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Analytics Internship - Undergraduate Placement 2023

If you’re studying for a numerically based degree and thinking about your placement year for 2023/24, there’s nowhere better than Sainsbury’s.

As one of the biggest companies in the UK, we are a multi-brand, multi-channel retailer, consisting of Sainsbury’s, Nectar, Argos, Tu Clothing, Habitat and a large scale, wholly owned retail bank. With 45 million customer interactions weekly, we are a data rich organisation. The numbers we deal with are big, complex, shifting, and crucial to driving our business forward.

This is paid work with a FTSE 100 business, and a real foot in the door for only the most ambitious students.

More about the role

On the Sainsbury’s Analytics Internship, as part of your degree you’ll spend a year in one of the analytics divisions across our business. This could be: Marketing, Digital, Tech, Supply Chain, Retail or Commercial Operations.

Across the year you will:

• Use tools such as R, Python, MicroStrategy, Unica, Snowflake, AWS to access and interrogate our data to solve problems
• Build business understanding and develop judgement and communication skills to share work in a way that will ensure it has an impact on Sainsburys Group
• Carry out analysis and reporting
• Develop an analytical mind-set needed to produce actionable insight
• Experience working in a team
• Work collaboratively with other teams in the business, and contribute to strategic discussions and planning meetings
• Practice and grow at presenting your work to others
• Become an excellent communicator with the ability to explain complex problems to an unfamiliar audience
• Gain knowledge of database structures and relational databases

What we're looking for

• A broad numerical background: you will currently be reading a degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics or similar
• The desire and potential to develop technical skills in analytics and data
• Ability to collaborate and work within a team
• Excellent communication skills and ability to present to a range of stakeholders
• Time management and organisational skills
• An ability to translate academic thinking and skills to real world scenarios and quickly develop the understanding and ability to manipulate large and disparate datasets
• The desire and aptitude to learn new programming languages and software to an advanced level, building your skillset as an analyst to be able to process complex data efficiently and accurately
• An ability to take ownership of, understand and maintain multiple day to day processes within the team whilst maintaining good attention to detail
• While it's not essential, any experience of any form of coding would be beneficial

In return you'll get

• A competitive salary
• Colleague Discount across our brands, including Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat
• Holiday Allowance
• Special Offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
• Full year programme of inductions and immersions into our wider business
• Ample resources at your fingertips – from software and colleagues to external agencies – you’ll have everything you need to achieve your objectives and we will help you all the way
• Support in navigating our business, and all other potential career journeys too, to help you make the right choice when you graduate

Flexible working conversations are encouraged. Across our multi-brands, we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture.
If you’re reading this, even if you’re not 100% sure you’re there with your experience, we’d still love to hear from you.

Interviewing April 2023, starting date early July 2023

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