Lead Analytics Manager

This role combines people leadership, strategic thinking, and hands‑on analytical direction, ensuring the work of your team lands successfully in the business. You’ll sit within the Supply Chain Development & Change team; reporting into the Head of Supplier-to-Depot Transformation.

You will lead and enable a team of analysts to deliver transformational change across Tesco’s end‑to‑end supply chain. You’re responsible for shaping direction, setting standards, and ensuring analytical work is focused on the biggest business opportunities. Working closely with senior Supply Chain leaders, you will help Tesco make better decisions through data‑driven insight, strong commercial thinking, and effective storytelling.

You will be responsible for:

Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team of analysts & project managers to deliver large scale, cross functional, initiatives for the business.
Set clear priorities and direction for the team’s work, including annual objective setting, measuring performance and giving regular feedback to support personal development alongside business delivery.
Oversee the entire project lifecycle, from ideation and concept through to delivery and benefit realisation, ensuring strong problem definition, clear outcomes and robust step change measurement methodology.
Partner with stakeholders outside of supply chain to unlock end-to-end value and transform operating models, delivering large scale cost reduction across suppliers, commercial & retail.
Bring together the different skills required to be effective in this role, including line management, internal consulting, supply chain subject matter expertise, project management.

You will need:

5+ years’ of project/programme management experience with a proven record of delivery in a complex, data‑rich environment.
Line management experience and ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
Strong communication skills, with experience presenting to senior stakeholders including Directors and Business Leaders and the ability to flex style for technical and non‑technical audiences.
Relevant degree and/or formal project management qualifications.

Preferred but not essential

Analytical skills using SQL or similar programming languages
Experience working with third party suppliers
Familiarity with AGILE methodologies.
Background in Supply Chain, Grocery Retail or Consulting.

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What's in it for you:

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Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
Private medical insurance
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 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
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

About us:

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 a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

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 visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility