Senior Buyer

1 month ago

Coventry, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time

Why join us


Join us at Sainsbury's as a Senior Buyer in our General Merchandise division and become an integral part of a passionate and dynamic team dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experiences. As a lead buying role, your expertise wilul drive profitable growth by shaping category strategies, executing range selections, and optimising product propositions across channels. Thrive in a collaborative environment where your insights and commercial acumen can influence market trends, foster supplier relationships, and deliver outstanding results. Enjoy the opportunity to lead and develop a high-performing team while contributing to the overall success of one of the UK's largest multi-brand businesses, where your talents and skills are valued and recognised.

What you'll do


As a C5 Senior Buyer in the GM Commercial division at Sainsbury's, you will lead the buying function, translating category strategies into profitable growth initiatives for product ranges. By collaborating with cross-functional teams such as product development, design, and global sourcing, you will guide the creation of customer-driven strategic visions, develop well-designed product ranges, and ensure the optimal balance between quality and price for own-label products. Your role will involve range building, range selection, product proposition, and planned executions across all channels, with a focus on delivering a customer-centric proposition and achieving target KPIs including sales, margin, stock, availability, and customer satisfaction. Additionally, you will manage pricing strategies, negotiate supplier funding, and work towards enhancing profitability through effective trading plans and joint business plans with suppliers. Leading and developing a high-performing buying team, you will play a key role in executing range launches, promotions, and events while contributing to the financial management and success of the category.

Who you are


As a C5 Senior Buyer for GM within Sainsbury's GM Commercial division, you are a seasoned professional with a strong commercial acumen and a proven track record in buying, preferably within a non-food omni-channel setting. Your ability to analyse complex data, understand market trends, and influence stakeholders at various levels enables you to develop and execute category strategies that drive profitable growth and deliver exceptional customer propositions. With your leadership skills, strategic mindset, and adaptability in balancing short and long-term objectives, you are adept at managing high-performing teams, navigating dynamic retail environments, and making impactful decisions that positively influence shareholder value, product performance, and team development.

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. From fragrance to car care, clothing and pots and pans, our General Merchandise team delivers all the non-food items for Sainsbury’s, Habitat and Argos customers. This multi-brand environment means you get to work across most areas. You can also be a pioneer, because the team believes in being brave, iterating and learning as they go. They also develop deep connections to other departments, which opens up a lot of different career opportunities for you. What’s certain is that you’ll spend time on the shop floor to get closer to customers, and bring a broad perspective and the full support of your manager with you wherever you decide to develop next.

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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 additional holiday. 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, pay 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

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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