Price and Promotions Analyst

This role supports the rollout of a wide range of strategic initiatives. You will be responsible for helping to shape our price and promotion strategies with timely insight & analysis utilising advanced analytical and modelling techniques.
You will be responsible for

• Supporting the delivery of key strategic projects across the product and channel teams e.g. Price Index development, Promotional Optimisation, and delivery of the Trade Plan


• Designing and performing timely and insightful analyses for strategic projects such as indexing & competitiveness, investment modelling, promotional optimisation, price architecture and range optimisation, space allocation, regression analysis, and trade plan & promotion forecasting


• Identifying and solving complex and deep issues within the data to provide accurate analysis


• Supporting the end-to-end process from planning and forecasting through to performance review and insight


• Converting analysis into Tableau dashboards


• Proactively identifying processes where we can standardise, simplify, and automate


• Working closely with other teams in the Product division, such as Product Proposition, Promotions, Trade Planning, and Space, Range & Merchandising to ensure our full commercial strategy is aligned and executed efficiently


• Collaborating with teams across the wider business, including Category, Insight and Channel specialists, to identify opportunities and develop the right solutions for our customers and our business


• Performing ad hoc research and analyses to diagnose recent performance and operational issues
  
  Experience with handling large data volumes with modern data processing tools, especially SQL (Teradata and Hadoop).


• Strong Excel skills


• Good data visualisation skills, especially through Tableau


• Strong written and verbal communication, ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels


• Python, VBA, and other data visualisation tool experience


Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Mathematics, Economics, Applied Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or related field


• Experience focusing on the practical & pragmatic use of data and a passion for connecting your work directly to the customer experience, making a real and tangible impact
  
  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'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.

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