Partnerships Executive
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type:
Business area: Sainsbury's Commercial & Sustainability
Closing date: 19 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400068716
Please note that this is a fixed-term opportunity for up to 12 months.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Partnership Executive means being part of a dedicated team that is committed to making a positive impact on communities and tackling food poverty. You will have the opportunity to work closely with key partners like Comic Relief, developing impactful social campaigns and fostering strong relationships to drive meaningful change. By leveraging your skills in project management, stakeholder engagement, and strategic thinking, you will play a vital role in delivering successful partnerships that benefit both customers and colleagues, while contributing to our mission of providing Good Food for All of Us.
What you'll do
As a Partnership Executive at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Senior Community and Partnerships Manager in developing and executing impact campaigns with key corporate partner Comic Relief, as well as other strategic partners, to address food poverty within our communities. Your responsibilities will include overseeing relationships with partners, driving fundraising efforts across various channels, coordinating activation plans and campaigns, ensuring accurate donation processing, and fostering internal and external relationships to deliver on our commitments and generate positive social impact. Additionally, you will be integral in managing the Partnerships budget, anticipating risks, and serving as the ambassador for our food poverty community programme and partnership with Comic Relief across the organisation, driving awareness and alignment.
Who you are
You are a dedicated professional with a passion for driving social impact and building meaningful relationships with corporate charity partners to address food poverty in communities. With previous experience in developing effective social impact campaigns and strong project management skills, you thrive in a fast-paced retail environment and excel in prioritising tasks, influencing stakeholders, and ensuring the successful execution of impactful initiatives. Your attention to detail, communication skills, and ability to think strategically make you a valuable asset in coordinating partnerships, driving fundraising efforts, and ensuring the delivery of impactful campaigns that resonate with customers, colleagues, and key stakeholders.
Essential Criteria
- Current demonstrable experience working within the retail sector, with a strong understanding of customer needs and how to deliver social activity that resonates with customers and communities.
- Experience working alongside charity partners to develop and deliver social impact activities or campaigns.
- Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver at pace.
- Ability to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships across different teams and partner organisations.
- Excellent attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Self-motivated, resilient and comfortable working under pressure in a fast-paced retail environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with creative thinking and copywriting experience
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).
