute the most appropriate analytical methodologies to answer it. You will work collaboratively with the Insight Manager to iterate and explore the data further, helping to communicate your findings clearly to a non-technical, senior leader, audience.
What I need to know
To succeed in this role, you will need:
Strong analytical skills, you will have experience in high paced business environments in turning, often vague, business questions into a piece of analysis that will answer the problems behind the original question.
A good ability at understanding a business question and selecting one or more analytical techniques and data sources to obtain as accurate and robust answer as possible
Strong technical skillset across multiple platforms including Advanced Excel & Microsoft office skills, SQL, R, Python, visualisation software such as Tableau, PowerBI or Qlikview. Digital toolsets such as Adobe Reporting & Analytics or Google Analytics.
Experience of analysing Customer Data, be familiar with common pitfalls in analysing customer data and how to apply rigorous methodologies to get to a robust answer.
What I need to show
To succeed in this role, you will be:
An agile and innovative thinker,
Astute and creative, with a logical and methodical approach to problem solving
Passionate about not just data but finding the what, why and how.
An excellent communicator, credible and articulate, with excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
Comfortable pulling the interesting story from complex datasets and presenting your findings in an engaging manner
Able to demonstrate the ability to explain your findings to Senior levels within the organisation (up to Senior Manager level), good stakeholder management capability.
Resources available to me
Support from your direct team and a data management team in place to obtain and manage your datasets.
Support from the overall Sainsbury's Argos CMI team
Support from the wider business and analytical teams as required.
What decisions I can make
You are accountable for prioritising your work. Ensuring that the methodologies and data used, will provide accurate answers to questions that can be trusted. Knowing when enough analysis is sufficient, when limited further value can be obtained.