This is an amazing opportunity to enter Sainsbury's Location and Portfolio Planning team at ground level as an Associate Spatial Analytics Engineer. If you've got a proven interest in Spatial Analytics and/or Retail, and you are Geography, Mathematics or GIS student in your final year, or recent graduate, and you are looking for an opportunity to develop your knowledge and experience in a highly supportive environment, this could be just the right role for you. This is a permanent position with a start date in September 2025. Why join us You'll be part of a flexible, dynamic and innovative environment where spatial data plays a crucial role in shaping strategic decisions. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools and technologies, collaborate with diverse teams across the business, and contribute to the development and sharing of impactful mapping applications. We are committed to your continuous learning and technical development through supportive mentorship and in-house training. Once you've got your feet under the table, you'll have opportunity to explore other aspects of Location and Portfolio Planning so that you can shape your own path into other careers within Property What you'll do You'll support the team by maintaining and developing tools and data for efficient data analysis. You'll create maps and mapping applications to address strategic questions related to property data visualisation. Your responsibilities will include gathering requirements from the Property function, contributing to the curation of spatial data, monitoring technical issues, and collaborating with multiple teams across the organisation, showcasing your problem-solving skills and logical mindset in driving spatial data solutions and insights to enhance location planning applications. Who you are You are a detail-oriented professional with a proven interest in either Retail or spatial analytics, ideally Geography, Mathematics or GIS student in your final year, or recent graduate. You are proactive and self-motivated, you thrive in a collaborative environment and you'll contribute your skills and knowledge to drive innovation and continuous improvement within the team. 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. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's 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, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well 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 www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).