Senior Optimisation Analyst

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The successful applicant will join the Analytics and Optimisation team, which sits within the Technology Product department looking after market leading online groceries proposition, a new Marketplace proposition, the Clubcard proposition, and the digital entities in-store. The Analytics and Optimisation team is responsible for providing insight and learning to the wider Product, Trading and UX teams to help drive decision making. The team is looking to advance its optimisation practises to develop a best in class testing programme.

This role will report into the Analytics Manager for Optimisation, and whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities:

• Executing end-to-end AB test analysis for the new Marketplace proposition: gathering and shaping tracking and analytics requirements; defining success metrics; identifying and validating sources of data; applying various methods of analysis; delivering actionable insights; and liaising with stakeholders to ensure the best recommendations are identified and delivered.
• Leading the advancement of how we apply statistical analysis to our AB test results and how we report back the financial impact.
• Continuously exploring ways of making our Experimentation process more effective to make decision making faster and to better support the needs of our Product Managers. 
• Managing the test analysis backlog, prioritising and delegating appropriately to ensure that analysis is delivered in a timely manner.
• Providing input on OKR metric setting for the Marketplace product area and working collaboratively with the Analytics, UX Insight and Commercial Marketplace teams to discover opportunities for improvements to our digital Marketplace proposition.
• Coaching and mentoring the other analysts in the team and promoting best practise analysis techniques.
• Working collaboratively with the Analytics Capabilities team to ensure appropriate means of measurement is in place for all AB testing activity.

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Working in digital analytics or optimisation positions.
• Knowledge of AB testing methodology and/or an understanding of the value of experimentation alongside a familiarity with AB testing tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
• Working effectively with multi-disciplinary teams and understanding how to contribute to all phases of the product development lifecycle.
• A strong understanding of statistics and able to demonstrate situations of where you’ve applied statistical rigour to your analysis.
• Using big data, business intelligence and data visualisation tools (ideally Hadoop and Tableau).
• Advanced SQL
• Managing large, complex data sets and a proven ability to analyse data using different sources.
• Experience of working with Adobe Analytics or similar.

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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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.