Lead Analytics Manager - Space, Range and Merchandising

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays).
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution.
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay.
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home.
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

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About the role

As the Space, Range and Merchandising (SRM) Lead Analytics Manager in Supply Chain Development & Change you will lead a small team of analysts to deliver projects that optimise our Space, Range and Merchandising reporting to improve availability for customers and reduce cost and complexity for suppliers and Tesco.

This is a great opportunity to make your mark and develop your team to be the best they can be! 

This role is available full or part time and we are also open to job share.

The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Jenny Kennedy

You will be responsible for

• Reviewing the SRM insights analytics processes
• Complete a stop/start/continue of all reporting; the output of this will be (i) clarity on the value current reporting brings (some of it may need to be evolved or stopped (ii) identification of future reporting needs to support the SRM Dev & Change
• Identify automation opportunities and simplification requirements
• Leading, coaching and developing your team in analysing data & processes to quantify opportunities and design solutions.
• Directing your analysts to build, trial and rollout improvements to SRM reporting that deliver significant savings
• Understanding the unique challenges faced in the Group countries, identifying how UK systems and processes need to be adapted to meet their needs
• Identifying when Group countries aren’t following the right process in practice
• Building and managing the plan to upgrade Group systems and bring processes into line
• Supporting trials in the countries to ensure solutions deliver as expected.
• Leading and inspiring your team to maximise their development and potential

You will need

Ideally from a Programme / Process engineering background, you will need to have demonstrated experience of the following;

• Strong stakeholder management including influencing and presentation skills
• Strong project management
• Data analysis
• Root cause analysis
• Process or system improvement
• Delivering through others
• People management, coaching and developing
• Using tools to extract & and analyse data (especially SQL, Excel)
• Data science methods
• Retail experience advantageous
• Working with supply chain systems and operations
• Highly numerate degree from a recognised institution

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.