Merchandiser - Womenswear Wovens

Retail; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pensions & life cover

Performance bonus (up to 10%)

Holiday allowance + buy extra week

Season ticket loan

Cycle to work scheme

Health cash plans

Employee assistance programme

Maternity/adoption pay up to 26 weeks

Paternity pay up to 4 weeks

Job summary

Sainsbury's is seeking a Merchandiser for Womenswear Wovens on a permanent basis, joining the Clothing team to shape ranges across channels. You’ll own customer-led merchandising strategy, analyse data, manage budgets, and collaborate with Buyers, Design, Supply Chain and suppliers to drive performance.

In this fast-paced retail environment, you’ll work to improve stock flow and availability, delivering planned milestones while applying customer insight to every decision.

Qualifications

• Previous merchandising experience, ideally clothing
• Strong analytical skills and confidence with data
• Experience delivering results to target as an individual and as part of a team
• Comfortable working under pressure in a fast-moving retail environment
• Ability to influence and build strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Highly organised with strong planning and problem-solving capabilities
• Customer-focused with a positive, collaborative approach

Responsibilities

• Deliver a customer-led merchandising strategy for your category across Clothing
• Use data, trends and customer insight to inform decisions and budgets
• Collaborate with Buying, Design, Supply Chain, Retail and suppliers to optimise stock and availability
• Review performance regularly and identify risks and opportunities for trade conversations
• Forecasting, trading and supporting product decisions to bring standout ranges to customers
• Balance range development with commercial milestones in the critical path

Skills

Merchandising experience

Data analytics

Results oriented

Stakeholder management

Organised

Customer focused

Communication

Job description

Merchandiser - Womenswear Wovens - Permanent

We’re growing our Clothing team and have an exciting Merchandiser opportunity within Clothing. In this role, you’ll be right at the centre of how we plan, build and deliver ranges that truly connect with our customers. You’ll shape decisions, improve stock flow and influence the commercial direction of your category, working closely with buyers, suppliers and cross‑functional partners to drive performance. If you bring a merchandising background ideally within clothing and want to play a key role in how our ranges come to life across all channels, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a team that values product, pace and customer insight.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you’ll take ownership of delivering a customer‑led merchandising strategy for your category, ensuring we build balanced and commercial ranges across Clothing. You’ll use data, trends and customer insight to inform decisions, manage budgets and understand what truly drives performance. You’ll work closely with Buying, Design, Supply Chain, Retail and suppliers to keep stock flowing, optimise availability, and deliver to key milestones in the critical path. You’ll review performance regularly, identifying risks and opportunities that help shape trade conversations, planning cycles and future ranges. From forecasting and trading to supporting great product decisions, you’ll be at the heart of bringing standout clothing ranges to our customers.

Who You Are

You’re someone with a passion for product and a natural curiosity about what makes customers buy. You bring experience in merchandising, ideally within clothing and you’re confident working with data to guide your thinking. You enjoy collaborating with buyers, suppliers and wider teams, using your communication skills to bring clarity and drive aligned decisions. You’re organised, proactive and thrive in a fast‑moving retail environment where you can influence results and see your work come to life in‑store. Above all, you care about delivering great customer experiences and want to develop your career in a team that values creativity, pace and teamwork.

Essential Criteria

• Previous merchandising experience (clothing experience strongly preferred)
• Strong analytical skills and confidence working with data
• Experience delivering results to target as an individual and as part of a team
• Comfortable working under pressure in a fast‑moving retail environment
• Ability to influence and build strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Highly organised with strong planning and problem‑solving capabilities
• Customer‑focused with a positive, collaborative approach

You’ll split your time between home and Coventry, coming into the office when it matters most for collaboration and business needs.

Commercial

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 in Sainsbury’s Commercial. From product, proposition, packaging and price, to whether it meets our sustainability commitments or simply tastes great, our team is responsible for, all food, non- food and Clothing items available in Sainsbury’s stores, online and on demand. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment. People here are in it together and aren’t afraid to take risks. 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 your products and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.

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.

Benefits

• 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).