Tech Enablement Analyst
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 09 June 2025
Requisition ID: 289531
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
In a nutshell:
The Tech Enablement Analyst will play a supporting role in the technology transformation activities, focusing on analysis and assessment of impacts and working with the Tech enablement leads and managers to plan for successful change adoption.
What I am accountable for:
• Involved in the cultural evolution that will be essential to the successful day-to-day running of our desired operating model.
• Working with stakeholders as needed to understand business objectives, challenges, and transformational goals for technology change.
• Involved in assessments and analysis of current processes, systems, and organisational structures to map out change and inform broader change management strategies and plans.
• Helps to detail requirements of our change programmes working with other business analysts across the business.
• Involved in workshops to develop inputs to analyse and to share emerging ideas or final conclusions.
• Involved in training needs analysis, gap analysis and supporting the creation of associated training plans.
• Supports preparation of artefacts that further our tech literacy effort to upskill Sainsbury’s at large on our transformation agenda and drive better decisions and common understanding amongst non-tech stakeholders.
• Produces clear and concise content that explains change within and without of technology.
What I need to know - Essential:
• Awareness of change management as a discipline and curiosity to learn more.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and manage tasks to conclusion.
• Strong focus on execution.
• Comfort with data and/or process maps.
What I need to know - Desirable:
• Retail experience.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies.
• Understanding and experience of Agile practices and mindset.
• E-commerce and/or retail sector experience is desirable.
• Business Analyst experience.
What I need to show:
• Good communication and relationship skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• A growth mindset.
• Attention to detail.
Our Valued Behaviours are our common DNA that every colleague should live by and provide the benchmark for how we deliver our goals/individual contribution, and how we relate to other colleagues in the organisation.
Own it
• Do what you say you’ll do
• Don’t walk past a problem
Make it better
• Improve things for your customer
• Spot opportunities to simplify
Be human
• Walk in the shoes of your colleagues and customers
• Show care and respect to everyone
Support we will provide:
• Full system and process training for the role
• Wider Portfolio team for direction and guidance
• Access to personal development tools e.g. Bitesize talks, online self-development tools, internal
mentoring etc
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
