Data Analyst - Marketing Science

Job description

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:

- An annual bonus scheme which you can achieve up to 3.5% of base salary.

- Privilegecard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco.

- A retirement savings plan - 4%-7.5% contribution rate

- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay

- Buy As You Earn Scheme

- Save As You Earn Scheme

- Tesco Car Purchase Scheme (provided by Alphabet).

- Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank

- Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses

About The Job

About the Measurement & Optimisation Team in Marketing:

Our purpose is to leverage cutting edge data tools & methodologies to drive and foster a scientific mind set in the marketing team, empowering them in delivering better communications across all channels and devices, at the optimum cost to Tesco.

Tesco has great history in making powerful use of data, but the current environment is ripe with further opportunities that we need to take advantage of most notably in the area of Marketing effectiveness, which is our area of focus.

We have internal customers, and we deal with them like we would with clients: we listen to them, understand their pain, what they are trying to achieve, and use our expertise to deliver the best possible experience for them sometimes it means we give them what they need rather than what they want.

We want to establish a data democracy in Tesco, empowering people, shortening the path to Insight, and dealing with the complexity in the background so that our clients do not have to.

But there is no doubt that ours is a really complex world. Tesco touches many consumers many times, and has access to huge amounts of data. We need to be rigorous, and employ sound science to deliver unambiguous and robust insight in a dynamic, and at times chaotic, data environment.

It is complex, but that is precisely what excites us.

Our endgame is to change the way marketers make decisions within the company we are fostering the use of the scientific method in testing hypothesis, running experiments, reviewing and reproducing results and sharing with our peers in the company to benefit from the large Tesco data community.

In a word, we want to usher a new age of rationality in Tesco Marketing.

We are now at the point where we have a real shot at it join us if that makes you as excited as it does us!

Main Responsibilities

The following personal qualities will be key in securing the role:

·  A rational and curious individual, driven by a desire to uncover the truth, and an uncompromising belief in the scientific method.
·  Strong communication skills that allow you to explain your area to lay people.
·  Strong influencing skills that allow you to get people on board.
·  You show resilience and tenacity you are able to see projects through in a matrix environment with multiple stakeholders.
·  Creative, analytical, objective, and rational you will be able to make recommendations to our clients, and inspire confidence, becoming a trusted source of insight.
·  Flexible, able to plan and organise, responsive, self-starter, etc

Specific responsibilities will be dynamic, and hopefully you will shape your impact and how you get involved, but the following points are a good overview of the role's key responsibilities:

·  Support the Marketing Scientist in implementing the testing roadmap, ensuring we can maintain our momentum.
·  Work with the Marketing Scientist to conduct pre and post-test analysis, making sure we test the areas most likely to yield big benefits for Tesco.
·  Work with the Business Intelligence team to inject science in the reporting tools, making it easier to make sense of the complexity of our environment for example, add a standard deviation variable to our reporting to help users identify a variance that is outside of the expected range.
·  Work with the Data Management Team to integrate Data Science projects into our Data Processes and produce the right information for the Business Intelligence team.
·  Network with the rest of the data & analytics community in Tesco to share experience, identify and contribute to best practice, become a part of the data revolution.

Ideal Candidate

·  You are degree educated in a numerical or scientific discipline.
·  Strong SQL skills, experience of Hadoop environment.
·  Ability to take an analysis brief and deliver above and beyond, identifying additional opportunities along the way.
·  Experience with statistical software such as R or SAS a bonus.

About the Company

About Tesco

Our vision here at Tesco is to serve Britain's shoppers a little better every day.

We want to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are online or in our stores.

We have achieved great success with our online operation, but have even more ambitions for it in order to take it to the next level, we have invested in a centre of Digital Excellence in Farringdon, London.

We have the purpose to deliver all capabilities as a digital product, applying to our internal tools the same sound design principles we use to develop for our customers.

We aim to hire excellence we have to deal with a volume of data few other companies have access to, but that comes with a great level of complexity. We are looking for curious individuals who want to make a mark and contribute to ground breaking work.

We aim for excellence in how we treat our employees as well if you join the team, you will have access to a great package and benefits.

The position will be based at our Digital Innovation Centre in Farringdon, London, with the occasional trip to our Head Office in Welwyn Garden City.

Desired profile

Ideal Candidate

·  You are degree educated in a numerical or scientific discipline.
·  Strong SQL skills, experience of Hadoop environment.
·  Ability to take an analysis brief and deliver above and beyond, identifying additional opportunities along the way.
·  Experience with statistical software such as R or SAS a bonus.