Data Visualisation & Automation Manager

Sainsburys Tech - Data Visualisation and Automation Manager - MicroStrategy, MSTR, SQL, Data Modelling, BI - London/Hybrid Working

Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's Tech as the Data Visualisation and Automation Manager means becoming an integral part of the UK's leading multi-channel, multi-brand retailer. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work within an Agile framework, delivering data products that support the achievement of our business strategy goals. With a focus on automation, reporting, and visualisation, you will play a critical role in driving a data-centric culture and solving complex business challenges. This is a chance to work with cutting-edge technologies, lead a talented team, and make a real impact by delivering powerful insights to stakeholders. Join our dynamic and fast-paced environment and contribute to revolutionising the way we leverage data to drive business success.

What you'll do
As a Data Visualisation and Automation Manager at Sainsbury's, you will be responsible for;

• Solutions Design: Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to understand business requirements and design comprehensive business intelligence solutions. Collaborate with data architecture and engineering teams to ensure the right data is delivered to meet our data visualisation strategy.
• Data Visualisation: Develop interactive and visually appealing dashboards and reports using BI tools (MicroStrategy) to convey insights and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to stakeholders.
• Data Analysis: Analyse large and complex datasets to extract meaningful insights using BI tools. Identify trends, patterns, and outliers to support data-driven decision-making processes. Extensive experience with SQL and Data Warehousing concepts.
• Performance Optimisation: Monitor and optimise the performance of BI solutions. Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies and propose improvements.
• Team Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior members of the team whilst recruiting, training and retaining a world class team. Share best practices and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation. Monitor team activities and highlight risks, issues and progress toward milestones.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with Data Quality, governance and data security requirements in delivery.
• Innovation & Collaboration: Drive innovation by actively engaging in COE forums within the Applied Data Analytics squads at Sainsbury's. Collaborate with the broader Tech, Digital, and Data teams, as well as Service Managers, to ensure a world-class support model for stakeholders

Who you are
As the Data Visualisation and Automation Manager for Sainsbury's, you are an experienced professional with a proven track record in delivering automated, compelling, and insightful solutions to surface key trends and patterns for end stakeholders. With a strong understanding of the tools, technologies, and data structures involved in reporting, automation, and visualisation, you possess the ability to create efficient and scalable data products that support the achievement of our business strategy goals. Your proactive and initiative-driven approach, coupled with your exceptional communication and influencing skills, allow you to effectively engage and influence senior stakeholders as well as present complex concepts to large teams. With a commercial mindset and the determination to challenge the norm, you thrive in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment, driving innovation and delivering impactful results.

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

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 20% 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, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

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).

Sainsbury’s company vision
Our vision is to be the most trusted retailer, where people love to work and shop. That means harnessing the talent, creativity and diversity of our colleagues to ensure that customers receive great service every time they shop with us.
If you would like to hear more about our vision and values, be sure to visit our corporate page.
We invest in training, development and multiple initiatives to ensure our teams feel enabled to offer the best shopping experience to our customers and that Sainsbury’s is truly a ‘Great Place to Work’.