Reporting and Analytics Data Partner – Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Overview

As Strategic Analytics Data Partner in People Data & Analytics, you will help Tesco understand workforce choices that matter. You will collaborate with People and business leaders to turn complex questions into clear insights, identifying drivers of performance and shaping practical recommendations. This role goes beyond reporting: you’ll connect evidence across people, operations and finance to assess risks and opportunities and tell a compelling data story. You will test hypotheses, consider uncertainties, and propose actions with defined owners and success measures. You’ll work to build reusable analytics, influence senior stakeholders, and advance Tesco’s people analytics agenda.

Pay / Benefits

• Annual bonus up to 20%
• Holiday 25 days + personal day + bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Maternity and adoption leave; paternity leave
• 24/7 virtual GP service
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and mental wellbeing support

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to define decision needs and key questions
• Lead diagnostic, predictive and scenario analyses to explain workforce trends and risks
• Combine people, operational and financial measures for a holistic view of performance
• Distinguish fact, assumption, and interpretation and surface uncertainty
• Translate insights into prioritized, actionable recommendations with owners and success metrics
• Craft audience-focused narratives that connect questions, evidence, implications, choices and actions
• Identify the most material story in the data and avoid data-heavy commentary
• Use concise visuals and plain language while keeping analytical integrity
• Tailor insights for executives, functions and operations with a single trusted evidence base
• Communicate risk of inaction and required decisions, handling challenge confidently
• Build understanding of Tesco’s strategy and workforce priorities across stakeholders
• Reframe requests into sharper analytical questions and decision needs
• Advise on evidence limits and where further context is needed
• Shape analytics agenda by surfacing themes, blind spots and opportunities
• Create alignment and drive coordinated action across stakeholder groups
• Shape reusable analytical products to support recurring decisions
• Define product outcomes, users and adoption measures to guide investment
• Ensure dashboards/self-service tools provide trusted evidence for action
• Collaborate with data science, engineering and tech teams to scale solutions
• Review and retire low-value outputs to free capacity for high-impact work
• Apply segmentation, driver analysis, forecasting, scenario modelling and sensitivity testing
• Use automation and AI to enhance exploration and communication while maintaining transparency
• Design experiments to understand interventions and outcomes
• Move from retrospective analysis to early warning and prescriptive support
• Explain methods, assumptions and limitations in business-friendly terms
• Ensure data quality, governance and analytical integrity
• Use clear definitions, validation, controls and transparent methodology
• Assess data quality issues and their impact on confidence
• Protect sensitive data with proper access controls and privacy practices
• Document assumptions and analytical choices for repeatability and challenge
• Work with owners and governance teams to improve data value and trust
• Build stakeholder confidence in interpreting evidence and making data-informed decisions
• Coach colleagues in problem framing, analytics, visualization and storytelling
• Share reusable methods and standards across the analytics community
• Lead analytics workstreams and promote curiosity and continuous learning
• Contribute to Tesco’s analytics strategy and capability roadmap
• Demonstrate success through faster, better-evidenced decisions and measurable outcomes
• Produce reusable analytical products and methods to increase reach and reduce manual reporting
• Reduce reliance on one-off reports and focus on decisions and action

Key requirements

• Experience using analytics to influence strategic workforce/organizational decisions
• Track record of turning multiple data sources into clear, practical recommendations
• Experience applying diagnostic and forward-looking analyses beyond routine reporting
• Ability to prioritise findings, explain uncertainty and avoid causal misinterpretations
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders as adviser or consultant
• Experience with governed data, quality controls and clear methodology explanations
• Strong written, verbal and visual communication skills to make evidence accessible

• Excellent communication
• Stakeholder management
• Problem framing
• Analytics storytelling
• Data storytelling
• Diagnostic and predictive analytics

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