Buyer

Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Sainsbury's General Merchandise team as a Buyer, where you'll contribute to a dynamic environment focused on delivering quality products. This role emphasizes commercial awareness and collaboration, offering flexible working arrangements and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

10% discount at Sainsbury's after 4 weeks

15% discount on Fridays and Saturdays

Performance-related bonus up to 10%

Annual holiday allowance

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Previous Buying experience in a Non-Food Omni-channel environment.
• Ability to analyse complex data from multiple sources.
• Proven track record of delivering results.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Buyer in executing category strategy.
• Manage pricing and develop trading plans.
• Conduct regular store visits to ensure strategy delivery.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Analytical skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Relevant technical experience for given product range

Job description

Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd 33 Holborn, London Greater London, EC1N 2HT

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. From fragrance to car care, clothing and pots and pans, our General Merchandise team delivers all the non-food items for Sainsbury’s, Habitat and Argos customers. This multi-brand environment means you get to work across most areas. You can also be a pioneer, because the team believes in being brave, iterating and learning as they go. They also develop deep connections to other departments, which opens up a lot of different career opportunities for you. What’s certain is that you’ll spend time on the shop floor to get closer to customers, and bring a broad perspective and the full support of your manager with you wherever you decide to develop next.

Why join us
Joining our General Merchandise team at Argos as a Buyer offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to our 'brands that deliver' strategy. As part of a friendly, passionate team that loves all things Buying, you will play a crucial role in achieving our ambitious growth plans and providing customers with a great range of quality products at competitive prices. We prioritise work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including the option to work from home. As a Buyer, you will translate and execute category strategies, own target KPIs, foster relationships with stakeholders, and drive profitable growth. With a focus on customer-driven initiatives and a collaborative approach, you will have the opportunity to make an impact and deliver results in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Join us and become part of a team that values your expertise and offers endless opportunities for development and success.

What you'll do
Working closely with our product development and global sourcing teams, you will support the Senior Buyer and Buying Manager in translating and executing the category strategy for a given product range to drive profitable growth. You will take ownership of buying own brand and branded ranges, ensuring a customer-focused proposition and establishing strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of our strategy. Managing pricing, developing trading plans, and conducting regular store visits, you will contribute to achieving target KPIs such as sales, margin, stock, availability, digital metrics, and customer satisfaction. With your commercial awareness, passion for products, and strong analytical and numerical skills, you will drive product performance and make decisions based on customer feedback. By working collaboratively, communicating effectively, and demonstrating problem-solving skills, you will contribute to the success of our buying team and help us maintain a great work-life balance through flexible working arrangements.

Essential Criteria
•    Commercial awareness and previous Buying experience, within a Non-Food Omni-channel environment 
•    Knowledge of systems and processes in a complex multi-channel environment, adapt at operating across digital, store able to balance short and long-term objectives to deliver the category plan
•    Good degree of commercial acumen with a proven track record of commercial successes within this or other organisations 
•    A knowledge and understanding of Legal, competition law, anti-bribery and corruption, Intellectual Property and TSI
•    Ability to analyse complex data from multiple sources to drive decisions and strategies
•    Proven track record of delivering results to target as an individual and within a team 
•    Relevant technical experience for given product range 
•    Experience of working with suppliers on a FOB & domestic basis 
•    Financially astute understands how own business decisions can influence shareholder value, understand financial levers to drive product performance with category responsibility
•    Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving dynamic retail environment
•    Ability to identify market trends and opportunities, at pace
•    Confidence to influence and engage at all levels
•    Effective communicator, presenter, and team player with an ability to bring other with them to deliver the strategy
•    Relevant technical experience for given product range
 

 

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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 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 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 additional 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, 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.

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).

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Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Non Food
Closing date: 10 June 2025
Requisition ID: 300969

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. From fragrance to car care, clothing and pots and pans, our General Merchandise team delivers all the non-food items for Sainsbury’s, Habitat and Argos customers. This multi-brand environment means you get to work across most areas. You can also be a pioneer, because the team believes in being brave, iterating and learning as they go. They also develop deep connections to other departments, which opens up a lot of different career opportunities for you. What’s certain is that you’ll spend time on the shop floor to get closer to customers, and bring a broad perspective and the full support of your manager with you wherever you decide to develop next.

Why join us
Joining our General Merchandise team at Argos as a Buyer offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to our 'brands that deliver' strategy. As part of a friendly, passionate team that loves all things Buying, you will play a crucial role in achieving our ambitious growth plans and providing customers with a great range of quality products at competitive prices. We prioritise work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including the option to work from home. As a Buyer, you will translate and execute category strategies, own target KPIs, foster relationships with stakeholders, and drive profitable growth. With a focus on customer-driven initiatives and a collaborative approach, you will have the opportunity to make an impact and deliver results in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Join us and become part of a team that values your expertise and offers endless opportunities for development and success.

What you'll do
Working closely with our product development and global sourcing teams, you will support the Senior Buyer and Buying Manager in translating and executing the category strategy for a given product range to drive profitable growth. You will take ownership of buying own brand and branded ranges, ensuring a customer-focused proposition and establishing strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of our strategy. Managing pricing, developing trading plans, and conducting regular store visits, you will contribute to achieving target KPIs such as sales, margin, stock, availability, digital metrics, and customer satisfaction. With your commercial awareness, passion for products, and strong analytical and numerical skills, you will drive product performance and make decisions based on customer feedback. By working collaboratively, communicating effectively, and demonstrating problem-solving skills, you will contribute to the success of our buying team and help us maintain a great work-life balance through flexible working arrangements.

Essential Criteria
•Commercial awareness and previous Buying experience, within a Non-Food Omni-channel environment
•Knowledge of systems and processes in a complex multi-channel environment, adapt at operating across digital, store able to balance short and long-term objectives to deliver the category plan
•Good degree of commercial acumen with a proven track record of commercial successes within this or other organisations
•A knowledge and understanding of Legal, competition law, anti-bribery and corruption, Intellectual Property and TSI
•Ability to analyse complex data from multiple sources to drive decisions and strategies
•Proven track record of delivering results to target as an individual and within a team
•Relevant technical experience for given product range
•Experience of working with suppliers on a FOB & domestic basis
•Financially astute understands how own business decisions can influence shareholder value, understand financial levers to drive product performance with category responsibility
•Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving dynamic retail environment
•Ability to identify market trends and opportunities, at pace
•Confidence to influence and engage at all levels
•Effective communicator, presenter, and team player with an ability to bring other with them to deliver the strategy
•Relevant technical experience for given product range

#LI-MB1

#commercial

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 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 additional 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, 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.

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).