Strategic Projects & Analytics Lead

London | Full-time | Hybrid

About dunnhumby

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, helping the world's most ambitious retailers and brands put the customer at the heart of every decision. With nearly 3,000 experts across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, we partner with iconic businesses like Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro to turn data into growth, innovation and measurable value for their customers.

Tesco Media

Tesco Media is the ultimate media partner to brands. Built on unrivalled customer insight, it’s a media owner with soul, scale, and storytelling power. Tesco Media helps brands and agencies connect meaningfully with customers, drive creative effectiveness, and grow at the point of purchase.

About the Role

As Strategic Projects & Analytics Lead, you’ll lead high-priority strategic projects and analytical work that help Tesco Media make better decisions, accelerate growth and evolve its operating model.

Working closely with the Strategy Director, leadership team and cross-functional partners, you’ll turn complex business questions into clear insights, practical recommendations and executable plans. You’ll combine structured problem-solving, commercial analysis and programme leadership to take initiatives from discovery through to implementation, across areas including growth, productivity, AI and automation, proposition development and operating-model evolution.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll bring together strategic thinking, analysis and hands-on delivery, helping turn Tesco Media’s priorities into measurable action.

• Lead strategic projects end to end, from defining the problem and scope through analysis, recommendations, mobilisation and handover.
• Shape and prioritise a portfolio of initiatives, establishing clear objectives, milestones, dependencies and decision points while assessing strategic fit, commercial value, feasibility and risk.
• Turn evidence into decisions, using market and problem sizing, financial and commercial analysis, scenario modelling, trend analysis and performance diagnostics to tackle complex questions.
• Create leadership-ready recommendations, synthesising quantitative and qualitative evidence into compelling strategic choices, presentations and practical plans.
• Measure and embed value, defining KPIs and benefits-realisation frameworks, tracking outcomes and creating reusable analytical tools and approaches that can scale across the business.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll be someone who enjoys bringing structure to ambiguity and is equally comfortable getting into the analysis and influencing senior stakeholders around what should happen next.

• Experience delivering strategy, transformation, analytics or consulting projects from initial diagnosis through to recommendation and implementation.
• Strong commercial and analytical judgement, including business cases, financial analysis, market sizing and scenario modelling, with the confidence to make evidence-based judgements when data is imperfect.
• Proven project and portfolio management, balancing multiple priorities, workstreams, dependencies and stakeholders in a complex cross-functional environment.
• Clear, concise storytelling and communication, translating complex analysis into impactful outputs and recommendations for senior audiences.
• Confident stakeholder management and influencing, building trusted relationships across different functions and levels of seniority while maintaining momentum in a fast-moving environment.

You’ll Thrive If You…

• Enjoy solving complex, loosely defined business problems and creating clarity from ambiguity.
• Combine strategic thinking with the practical discipline required to get initiatives implemented.
• Have an interest in retail media, digital advertising, retail or technology and the trends reshaping these industries.
• Bring knowledge of AI, generative AI, automation, digital transformation, operating-model change or responsible AI principles.

What You Can Expect From Us

We won't just meet your expectations. We'll defy them. So you'll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you'd expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off.

And we don't just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process — please let your recruiter know what adjustments would help.

UK benefits

• Flexible benefits: A flexible allowance to choose your benefits, with unused allowance available to be paid in salary or contributed towards your pension.
• Healthcare and protection: Private medical cover through Vitality is available, alongside life assurance, income protection and critical illness cover.
• Pension: Defined contribution pension with Aviva with up to 7.5% matched funding.
• Time off: 25 days' holiday per holiday year in addition to Public Holidays, the option to buy up to five additional days, and a day off for your birthday.
• Wellbeing and extras: Access to the dh Wellness Hub and confidential employee assistance, plus options including car leasing, technology purchases, dental and travel insurance and Cycle to Work.

Our approach to Flexible Working

At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.

We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.