Analytics Manager

What’s in it for you

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• 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
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• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
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• 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

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. Please talk to the Hiring Manager about how they can support you.

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Analytics manager to come join our growing team here within our Distribution and Fulfilment function!

As a member of the distribution transformation team, you will work with a small team project managers to deliver actionable data modelling, analytics and reporting to help drive our distribution transformation initiatives improving profitability and long-term growth ambitions.

Location: Please be aware this is a Head Office based role (Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1TW) however time will be spent at our Tesco Distribution Centres as required each week dependent on the project’s needs, 3+ days per week minimum, sometimes more. 

You will be responsible for

• Partnering with our distribution projects and operational teams to understand problem statements, activities and analytical needs and translate this into clearly defined analytical and modelling requirements.
• Providing insight from data and reporting to support decision making on a variety of distribution transformation initiatives, including our Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) initiatives.
• Collaborating with stakeholders at all levels working on projects covering Distribution to End to End savings.
• Building self-analytics capability on top of big data architectures using tools like Tableau to eliminate the need for manual data retrieval and manipulation.
• Use of Excel, PowerPoint, and a BI software (preferably Tableau) to support stakeholders to make business decisions
• Building mathematical models to help optimise current distribution operational cost and to increase capacity and capability of existing assets.

You will need

• Ability to simplify sophisticated problems and manipulate data accurately.
• Effective stakeholder management.
• Ability to identify the most important limiting factor in the operational process.
• Understanding of logistics, material handling technologies and labour standards (preferred but not mandatory).
• Willingness to learn Tesco fresh and packaged distribution centre operational processes.
• Experience using a query language (preferably SQL) to access and manipulate data from a data base, Experience using Alation preferred.
• Experience using Excel, PowerPoint, and a BI software (preferably Tableau) to manipulate and share data in a clear and visually appealing way to support partners to make business decisions.
• A degree or equivalent experience with numerate subjects preferred e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Economics (desirable).

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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.