Retail Events Analyst (Supply Chain)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 23 June 2025
Requisition ID: 400002101
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's Supply Chain team as a Retail Events Analyst means being part of a dynamic and collaborative environment where you can make a real impact on the delivery of local events and the overall customer experience. With the opportunity to utilise cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning and demand forecasting systems, you will play a crucial role in analysing data, generating insights, and driving operational savings. Collaborating cross-functionally and building strong relationships with stakeholders, you will have the chance to influence decision-making, implement process improvements, and contribute to the continuous growth and success of our retail events. At Sainsbury's, we value business partnership, problem-solving skills, and a customer-centric mindset, providing ample opportunities for personal development and career advancement. Join us and become part of a diverse and forward-thinking team committed to delivering exceptional results.
What you'll do
You will play a crucial role in analysing and interpreting generated forecasts to drive operational savings and better outcomes for customers during local events. Your primary responsibility will be to utilise machine learning, demand forecasting, and store ordering systems to support the successful delivery of planned local events at various levels, including category, store, cluster, and region. You will analyse forecast model outputs to accurately predict volume requirements and make informed decisions on store-level overrides when necessary. Collaborating with supply chain, logistics, and retail business units, you will build effective relationships to ensure the best outcomes for customers, while also proactively supporting stores experiencing significant trade impacts during local event periods. With your strong business acumen and analytical skills, you will influence and challenge stakeholders, contribute to continuous improvement targets, and drive operational savings. Additionally, you will provide support for ad hoc queries and actively work towards reducing the number of such activities by employing end-to-end problem-solving approaches. In this role, you will contribute to a customer-centric mindset, apply critical thinking in decision-making, and demonstrate strong communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
Who you are
You are a highly skilled and analytical professional with a strong business acumen and a customer-centric mindset. With your expertise in data analysis, demand forecasting, and store ordering systems, you have a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges involved in managing supply chain initiatives at a category, store, cluster, and regional level. Your ability to generate insights and trends from data, coupled with your critical thinking and problem-solving skills, allows you to make informed decisions to drive operational savings and deliver better outcomes for the customer. With excellent communication and negotiation skills, you effectively collaborate with stakeholders across the business and build strong relationships, ensuring successful event planning and execution. Your attention to detail, prioritisation skills, and ability to work in an agile and changing environment enable you to navigate the dynamic retail landscape and continuously improve processes to achieve the best customer outcomes.
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s 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, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with 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. 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 bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's 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, salary 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).
