Assistant Buyer

1 week ago


Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time £25,000 - £40,000 per year
Description

Our Babywear Buying team plays a vital role in creating products that parents trust. By joining this passionate and collaborative team, you'll help shape a range that combines style, comfort, and safety for little ones. You'll be part of a fast-paced environment where your ideas will make a real impact. As an Assistant Buyer, you'll be at the heart of product development, working closely with design and sourcing teams to bring innovative ideas to life. This is your chance to influence a category that matters to parents everywhere, while showcasing your analytical skills, negotiation ability, and commercial awareness.

What you'll do

  • Drive the development of promotional strategies for the next 12 months
  • Ensure pricing accuracy across all channels
  • Curate a babywear range that prioritises safety, comfort, and durability
  • Collaborate with Product Development and global sourcing to uphold strict quality standards
  • Build strong relationships with UK suppliers and manage sample processes
  • Keep everything running smoothly with efficient admin and sample management

Who you are

You're passionate about creating products that make a difference. With experience in buying—ideally within retail—you understand product ranges, market trends, and the importance of commercial thinking. You're analytical, organised, and confident negotiating with suppliers. Most importantly, you're proactive and thrive under pressure, helping deliver safe, stylish, and high-quality products that parents trust.

Essential criteria

  • Previous buying experience (clothing preferred)
  • Strong analytical and numerical skills
Responsibilities

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 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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply). 



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