PFS Specialist Admin Support

Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Sainsbury's is seeking a PFS Specialist Admin Support to join their Food Commercial team at the London Store Support Centre. The role involves data management, collaboration with stakeholders, and analytical reporting to enhance operational performance. The position is ideal for candidates passionate about food and excelling in fast-paced environments, with a clear path for career development and numerous employee benefits.

Benefits

Colleague discount

Pensions scheme

Life cover

Annual holiday allowance

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Ability to manage large datasets within Excel.
• Strong analytical skills to influence commercial decisions.
• Excellent people skills to build relationships.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the accurate entry of data into core systems.
• Support commercial activity as required.
• Produce Excel reports on sales and stock loss.

Skills

Excel

analytical skills

communication

data management

people skills

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 20 June 2025
Requisition ID: 400001732

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.

As a PFS Specialist Admin Support, you will play a crucial role in supporting the PFS Specialist team in creating, maintaining, and measuring product and category level sales and availability. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with multiple colleagues and contractors to ensure the highest possible reporting accuracy and maximise uptime to our customers. You will need to understand performance trends and leverage your strong analytical skills to support the PFS Specialists in influencing outcomes.

What you need to do

• You will be responsible for the accurate entry of data into core systems.
• Support commercial activity as required.
• Escalate inaccurate or missing data issues as required.
• Work with our tech and service partners to resolve issues.
• Act as second line support for Trading Assist and Central Team data queries.
• Maintain 100% accurate data concerning our remote manned H&S tests to ensure we are legally compliant.
• Run ad-hoc and regular reports as required by our central, retail and tech teams.
• Work closely with both our commercial teams and tech stakeholders to ensure that new ambitions are met and achieved right first time.
• Produce Excel reports reporting on sales and stock loss.
• Maximise fuel and valeting availability by liaising with contractors and stores.
• Manage the communications to stores and contractors for investment roll out programmes.
• Manage the Health and Safety testing programme at our remote manned sites.
• Process drive off and outstanding payment queries.
• Drive reporting to improve forecast accuracy.
• Collaborate with colleagues to drive accurate reporting and understand performance trends.
• Support the PFS Specialists in influencing outcomes through strong analytical skills.
• Contribute to creating an inclusive culture and actively participate in sharing best practices across the team.

What you need to know and show

• Excellent Excel and MS Office skills – Ability to manage large datasets within Exceland provide examples of
• Manage conflicting priorities of different stakeholders
• Good people skills and able to build great working relationships
• Ability to manage timely communications for projects
• Ability to track issues at a site level and chase for updates in a timely manner
• Ability to create, interpret, and use data to drive and influence commercial decisions.
• Ability to build new relationships and work collaboratively and communicate with stakeholders.
• Ability to deliver results to target as an individual and within a team.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving dynamic retail environment.

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 5% 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).