Clothing Central Merchandiser
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 11 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400044996
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.
Clothing Central Merchandiser
About the team
Our Clothing Commercial division is entering an exciting new phase of growth, focused on improving and optimising our operating model to support future business ambitions. Working at the heart of the commercial function, the Clothing Operations team brings together expertise across planning, governance and continuous improvement to create a more agile, collaborative and insightful way of working. You’ll join a team that champions innovation, supports smarter decision‑making and plays a key role in shaping how we plan, buy and trade our products.
More about the role
As a Clothing Central Merchandiser, you will contribute to enhanced decision‑making across the full product lifecycle, supporting categories and Supply Chain teams to improve availability, stock management and productivity. You’ll be responsible for facilitating our planning frameworks across Clothing, ensuring commercial teams are set up to achieve key targets and deliver the best possible customer outcomes.
You will oversee core processes within our Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP) system, including reporting, forecasting and system governance. Working closely with Sainsbury’s Tech and cross‑functional teams, you will help maintain and enhance our Anaplan capabilities, continuously seeking opportunities to improve functionality, best practice and ways of working.
More about you
You will bring strong commercial merchandising experience, with the ability to analyse complex data and translate insights into clear, actionable recommendations. You’ll be confident working cross‑functionally in a fast‑moving environment, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail.
You’ll be naturally curious, proactive and comfortable challenging existing ways of working to drive improvement. Building strong relationships and communicating effectively with stakeholders at all levels will be essential to your success in this role.
Essential criteria
• Ability to analyse complex data sets and present clear commercial recommendations.
• Strong & diverse commercial merchandising experience.
• Strong understanding of merchandising tools, forecasting and planning platforms.
• Proven capability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise effectively in a cross‑functional environment.
• Competence in producing high‑quality content and analysis using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Ability to support and improve planning frameworks, system processes and reporting tools.
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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 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).
