Strategic Sourcing Manager – Food
Job Description
Job title: Strategic Sourcing Manager – Food
Company: Sainsbury’s
Job description: Job Description:Why join us
By joining us as a Strategic Sourcing Manager at Sainsbury’s, you will play an integral role in delivering our corporate strategy and driving transformation across our proposition and cost base. You’ll have the opportunity to work on complex cross-functional projects, collaborating with both our branded and own-brand supply bases and making a real impact on our customers’ shopping experience. We offer a dynamic and supportive team environment, where you’ll have the chance to work across a variety of categories and gain valuable breadth of experience. With a focus on continuous improvement and development, you’ll be part of a motivated and high-performing team,,bringing together colleagues from management consultancy, industry and retail backgrounds, to support our trading teams in delivering their strategic goals contributing to our ambitious Plan for Better agenda. Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and personal growth, while making a difference in the world of retail.What you’ll do
In the role of Strategic Sourcing Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering Sainsbury’s corporate strategy of “Winning in Food.” You will lead complex cross-functional projects, analysing the value chain of our own-brand products and working collaboratively with trading teams to make strategic sourcing decisions. Your responsibilities will include managing a structured branded supplier investment process, driving cost of goods reduction, and introducing exciting new propositions in-store. As an ambassador for Sainsbury’s Plan for Better and other corporate objectives, you will provide support and challenge to the trading teams, ensuring aligned decision making and optimal outcomes. Additionally, you will take charge of programme management for up to three projects, overseeing timelines, budget, risks, and blockers, while working closely with our Food First and Trading Finance teams to drive cost of goods savings and improve margin performance. By immersing yourself within the category team and building relationships across functions, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of our support model and drive positive commercial outcomes.Who you are
As a Strategic Sourcing Manager within our Commercial Proposition Team, you are a highly motivated and strategic thinker with a passion for driving transformation and delivering exceptional value for Sainsbury’s and our suppliers. With your strong commercial acumen, natural leadership style, and ability to build credibility with stakeholders, you excel in leading complex cross-functional projects and making trade-off decisions that align with our corporate objectives, including our Plan for Better agenda. Your proven experience in successful project management, coupled with your proficiency in data analysis and ability to generate structured insights, enables you to drive cost reductions, develop innovative propositions, and improve our margin performance. As a collaborative team player, you thrive in a high-performance environment and are dedicated to continuous improvement and personal development.#HYBRID#LI-DN1Responsibilities: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.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 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 up to an additional week’s holiday, and we provide private heathcare. 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, 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 eligibiity criteria may apply).
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Location: London
