Digital Trading Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Digital
Closing date: 07 August 2025
Requisition ID: 400010321
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Our digital team is a big team that reaches millions of customers each week — with tangible results. It’s also a place where you could get to discover different parts of the business, as you’ll have every chance to experience more than one. The culture in Digital is one of failing fast and experimenting, so from trading through to merchandising and forecasting, you’ll be part of a truly agile environment.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Digital Trading Manager in the Food division offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to drive performance and growth across digital channels, shaping the customer experience and contributing to the broader business strategy. You will be part of a dynamic and collaborative team, leveraging your commercial acumen and influencing skills to execute comprehensive digital strategies, optimise key performance indicators, and drive continuous improvement through insight-driven initiatives. With a focus on innovation, development, and strategic planning, this role provides a platform for personal and professional growth within a forward-thinking and customer-centric organisation.
What you'll do
As a Digital Trading Manager at Sainsbury's, you will be accountable for owning and driving the performance and growth of your assigned categories across digital channels. Your role will involve developing and executing a comprehensive digital strategy, driving improvements in digital KPIs aligned with business targets, and utilising trading levers to enhance visibility, conversion, sales, and profit. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to enhance digital metrics and commercial outcomes, encourage an insight-driven culture, and lead 'test and learn' activities. Additionally, you will play a key role in shaping future journey and optimisation strategies, collaborating with various teams to ensure the digital component aligns with broader business objectives. Your role will also involve strategic planning, commercial collaboration, competitor awareness, and team leadership to drive digital success and contribute to overall business growth.
Who you are
As a Digital Trading Manager for Sainsbury's, you are a passionate and customer-focused e-commerce professional with a drive for optimising digital strategies to enhance business performance and deliver exceptional customer experiences. With a strong analytical mindset and robust decision-making skills, you excel in developing and executing comprehensive digital strategies across categories, leveraging data and insights to drive visibility, conversion, sales, and profit. Your ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders at various levels, combined with your commitment to personal and team development, positions you as a key player in shaping and driving the digital trading agenda within the organisation.
Essential skills
- Develop and execute digital strategies across relevant categories.
- Drive improvements in digital KPIs aligned with business goals.
- Leverage tools and insights to enhance digital and commercial performance.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with tech, merchandising, and design teams.
- Lead key projects to boost digital metrics and outcomes.
- Use data and analytics for category planning and promotional activities.
- Monitor performance to identify trading risks and opportunities.
- Coach and develop the team, ensuring clear targets and consistent reporting.
*Please note we may close the advert early if we experience a high volume of applicants.
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).
