Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 24 November 2024
Requisition ID: 275399
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves, anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Senior Buyer for Plants means becoming an integral part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team dedicated to delivering sustainable growth and innovation within the Produce category. With a focus on developing a market-leading customer offer and driving key performance targets, you will have the opportunity to influence strategic decisions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and shape the future of a best-in-class product range. At Sainsbury's, we value accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement, offering a supportive environment where your expertise, passion for plants, and commercial acumen can thrive to make a significant impact on our business and customers.
What you'll do
As the Senior Buyer for the Plants category at Sainsbury's, you will be tasked with owning, delivering, and optimising the buying and selling strategy for the product area, aligning with Sainsbury's Win in Food strategy. Your focus will be on achieving sales, volume market share, and cash profit targets while delivering a market-leading, best-in-class customer offer. You will work cross-functionally to review the product range, identify opportunities for product quality improvement, and collaborate with the supply base and Product Developers to develop a compelling customer offer. There are some great projects that you will get to lead and with your creative flair you will directly impact our customers by your varied product ranges. Your role will involve making complex commercial decisions at speed, developing relationships with key stakeholders, and leading cross-functional projects to drive success in Plants.
Who you are
You are a seasoned Buying professional with a strong commercial acumen, in-depth knowledge of trading dynamics, and proved experience of driving business growth through strategic buying and selling strategies. You will have a passion for plants and it is desirable that you have worked with Plants before. Your ability to analyse financial, market, and customer data allows you to identify opportunities and make informed decisions, while your expertise in negotiation, supplier management, and category planning ensures the delivery of a market-leading customer offer. With a track record of accountability, excellent judgement, and effective communication, you excel in building strong cross-functional relationships and driving performance to achieve key KPI targets for market share growth, sales, profit, and value index.
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 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 pay day. 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 20% 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 additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
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.
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