Overview

Insight Business Partner- Argos Commercial (Electricals & Toys)

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 15 September 2025

Requisition ID: 400015567

About the Team

This role forms a core part of the Business Partners team within the Customer Insight team, working to create, collate and compile complex and varied sources of data and research in order to inform key business decisions from a customer perspective. Our Business Partner roles are responsible for working with senior stakeholders, building close and collaborative relationships to act consultatively and ensure that the customer is at the heart of decision making.

The Role

In this role, you’ll build deep, strategic partnerships with senior stakeholders—taking the lead in understanding their goals and aligning insight resources where they’ll have the greatest impact. You’ll go beyond one-off projects, proactively anticipating needs and demonstrating how insight can unlock value across key business questions. As the champion of customer understanding in your area, you’ll bring rich perspectives on emotional needs, motivations and behaviours, drawing on the broader insight team to elevate thinking. You’ll lead best-in-class insight generation for long-term strategic initiatives, translating business questions into actionable programmes of work using a broad toolkit of methodologies. With a sharp external lens, you’ll bring competitive advantage through market, channel and consumer trends, and deliver expert reporting and measurement to support everyday decision-making. You’ll also empower stakeholder teams to self-serve through training and tool enablement, while acting as a role model across the function—raising the bar on quality, ROI, and future-proofing through innovation, strategic partnerships and capability building.

About You

In this role, you’ll be the trusted single point of contact for senior stakeholders—delivering impactful business partnering and working in a truly embedded, collaborative way. You’ll proactively anticipate needs, offering insight and consultancy before it’s even requested. With a strategic mindset and a hypothesis-led approach, you’ll break down complex problems and translate them into clear, actionable outcomes. You’ll thrive in ambiguity, confidently navigating contradictions and incomplete data to bring clarity to decision-making. Drawing on a broad toolkit of data and research methodologies, you’ll integrate insights from varied sources—internal and external—to drive meaningful outcomes. Your passion for championing the customer will shine through in your storytelling and commercial acumen, ensuring insights are not only engaging but also practical and commercially relevant. You’ll empower teams through self-serve tools, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and act as a creative agent of change. Pragmatism is key—you’ll balance cost, speed, and quality to deliver what the business needs, when it needs it.

Essential Criteria

• Proven ability to build deep stakeholder relationships and influence decisions
• Strong consultancy skills with experience in translating business questions into insight programmes
• Solid understanding of customer data, feedback programmes and research methodologies
• Ability to synthesise varied data sources and deliver commercially relevant insights
• Experience in enabling assisted self-serve and embedding insight tools across teams

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Benefits and equality

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. There’s always the chance to try something new — whether as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We 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. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you’ll save 10% on your shopping online and in store at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, with potential increases to 15% at points during the year. We also offer a pensions scheme and life cover. You may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on performance.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You’ll receive an annual holiday allowance, with the option to buy an additional week. Private healthcare is provided. Other benefits include season ticket loans, interest-free car loan up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, and access to discounts from hundreds of other retailers. There is also an Employee Assistance Programme.

Moments that matter are important to us, which is why we offer up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).