Logistics Systems Process Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Rye Park Depot and Home, Hertfordshire, EN11 0EZ
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 17 August 2025
Requisition ID: 300186
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work/life balance. That’s waiting for you right here. Supply Chain and Logistics are the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories, through the business and to our millions of customers every day. We plan around events from barbecue weekends to Sunday roasts, and who wants oven-ready cauliflower cheese to those who prefer to make it from scratch. Insight and data are everything. But so is judgement — if there’s an issue or ambiguity anywhere, we’re the first to spot it. There’s a big transformation going on. That calls for people who champion change, bring others with them, collaborate and communicate. Because those people can go a very long way.
Please note that this role is a fixed-term assignment lasting between 12 to 24 months.
Working in the Logistics Systems team, the Process Manager will support the business team with understanding/mapping how the logistics operations work today with its current tools/technologies and identify areas where improvements can be made. The Process Manager will also help to identify different ways of working across different sites/teams, identifying the opportunities for standardisation or confirming deviations from a standard are required. The role will play an important part in a multiyear programme to replace Sainsbury’s Food WMS across the network, and help with considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology aspects.
The Process Manager will work with the business teams and work closely with the on-site operations within depots. They will also collaborate with Sainsbury’s Tech teams to agree ways of working with Tech and utilise the right tools and resources.
What you need to do
- Be responsible for documenting appropriately findings, and be comfortable in the various formats of presentation –process maps, excel spreadsheets, user stories etc.
- Continually explore and understand best in class solutions that could be adopted or tailored for delivery within the business.
- Understand the impact of any changes on the business highlighting potential areas of contention and risk.
- Identify areas for process automation/improvement and document change and benefit. Including people, process, systems, data impacts etc.
- Attend requirements and design Initiation workshops to feed in results of current and future state proposals to ensure designs and architecture are fit for purpose.
- Use specialist business, and systems knowledge to consider impacts on other processes/systems, considering the complete end to end processes and systems.
- Engage and co-ordinate with all parties on workshops and process mapping sessions, engaging with stakeholders to ensure the right business teams and experts are represented.
- Identify where changes in in the approach may improve the end outputs.
- Input into the format and structure of discovery sessions working alongside Sainsbury’s Tech.
- Obtain sign off for all accountable deliverables. Ensure that all phases have appropriate entry/exit criteria and monitors achievement of those criteria.
- Monitor and report on progress to all relevant stakeholders.
- Work collaboratively with technology and business counterparts to resolve any issues around the solution and ensure a successful delivery.
What you need to know and show
- Has a firm understanding of process management techniques and approaches.
- Has a good understanding of organisational awareness & industry context.
- Has a strong technical aptitude with a strong practical experience of SDLC.
- Ability to co-ordinate multiple activities and workstreams.
- Good focus on continuous improvement.
- Has strong attention to detail.
- High level of business acumen.
- Strong supply/logistics/warehousing systems background.
- Ability to lead and influence small/medium teams.
- Strong Stakeholder management skills.
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).
