Analytics Internship Undergraduate Placement London 2022
If you’re studying for a numerically based degree and thinking about your placement year for 2022/23, 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.
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, Finance, Retail and Commercial Operations.
Across the year you will
- Use tools such as R, Python, SAS, MicroStrategy, Unica, Snowflake, AWS to access and interrogate our data to solve problems
- Build a business understanding and develop judgement and communication skills to share work in a way that will ensure it has an impact on the business
- Carry out analysis and reporting, and more advanced analytical problems too
- Develop an analytical mind-set required 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, or similar
- The desire and potential to develop technical skills in analytics, data & science
- Teamwork and collaboration skills are essential
- While it's not essential, any experience of any form of coding would be beneficial
- Excellent communication skills and able 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 a sophisticated 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.
In return you'll get
- A competitive salary
- Colleague Discount across our multi-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
- Help 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 October 2021, starting date early July 2022