Junior Insight Consultant

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Nectar 360 Ltd
Closing date: 08 May 2026
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We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. Everything our Nectar team does is powered by data and by strong relationships with some of the UK's favourite brands. The Nectar360 team develops loyalty programmes, turning insight into something that makes a real difference, across both traditional and digital media. It's like an agency within a retailer, and retail media is a crucial part of our future. The culture might not be what you expect either, because there's no set up quite like this one. The team is a real priority, connected to almost everything the business does and playing a key role in driving profitability. It's a place where you can take risks, learn from them, and be recognised.

Junior Insight Consultant

Location: London & Home

In a nutshell:

Nectar360 offers suppliers comprehensive multi channel marketing solutions in and around Sainsbury's and Argos stores and online. We have a unique approach to store and customer planning. Using Nectar, the UK's most comprehensive customer database, their teams conduct advanced analysis to uncover new insights about shopper interactions and brands.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Junior Insight Consultant to join the Nectar360 Data & Insight team to support in the delivery of insight consultancy projects to FMCG clients to achieve an overall team target.

We are looking for an ambitious Junior Insight Consultant with excellent communication and organisational experience to work with our suppliers, stakeholders, the Nectar360 Client Service team, and the Nectar360 Data & Insights team to drive revenue growth across Data & Insights ensuring customer data is at the heart of key business decisions for our clients and Sainsbury's.

Your ability to present actionable insights from our customer data is crucial as it enables informed decision-making, drives strategic initiatives, and helps identify opportunities for improvement, ultimately leading to better business outcomes for both our clients and Sainsbury's.

A positive, forward thinking, and can do attitude is essential as you will be working in one of the fastest growing and dynamic areas of the business.

What I am accountable for:

• Support in client relationships
• Identify consultancy opportunities across clients through:
  • Ability to frame client issues/questions, overlaying the Sainsbury's trading context, and scoping the necessary analysis techniques needed to solve them
  • Proactively work with our Client Services teams to identify client leads and showcase how Nectar data can help drive growth in Sainsbury's
  • Having a detailed knowledge of the best practice consultancy
• Commercial responsibility for Data & Insight revenue
• Work closely with manager to implement insight propositions for N360 clients.
• Align to Sainsbury's priorities:
  • Understand and align to the Sainsbury's strategy and what this means for our clients
  • Understand the role of trading insights and other central functions
• Support in deliveries to ensure high impact consultancy projects:
  • Support in the delivery of assigned consultancy projects
  • Stay abreast of new developments in FMCG, retail and insight analytics thought industry journals and appropriate conferences and events
• Support the Sainsbury's Insight Platform (SIP) commercial team:
  • Provide support to the SIP commercial team to help manage workload and priorities during high volume contract renewal periods
  • Produce internal reporting and performance metrics to support renewal activity, including usage, engagement, and value measures to inform commercial conversations
  • Support in identifying commercial opportunities with our client base, whether towards an SIP contract or ad hoc consultancy requests
• Support the Sainsbury's Insight Platform helpdesk and training plan:
  • Learn the SIP system and support clients through training and manning the helpdesk
• Support raising the visibility of Data & Insights within Nectar360:
  • Develop effective cross functional relationships with peers and virtual teams within the business
  • Work closely with planning function to ensure all Nectar360 opportunities are shared

Support the Sainsbury's Insight Platform helpdesk and training plan

What I need to show:

• Own it:
  • Always do what you say you'll do and suggest solutions for problems as you spot them
  • Ask questions and contribute honestly in discussions or conversations
  • Prioritise your work in line with team or project goals
• Make it better:
  • Willing to try new approaches in order to improve and simplify
  • Embrace variety and open to opportunities to transfer your skills to new challenges
  • Seek information to better understand your role and how teams around you operate
  • Act on feedback you receive and give accurate and timely feedback to others
• Show care and respect to everyone
• Seek opportunities to connect with others and build trusted relationships
• Walk in the shoes of your internal and external customers, considering their needs in all you do

Support we will provide:

• Support from Client Service and Data & Insights teams
• A network of Nectar360 colleagues and teams

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. 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 payday. 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 target bonus of up to 5% of salary (which may vary for Nectar360), 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, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well as 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.

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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.