Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as an SDF Commercial Admin Assistant means being part of a dynamic and innovative team that plays a crucial role in driving the overall performance of the business unit. With a focus on providing comprehensive administrative support to the Stockless Team and key category partners, you will have the opportunity to contribute to a new and growing area of the Argos business, while gaining valuable experience in pricing, promotional planning, and supplier management. This role offers a diverse range of responsibilities and the chance to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, enhancing your skills in commercial acumen, stakeholder management, and analytical thinking. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding role that allows you to make a real difference in a fast-paced retail environment, then joining our team could be the perfect opportunity for you.
What you'll do
As the Commercial Admin Assistant at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in providing comprehensive administrative support to the Stockless Team and key category partners, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and within company timescales to drive overall performance in the business unit. This dynamic position will involve a diverse range of responsibilities, including:
1. Supporting pricing and promotional plans
2. Reviewing competitor pricing
3. Maintaining accurate records
4. Collaborating with suppliers
5. Tracking critical path milestones
6. Liaising with internal and external stakeholders
7. Monitoring market trends
8. Ensuring efficient promotional and pricing administration
Your strong numerical skills, commercial acumen, stakeholder management abilities, and excellent organisational and communication skills will be essential as you contribute to the success of this new and growing area of the Argos business.
Who you are
As a Commercial Admin Assistant at Sainsbury's, you are a detail-oriented and proactive individual with a strong commercial acumen and the ability to interpret and analyse data effectively to drive decision-making processes. Your exceptional organisational and time management skills, coupled with your excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities, enable you to support the Stockless Team and key category partners in delivering promotional plans, monitoring competitor pricing, and ensuring data integrity in line with company targets. With a keen interest in buying and account management responsibilities, you demonstrate a proactive and self-motivated approach, consistently striving to enhance performance and support the broader team in achieving category targets and milestones. MS Office skills required with an emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint.
Qualifications
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.
* Pensions scheme and life cover.
* Performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform.
* Annual holiday allowance and the option to buy up to an additional week's holiday.
* Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
* Employee assistance programme.
* 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).
Responsibilities
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. From fragrance to car care, clothing and pots and pans, our General Merchandise team delivers all the non-food items for Sainsbury’s, Habitat and Argos customers. This multi-brand environment means you get to work across most areas. You can also be a pioneer, because the team believes in being brave, iterating and learning as they go. They also develop deep connections to other departments, which opens up a lot of different career opportunities for you. What’s certain is that you’ll spend time on the shop floor to get closer to customers, and bring a broad perspective and the full support of your manager with you wherever you decide to develop next.
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