Commercial Analyst - Global Partnerships

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 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (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.

Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues.

About the role

Within the Global Partnerships team, we help lead the partnering with the largest, most forward thinking Branded suppliers into Tesco; helping to align Tesco and our supply partners to unlock joint growth opportunities. Across our multiple markets, channels and categories there are lots of interesting problems to solve; how do we best serve our online customers, how should we flow product into thousands of stores, how can we use our joint scale to go faster on sustainability initiatives. Across all we questions we ask ourselves and supply partners, bring data to the forefront of decision making has never been more important. You'll play a vital role in helping to start building out how the team's initiatives and ideas are based in data-driven insight, facilitating collaboration with Tesco colleagues and our partnership with suppliers.

You will be responsible for

• Using a combination of data and business understanding to turn data into insight, root causing issues, defining problems, designing creative solutions and implementing them in the business.
• Maintaining & developing our suite of insight reports to give our operators and leadership visibility of how the business is performing and what we need to do to improve.
• Reporting data accurately and turning it into useful information which has context and supporting narrative.
• Owning a project; build engagement, influence relevant stakeholders and deliver change in line with milestones.
• Working closely with other teams in the Product division, such as Buying teams, Product Proposition, Promotions, Trade Planning, and Space, Range & Display (SRD) to ensure our full commercial strategy is aligned and executed efficiently.
• Support the delivery of key strategic projects across the product and channel teams Support the end-to-end process from planning and forecasting through to performance review and insight.
• Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and hand-over protocols and successfully completing all my training so that I have zero GSCOP breaches.
• Ensuring all agreements are recorded in writing, reporting GSCOP complaints to Legal within 48 hours of receipt, and leading a culture of compliance within the team.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

You will need

Operational Skills:

• Strong Excel skills and a working knowledge of SQL (Teradata or Hadoop), and / or Alteryx or Python.
• Report and dashboard creation with Tableau
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, translating complex issues into clear and actionable frameworks and insights
• Strong written and verbal communication, ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong business acumen and the drive to make changes to the way the company operates

Experience:

• Experience with handling large data volumes with modern data processing tools, e.g. by using SQL / Hadoop / Python.
• The ability to simplify complex issues and implement practical solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to engage and collaborate with other teams to deliver to objectives
• The ability to innovate new and pragmatic solutions using your own ideas Able to work across various cultures

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.