Clothing Optimisation Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Non Food
Closing date: 24 June 2025
Requisition ID: 4000010772270
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.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Clothing Optimisation Manager means being a crucial part of our clothing division's growth journey, where we are focused on enhancing range planning, buying, and sourcing to elevate availability and efficiency. In this high-impact role, you will lead the way in implementing best practises to drive profitable and sustainable growth, making faster, more informed decisions. Working collaboratively with various teams, you will streamline processes, ensuring strong availability, speed to market, and customer value while optimising efficiency. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of driving change, innovation, and excellence in a dynamic and future-focused environment.
What you'll do
As the Clothing Optimisation Manager at Sainsbury's, you will be accountable for leading the Commercial Excellence workstream within the clothing division, focusing on driving collaboration and agility across various functional teams to deliver on the Clothing Strategic Pillars. Your role will involve defining and implementing best practises to streamline product creation and execution processes, ensuring efficient and cost-effective product launches. You will review and reshape job roles within Buying, design & merchandising, provide necessary training and support to drive effective change, and influence senior governance forums by articulating progress and future opportunities. Your strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management skills, and ability to drive operational change will be essential in promoting unity, collaboration, and process improvements across the organisation.
What I need to know
Essential
• Proven experience and extensive knowledge of product design, development and buying process
• Project & change management experience
Desirable
• Strong skillset in data analysis with the ability to identify risks and opportunities
• Financial and commerical acumen
What I need to show
• Strong leadership in line with Sainsburys leadership performance expectations
• Ability to drive and adapt to change effectively through strong communication
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with a strong ability to lead operational change and implement process improvements across a wide network of teams
• Bring unity and collaboration
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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 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, 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).
