Brand Growth Executive
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 05 May 2025
Requisition ID: 296368
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.
Why join us
Joining the Brand Growth Team at Sainsbury's offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of driving sustainable growth for our food & drink ranges, both for our own brand and innovative emerging brands. As a Brand Growth Executive, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of exceptional customer experiences and contributing to strategic growth initiatives, working closely with cross-functional teams to unlock and optimise growth opportunities. With a focus on continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer-centric innovation, this role provides a dynamic environment where you can make a tangible impact and drive the success of our brands across Sainsbury's channels.
What you'll do
You will play a crucial role in supporting the growth ambitions and key objectives for the Sainsbury's portfolio of products across the food & drink brands. Working closely with Brand Growth Managers, commercial teams, and marketing, you will contribute to delivering a brilliant customer experience for our brands across all Sainsbury's channels, aligning with the key growth initiatives of 'only @ brands at Sainsbury's'. Your responsibilities will include supporting the integration of Brand Growth Plans into the First Choice for Food ambition and existing business processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams to manage agendas and progress effectively, providing central project management, and engaging relevant stakeholders in the development and execution of growth plans. Additionally, you will support ongoing performance and action focus through data insights, driving data-led decision-making and action planning for all stakeholders.
Who you are
As a Brand Growth Executive at Sainsbury's, you are a strategic and results-driven professional with a strong background in commercial brand strategies and growth plans within the retail, FMCG, or manufacturing industry. Your expertise in project management, end-to-end project delivery, and IT systems, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, enables you to support Brand Growth Managers and the Head of Central Innovation in driving sustainable growth and delivering exceptional customer experiences for Sainsbury ’ s own brand portfolio. With your customer-focused mindset, excellent communication skills, and ability to analyse complex data to inform decision-making, you play a key role in unlocking growth opportunities and driving continual improvement within the Brand Growth team.
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 10% 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).
