Supply Analyst - Grocery
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 19 September 2025
Requisition ID: 400018265
- Maintain systemic parameters to ensure accurate supplier purchase order generation reducing the need for manual intervention to a minimum.
- Provide root cause analysis and investigation of trended data in relation to various KPIs such as sales, availability, waste, and stockholding in order to achieve the optimum customer experience across our retail channels, and also to inform and influence the strategic direction of the commercial category.
- Contribute toward ‘Cost to Serve’ objectives through ongoing and continuous engagement with the supply base, identifying Supply Chain efficiencies and implement initiatives to deliver Cost of Goods (COGs) reductions.
- Carefully manage working capital expenditure adhering to budgets set.
- Plan, communicate, implement, and review the implementation of seasonal events and range updates to ensure shared objectives are met and KPIs achieved, relentlessly striving to improve performance.
- Drive consistent, proactive ways of working across our supply base and logistics network to support the delivery of shared objectives, maintaining positive and productive relationships with all stakeholders.
- Own the performance of your category profile, be curious and seek opportunities, to constantly find ways to improve performance, simplify and save.
- Ensure thorough governance over category profile, with regular and effective cross functional business partnership. Set objectives and contribute towards strategic category development plans, whilst ensuring Supply Chain objectives are understood and met.
- Maintain a customer and retail focused lens, throughout decision making processes.
- Accountable for ongoing and continuous commitment to personal and professional development by maintaining a personal development plan, regularly seeking, and providing feedback and supporting other colleagues in their personal development.
- Support the identification and implementation of initiatives, events, processes, and ways of working that will contribute to making Supply Chain “a Great Place to Work”.
- Liaise regularly with Subject Matter Experts to maximise knowledge.
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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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).
