Strategic Projects & Analytics Lead

London | Full-time | Hybrid

About dunnhumby

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, helping the world's most ambitious retailers and brands put the customer at the heart of every decision. With nearly 3,000 experts across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, we partner with iconic businesses like Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro to turn data into growth, innovation and measurable value for their customers.

Tesco Media

Tesco Media is the ultimate media partner to brands. Built on unrivalled customer insight, it’s a media owner with soul, scale, and storytelling power. Tesco Media helps brands and agencies connect meaningfully with customers, drive creative effectiveness, and grow at the point of purchase.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Strategic Projects & Analytics Lead to deliver high-priority strategic and analytical work that helps Tesco Media make better decisions, accelerate growth and evolve its operating model. Working closely with senior leaders and cross-functional partners, you’ll turn complex business questions into clear insights, practical recommendations and executable plans. You’ll manage initiatives from early discovery through to implementation, helping the business prioritise opportunities according to strategic fit, value, feasibility and risk.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll combine structured problem-solving, commercial analysis and programme leadership to move important opportunities from ideas to measurable outcomes.

• Lead strategic projects from problem definition and scoping through analysis, recommendation, mobilisation and handover.
• Shape a sequenced portfolio of initiatives with clear objectives, ownership, milestones, dependencies and decision points.
• Develop business cases and options, balancing commercial value with customer and colleague impact, effort, feasibility and risk.
• Turn evidence into decisions through market and problem sizing, financial analysis, scenario modelling, trend analysis and performance diagnostics.
• Establish measures of success, including KPIs, value cases and benefits-realisation frameworks that track outcomes and adoption.

You’ll also facilitate cross-functional working sessions, help stakeholders resolve ambiguity and maintain oversight of delivery risks and dependencies. As an in-house strategic adviser, you’ll create concise, leadership-ready materials and contribute to strategic planning, competitive intelligence and the translation of long-term priorities into measurable plans.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll be a commercially minded strategic thinker who can create structure from ambiguity, work confidently with imperfect information and maintain momentum across multiple priorities.

• Experience delivering strategy, transformation, analytics or consulting projects, from initial diagnosis through to recommendations and implementation.
• Strong commercial and analytical judgement, including business cases, financial analysis, market sizing or scenario modelling.
• Confident programme leadership, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies and delivery risks.
• Clear and influential communication, turning complex quantitative and qualitative evidence into succinct recommendations for senior audiences.
• Effective stakeholder management, building trusted relationships and aligning colleagues across varied functions and levels of seniority.

Experience in retail media, advertising, retail, technology or consulting would be valuable. Familiarity with operating-model design, change management, data governance, responsible AI, automation or digital transformation would also be useful.

You’ll Thrive If You…

• Enjoy solving complex, loosely defined business problems.
• Can move comfortably between detailed analysis and the wider strategic picture.
• Bring together different perspectives and create commitment to action.
• Look for reusable approaches that help successful ideas scale across a business.

What You Can Expect From Us

We won't just meet your expectations. We'll defy them. So you'll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you'd expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off. And we don't just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process — please let your recruiter know what adjustments would help.

UK Benefits

Benefits available to eligible UK employees include:

• Flexible benefits and healthcare: A grade-dependent flexible allowance, with the option to select private medical cover and add eligible partners or dependants.
• Financial protection: Life assurance, income protection and critical illness cover, subject to the relevant scheme terms.
• Pension: A defined contribution pension scheme with up to 7.5% matched funding.
• Time off: 25 days’ holiday in addition to public holidays, the option to buy up to five additional days, loyalty leave and a day off for your birthday.
• Wellbeing and lifestyle: Employee assistance, wellbeing resources, car leasing, technology purchasing, Cycle to Work and other selectable benefits.
• Car allowance: Available for G4+ roles.

Our approach to Flexible Working

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