Business Analyst - Shrinkage

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• 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 full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

Working within Business Support, as a Business Analyst you will deliver streams of work crafted to support and improve our stores and operating model ensuring we always serve customers, communities and the planet a little better everyday. Inspiring change, you will be willing to stretch and develop yourself, working collaboratively to come up with simple, effective solutions for customers and colleagues.

You will be responsible for

• Undertaking sophisticated analytical work to deliver insight and enable improvements in Tesco’s shrinkage performance
• Completing investigations into shrinkage trends to engage teams across the business on their unknown loss, utilising my analytical skills to ensure that the department uses a data led approach to face the key challenges in present and future shrinkage performance
• Using my understanding of data and statistical analysis to craft hypotheses and test findings, to deliver the findings in a clear and engaging manner
• Effectively using data to find opportunities for shrinkage reduction, developing action plans and leading on solutions to deliver benefit
• Being the subject matter expert in natural work teams to advise on changes which may impact shrink while providing knowledge, insight and refining solutions to issues that arise
• Building strong partner relationships in other teams and describing the team's insights and plans to a variety of audiences with empathy and conviction
• Supporting Project Managers in Business Support and other functions to deliver change work projects, valuing the potential opportunity and any associated risks and benefits
• Designing and maintaining non-financial reports for the shrinkage and security team, highlighting process issues, compliance and opportunities on how to reduce shrinkage
• Supporting with highly analytical tasks within wider departments where the relevant expertise is not present
• Effectively using my expertise to build the technical capability of other analysts in the Shrinkage team and help shape their work to make it more relevant and engaging
• Effectively using a suite of insight reports provided by the Tesco Business Services (TBS) reporting and analytics centre of expertise to give senior leadership visibility of how the business is performing and proactively identify areas which require improvement
• Following our business code of conduct and always acting with integrity/due diligence

You will need

• Numerate degree/A Level maths
• Statistical analysis and research methods
• Using data warehousing tools to extract and manipulate data – SQL highly desirable
• Solid understanding of Excel (knowledge of VBA desirable)
• Knowledge of Matlab, R, Python desirable
• Experience in a customer facing retail role

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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 proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.