Data/Insight/Business Analyst- Business Support

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

I work with business teams to develop and provide credible data and insight analysis to support key decision on changes to the operating model.

Main Responsibilities

·  Providing relevant and credible information to support Business Support project managers / operating model
·  Analysis / ad-hoc requests, using efficient data mining and modelling techniques from appropriate data sources.
·  Presenting data in an objective, compelling but simple way, that is appropriate to the audience, so that it is clear what the data is showing which supports or dispels misconceptions / opinions and enables the right decisions to be made (e.g. department profitability)
·  Determining the benefits of change work and providing recommendations on how best to proceed. Measuring the actualised benefits after a change has been made
·  Developing tools / models to identify deviations from the norm, which provide the business with unique pieces of insight that can be translated to business improvements - for example the barcode scanning model which highlights products that take longer to scan at the checkouts, impacting throughput
·  Identifying the necessary changes needed to maintain the integrity of productivity data sources and opportunities for development to provide accurate data in the most efficient way
·  Linking with colleagues across the business to share models / information and understand all data sources available that could be used to support analysis including Customer, Finance and People data
·  Following the Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

Ideal Candidate

Ideally the successful candidate will have the following skills and experience:

·  Communication skills
·  Analytical and insight skills
·  Technical skills - Data Warehouse, MS Office including visual basic Excel skills
·  Planning and organising
·  Financial Acumen: cost and benefit tracking
·  Experience of data analysis and data modelling
·  Good degree from a recognised institution (preferably in Mathematics, a Science or similar)
·  Technology such as SAS, Matlab/Python, SQL, Business Intelligence tools, Hadoop
·  Regression modelling
·  Optimisation/Linear Programming

About the Company

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues. It's part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we're proud to have been accredited as one of Britain's Top Employers again this year.

We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.

Desired profile

Ideal Candidate

Ideally the successful candidate will have the following skills and experience:

·  Communication skills
·  Analytical and insight skills
·  Technical skills - Data Warehouse, MS Office including visual basic Excel skills
·  Planning and organising
·  Financial Acumen: cost and benefit tracking
·  Experience of data analysis and data modelling
·  Good degree from a recognised institution (preferably in Mathematics, a Science or similar)
·  Technology such as SAS, Matlab/Python, SQL, Business Intelligence tools, Hadoop
·  Regression modelling
·  Optimisation/Linear Programming