Overview

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits

Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA

Contract type: Permanent

Business area: Food Commercial

Closing date: 07 September 2025

Requisition ID: 400015589

What you’ll do

• As a Merchandiser for the General Merchandise team, you will execute a customer-facing, multi-channel merchandising strategy for your category/ranges, aligning with the overall commercial strategy to drive profitable growth.
• Analyse markets, customer profiles, and supplier knowledge to develop the category/range framework and create budgets that support the strategy.
• Continuously review performance, identify risks and opportunities, and contribute to trade reviews and post-implementation reviews.
• Manage stock levels, supply chain logistics, and supplier relationships; collaborate with cross-functional teams on activities such as space optimisation and joint business planning.
• Prioritise inbound and outbound stock flow, ensuring merchandising milestones are achieved within the critical path to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
• Apply commercial acumen, work under pressure, and use analytical and planning skills to drive the success of the category/ranges.

Based in our Coventry Store Support Centre 2 days a week.

Previous Merchandising experience required, preferably within a non-food multi-channel retail environment.

Previous experience delivering results to target as an individual and within a team.

Experience of working under pressure in a fast-moving dynamic retail environment.

What you need to know and show

• Confidence to influence and engage, building relationships with key stakeholders
• Organised with strong planning capabilities
• Able to identify problems and develop practical solutions
• Customer focused
• An ability to interpret data to make decisions
• Role model positive ways of working

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 of holiday. We also offer other benefits to 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 as access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. 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).