SDF Commercial Admin Assistant

Sainsbury's; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is looking for a detail-oriented Commercial Admin Assistant to provide administrative support in a dynamic retail environment. Responsibilities include supporting pricing and promotional plans, maintaining records, and collaborating with teams. Ideal candidates will have strong skills in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and excellent organizational abilities. This part-time role allows for hybrid working, requiring on-site presence twice a week.

Benefits

Colleague discount of 10%

Performance-related bonus

Annual holiday allowance

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Microsoft Office with intermediate skills in Excel including vlookups and pivots.
• Ability to manage and prioritize tasks in a busy environment.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive administrative support to the Stockless Team.
• Support pricing and promotional plans, maintain accurate records.
• Collaborate with suppliers and track critical path milestones.
• Monitor market trends and ensure accurate promotional administration.

Skills

Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

Organizational skills

Time management

Communication skills

Data analysis

Job description

Overview

Joining Sainsbury's as an SDF Commercial Admin Assistant means being part of a dynamic and innovative team that plays a crucial role in driving the overall performance of the business unit. With a focus on providing comprehensive administrative support to the Stockless Team and key category partners, you will have the opportunity to contribute to a new and growing area of the Argos business, while gaining valuable experience in pricing, promotional planning, and supplier management. This role offers a diverse range of responsibilities and the chance to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, enhancing your skills in commercial acumen, stakeholder management, and analytical thinking. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding role that allows you to make a real difference in a fast-paced retail environment, then joining our team could be the perfect opportunity for you.

What you\'ll do

As the Commercial Admin Assistant at Sainsbury\'s, you will play a crucial role in providing comprehensive administrative support to the Stockless Team and key category partners, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and within company timescales to drive overall performance in the business unit. This dynamic position will involve a diverse range of responsibilities, including supporting pricing and promotional plans, reviewing competitor pricing, maintaining accurate records, collaborating with suppliers, tracking critical path milestones, liaising with internal and external stakeholders, monitoring market trends, and ensuring efficient promotional and pricing administration. Your strong numerical skills, commercial acumen, stakeholder management abilities, and excellent organisational and communication skills will be essential as you contribute to the success of this new and growing area of the Argos business.

Who you are

As a Commercial Admin Assistant at Sainsbury\'s, you are a detail-oriented and proactive individual with a strong commercial acumen and the ability to interpret and analyse data effectively to drive decision-making processes. Your exceptional organisational and time management skills, coupled with your excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities, enable you to support the Stockless Team and key category partners in delivering promotional plans, monitoring competitor pricing, and ensuring data integrity in line with company targets. With a keen interest in buying and account management responsibilities, you demonstrate a proactive and self-motivated approach, consistently striving to enhance performance and support the broader team in achieving category targets and milestones. MS Office skills required with an emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint

Essential Criteria

• Proven experience in Microsoft office (Excel, PowerPoint) – intermediate skills required including vlookups and pivots
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple tasks, will thrive in a busy environment and maintain data accuracy
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - ability to contribute to meetings, update team on progress and outstanding actions.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, a team player who can work with multiple stakeholders and can manage and adapt to competing priorities.
• Hybrid working - required on site twice a week.

Part time/job share may be possible

Benefits and Additional Information

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 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).

Responsibilities

Joining the team at Argos, you\'ll find yourself at the forefront of UK retail, in a brand that is loved by millions of customers across the country. Argos is a market leader in the general merchandise sector, with the third most visited retail website and a market leading same day delivery and click&collect service. Whether it\'s working across our amazing owned-brands of Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, or working with the biggest global consumer brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox or Samsung, we have a breadth of opportunity to nurture your career. The Argos Commercial teams work closely with many other functions across the business like Digital, Marketing, Retail and Logistics to deliver for our customers, allowing you to develop connections and learn from teams across the business. Development is important to us and you\’ll have the full support of your line manager in developing and growing your skill set and aiding your career aspirations.