Data Analytics Manager - Analytics Capabilities

Job Description

The Analytics Capabilities team is responsible for developing and managing data products that drive intelligent experiences, decisions and actions across the Tesco ecosystem. We work in close partnership with business and technology teams across Stores, Finance, People, Customer, Commercial to enable the seamless build, consumption, integration and expansion of Data & AI capabilities.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team and play a leading role in defining, building and launching new type of data products that have a real impact on Tesco business & colleagues.
This is a hybrid role with the expectation of being based at our London and Welwyn Garden City offices 3 days a week. As an Analytics Manager, you will lead a team of analysts to design, build and optimise high-quality, scalable and secure data products that empower data driven decision making across Tesco. You will combine technical expertise in analytics, engineering and modelling with people leadership, ensuring our data environments, tools and outputs are robust, reliable and aligned with business needs. You will collaborate closely with data science, engineering, product and business teams to deliver impactful data solutions and foster a culture of innovation and best practice.
You will be responsible for:
• Team Leadership: Build, mentor and develop a high-performing team of analysts, fostering a culture of growth, inclusion and technical excellence with a strong emphasis on data and advanced analytics.
• Data Product Development: Lead the design, development and optimisation of scalable, secure and high-quality data pipelines and analytical models, enabling advanced analytics, machine learning and operational use cases.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data science, engineering, product and business stakeholders to translate business needs into robust, data driven solutions.
• Technical Excellence: Promote and enable adoption of Technical Standards and Engineering Effectiveness within development squads.
• Technical Experience: Demonstrate expertise in using SQL (Spark, Dremio), Python, GitHub and data orchestration tools (Airflow, Oozie) for data wrangling, building data pipelines and developing analytical interfaces.
• AI-Assisted Analytics: Bring experience and curiosity towards AI-assisted analytics and machine learning, actively exploring opportunities to integrate AI and ML within data and analytics products.
• Data Governance: Ensure data lineage, cataloguing and access controls are implemented and maintained, supporting compliance, discoverability and ethical use of data.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement (speed of delivery, product quality, reduce number of defects and time to fix) and facilitate innovation in business practices and ways of working.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate complex data and analytics concepts effectively to technical and non-technical audiences, enabling informed decision making.
• Talent Development: Support recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing development of talent within the team. Identify skill gaps and lead targeted upskilling initiatives to enable the team to adopt software engineering best practices, AI capabilities, advanced analytics and automation practices.
• Experience developing robust data products that are actionable and scalable.• Expertise of using Spark, Dremio, Teradata or other SQL technologies.• Strong knowledge and experience of using business intelligence, ETL frameworks and visualisation tools such as Tableau.• Experience with Python, GitHub, data orchestration tools (Oozie, Airflow) for data wrangling, building data pipelines and building analytical/web interfaces.• Good understanding of the full data lifecycle and understanding of typical enterprise concerns around data platforms (Governance, Quality, Security).• Experience creating outputs for both technical and non-technical audiences.• Ability to manipulate, analyse and synthesise data using different sources to create customer led, data driven products and high impact presentations. Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet. We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here. We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
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