Convenience Category Partner
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 26 March 2025
Requisition ID: 294263
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.
In the Convenience Category Team, we are responsible for partnering with categories to deliver a market-winning selling proposition across Sainsbury’s Local stores. We set the strategic direction and manage delivery of product ranges, value credentials and propositions that best support our varying customer base, giving customers’ a reason to shop with us time and time again.
We are a team of strategic thinkers who have a keen eye for analysing performance and are passionate about Sainsbury’s Local customers. We are collaborative, highly cross-functional and use our channel expertise to build an ambitious category plan with the wider trading team which aims to drive channel sales, volume, and profit ahead of our competitive set and keeps the customer at the heart of what we do.
As the Convenience Category Partner, you will partner with cross functional teams of categories within the Fresh/Grocery business units. In conjunction, there will be a key role to play on value, working with the Category Teams and alongside the Convenience Category Planning to ensure we are well set up throughout the year across both value reality and value perception.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintains and delivers the Convenience Category plans
- Forges strong working relationship with category teams and directly links into categories to gain buy-in of selling strategies and make them happen
- Builds an understanding of designated categories performance and works with category, suppliers, and insights teams to optimise range to match customer base
- Seeks timely feedback across key stakeholders and amends plans appropriately
- Project manages the end-to-end customer proposition from conception into store
- Proactively reviews range performance, sharing with key stakeholders and iterating plans as necessary
- Shares performance insight with Value and Propositions team to collectively build plans to address performance opportunities beyond ranging
- Keeps Commercial Lead updated on plans and performance for designated categories
Essential Skills
- Effectively assimilates performance data, spots opportunities, and sets effective strategies that they review and iterate
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Highly organised
- Pro-active, a self-starter and solution-focused
- Strong collaborator
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: 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.
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.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
