Performance Analyst
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 19 May 2026
Requisition ID: 400058537
Food Commercial - Performance Analyst
Why join us
As a Performance Analyst within the Grocery & GM Business Unit, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a talented team, tackling challenging commercial problems and providing data-driven recommendations. We foster a friendly, collaborative, and innovative environment, where continuous learning and growth are encouraged. Join us to make a real impact in the retail industry and be part of our mission to help customers live well for less.
What you'll be doing
As a Performance Analyst, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining advanced tools and reports that provide deep insights into our secondary space performance. Leveraging the rich and varied data at our disposal, you will combine your commercial insight, curiosity, and understanding of our business to provide recommendations and identify opportunities for improvement. Your creativity in leveraging new data sets and creating new sources of insight will help solve complex commercial problems and drive tangible recommendations including secondary space allocation strategy, deal effectiveness and event performance. Collaborating with other data and analytics teams, you will access and integrate data, and carry out ad-hoc and deep-dive analyses, providing invaluable insights to cross-functional teams. Your ability to work at pace and to deadlines, along with your strong communication skills, will enable you to contribute effectively to the success of the team.
Who you are
As a Performance Analyst in our dynamic Grocery & GM Operations team at Sainsbury's, you are a highly skilled data professional with a passion for driving business success through strategic insights and advanced analytics. You thrive in leveraging comprehensive data sets to develop and maintain cutting-edge tools and reports that provide a deep understanding of key performance indicators. With your strong commercial acumen, curiosity, and understanding of our business, you offer valuable recommendations and identify opportunities for improvement across secondary space. Your expertise in statistical analysis and data visualization, enables you to develop innovative solutions and automate processes, ultimately contributing to the success of our commercial division. As a strong collaborator and effective communicator, you excel at working in cross-functional teams and presenting complex analysis to non-technical stakeholders. With a focus on delivering accurate and timely reports, you continuously seek feedback to enhance the robustness and usefulness of your insights. Your passion for data-driven decision-making and commitment to continuous learning make you a valuable member of our team.
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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 10% 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 additional 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, pay 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).
