Retail Events Manager (Supply Chain)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 04 July 2025
Requisition ID: 400003996
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's Retail Events team means being part of a dynamic and customer-centric environment where you will lead and inspire a talented team to deliver exceptional service and drive impactful initiatives across the UK. As a key player in the fresh and grocery supply chain, you will have the opportunity to influence key stakeholders, develop innovative solutions, and drive continuous improvement in processes and technologies. With a focus on performance excellence, team development, and industry knowledge with in food supply chain, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of retail events while fostering a culture of collaboration and success.
What you'll do
Our Retail Events function sits with in our fresh and grocery supply chain team and leads large scale product activation initiatives in our stores across the breadth of the UK.
You will lead a team of 12 analyst's and work across our across food business, build strong relationships with our Retail, Commercial, Logistics and wider Supply Chain teams to deliver on our availability and sales whilst managing the cost lines across key events. continually look to improve processes and systemic functionality, applying a customer and commercial focus to local events, driving the retail event function forward.
Your role will involve driving a performance edge culture, demonstrating year-on-year improvements in service levels, business KPIs, and continuous improvement within the supply chain and retail management context. Building strong relationships with key stakeholders, you will focus on enhancing customer experience, driving continuous improvement targets and KPIs, and coaching team members to achieve personal and corporate targets. Additionally, you will lead the team in delivering support for Ad Hoc queries, ensuring consistent ways of working and fostering store closeness and depot engagement while simplifying processes, driving efficiencies, and contributing to a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.
Who you are
We are looking for a strategic leader with a proven track record in driving performance excellence and customer-focused outcomes within the food retail/food supply chain sector. Your ability to inspire and lead a team, coupled with your strong network and influencing skills, enables you to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels and drive continuous improvement in processes and technology. With a keen industry understanding, technical expertise, and a passion for data-driven decision-making, you excel in developing team capabilities, simplifying processes, and delivering operational efficiencies while maintaining a customer-centric approach in all aspects of event planning and execution.
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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).
