Format Delivery Project Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, Coventry, CV1 1FL
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Transformation
Closing date: 19 August 2026
Requisition ID: 400073689
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.
This role requires nationwide travel which flexes throughout the year, but typically you’ll be in Sainsbury’s sites 2 days per week, and desk-based for the rest of the week (working from home, or in a Store Support Centre).
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Format Delivery Project Manager means becoming part of a dynamic team dedicated to delivering customer-focused, brand-aligned, and commercially viable store implementation packs. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and communication, you'll have the opportunity to lead end-to-end project delivery. By fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, we provide a supportive environment where you can contribute your expertise and skills to deliver exceptional outcomes and positively impact the customer experience.
What you'll do
You’ll lead and deliver store implementation packs to support our Estate wide investment programme. These will be customer-focused, deliver our agreed brand toolkit, be commercially viable and completed on time and within budget. You’ll work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to ensure that store specific scopes meet agreed Sainsbury's brand standards, customer commitments, and operational requirements. You’ll coordinate stakeholders, attend scoping meetings, provide guidance on desired outcomes, prepare design proposals, maintain project documentation, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to simplify processes and enhance customer outcomes. You’ll ensure the successful delivery of design-led investment projects in a retail environment while effectively managing project parameters such as cost, programme, risk, and stakeholder relationships.
Who you are
You have a proven track record of successfully delivering design-led projects in retail, commercial, or built environment settings. With a strong understanding of project management principles, you excel in coordinating internal and external stakeholders to ensure that agreed design solutions are consistently delivered. Your ability to interpret briefs and communicate effectively, enables you to lead end-to-end project delivery, make informed decisions, and deliver exceptional store implementation packs that enhance the overall Sainsbury’s customer experience.
Essential Criteria
- Previously delivered high volume, design-led physical change projects in retail, commercial, or built environment settings.
- Demonstrable experience delivering end-to-end design-led projects, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, timescales and budgets.
- Experience interpreting project briefs and consistently applying an agreed design toolkit to achieve the project outcome
- Evidence of coordinating and communicating with internal stakeholders and external partners.
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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).
