Lead Analytics Manager

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

Within Space, Range & Merchandising (SRM), the Range Optimisation team’s primary focus is to help build the best ranges for our customers in the right stores, applying cutting edge science created by Tesco and or/our close partners at dunnhumby. This involves working collaboratively with other stakeholders across the business, particularly commercial, to ensure these land successfully.

As a Lead Analytics Manager in SRM you will lead development projects that optimise our range, making it better from a customer, category and commercial perspective, as well as driving future range resets to ensure we deliver against our profit objectives for next year.

We are looking for an analytical problem solver, and an energetic & creative thinker who believes in a culture of learning, improvement and personal development.

You will be responsible for

• Driving the strategy and execution of range resets for Tesco next year across all Food areas
• Owning a plan across cross functional teams helping the resets to deliver from a profitability perspective whilst also factoring in operational efficiencies, aligned range and pricing principles & an optimised macro space strategy
• Owning and maintaining all range principles across total estate
• Building great relationships with our stakeholders across Product, Channels and Customer, dunnhumby, Pricing, and Supply Chain
• Leading analysis and insight to drive customer focused ranging decisions that are profitable for Tesco
• Leading and inspiring a team of four to maximise their development and potential
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will need

• Experience within Commercial, Supply Chain, or SRM with a track record of getting results
• Great at building relationships, influencing decision makers, and taking people with you
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable pulling together a narrative
• Excellent management skills, with a desire to motivate and develop a high performing team
• Numerically strong, with data analytical skills that lead to sound recommendations, and great attention to detail
• Respond well to pressure with an ability to hit tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Self-organised and highly motivated, as well as a go-getter attitude
• Excited at the prospect of joining the team who are on a mission to create better ranges for customers, colleagues and Tesco

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.