Category Planner - Grocery Food
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 12 June 2025
Requisition ID: 400000175
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 our Category planning team at Sainsbury's offers an exciting opportunity to make a lasting impact on our customers and drive the success of our business. As a problem solver and strategic thinker, you will have the chance to drive performance by implementing innovative strategies, building strong relationships, and simplifying processes. This role will be within the Grocery Food category, a large team looking after our customers' favourite cupboard staples from crisps to condiments to cereal and will be focussed on shaping both our category and value strategy. We offer a flexible work-life balance, countless learning opportunities, and a supportive environment where you can thrive both personally and professionally.
What you'll do
This role within the Grocery Food Category Planning team will have two main responsibilities:
• You'll be supporting the creation and implementation of our category strategy through our category planning process and subsequent quarterly review meetings
• You'll also be the guardian of Grocery Food's value strategy, supporting the wider team to ensure we're investing in the products that matter most to our customers
They'll also be opportunities to lead ad hoc projects that are key to delivering the wider category strategy
Who you are
As a Category Planner for our Grocery Food division, you are a highly skilled professional with a strong commercial understanding and a keen eye for detail. Excellent communication and influence skills, strong organisational abilities, quick decision-making ability, and data interpretation skills will be crucial to excel in this role. We're looking for a strategic thinker with strong analytical & project management skills.
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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: 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.
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.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
