• Job Description

  Req#: 264867

  Why join us

  Joining Sainsbury's Buying Teams means being part of a dedicated and friendly group working towards a mission that truly matters: Helping Everyone Eat Better. As a Buyer, you will have the opportunity to own, deliver, and optimise the buying and selling strategy within a specific category, contributing to the sustainable growth of market share and cash profit. Collaborating across functions, you will leverage your commercial acumen and analytical skills to drive product improvement, develop new offerings, and identify cost savings. With a focus on customer-centricity, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the product range, influencing stakeholders, and making key decisions to enhance our customers' experience. Join us and be part of a team committed to delivering quality and value, while enjoying a flexible work-life balance and a culture that fosters continuous learning and growth.

  What you'll do

  As a Senior Buyer within the World Foods team at Sainsbury’s, you will own, deliver and optimise the buying and selling strategy for key areas within a high growth, fast paced category, including our Far East South East Asian, Eastern European, Kosher & Irish ranges. You will play a pivotal role in stepping on our World Foods proposition, owning and delivering a strategy that will support Sainsbury’s to become First Choice for customers, and deliver our ‘Good Food for All of Us’ purpose.

  • Negotiate across a broad and complex supply base, showcasing an adaptable approach that advances positive supplier relationships.
  • Manage multi-temperature state categories across Grocery, Chilled & Frozen, negotiating cost savings and trade plans across a diverse assortment. With an eye for detail, you will ensure we deliver the best quality ranges and value to our customers.
  • Analyse financial, market and customer data with confidence, navigating ambiguity, identifying opportunities and making decisions that deliver positive results.
  • Influence key stakeholders across the business to drive engagement and commitment to delivering our First Choice for World Foods strategy, through effective communication and collaboration.
  • Deliver ambitious market-leading events propositions, working effectively cross functionally to deliver successful outcomes in key events such as Lunar New Year and Passover.
  • Work with range analysts to build appropriate product ranges that deliver commercial advantages and meet the needs of our diverse customers.
  • Deliver to business targets on sales, profit, value and market share.

  Who you are

  • Experienced in owning and delivering successful buying & selling strategies.
  • A highly organised individual who is comfortable dealing with a broad assortment and supply base. You will be able to prioritise effectively to deliver optimal outcomes for the business and our customers.
  • High levels of resilience and adaptability
  • Strong commercial acumen with a drive to make things better and deliver ambitious plans for our World Foods Customers.
  • An effective communicator who can lead and advance projects with cross functional stakeholders, collaborating and influencing to drive positive results.
  • Experienced in delivering successful commercial and customer outcomes from complex negotiations.
  • Comfortable analysing a range of different information sources to make decisions that advance plans in line with our wider strategy.

  Qualifications

  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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 20% 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 additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

  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).

  Responsibilities

  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.

• About the company

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