Pricing Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 22 July 2025
Requisition ID: 400005379
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 Sainsbury's as a Pricing Manager means being part of a dynamic and innovative team that is at the forefront of shaping pricing strategies across our channels. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, leveraging cutting-edge technology and data analytics to drive meaningful insights and influence decision-making. As a key member of the value team, you will play a crucial role in supporting commercial transformation and driving strategic change, all while receiving the support and resources necessary to excel in your role and contribute to the ongoing success of the business.
What you'll do
As a Pricing Manager at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in the value team by managing the pricing of our channels, as well as supporting the development of pricing capabilities and rulesets across Food Commercial based on strategic frameworks. Your responsibilities will include providing insight and decision-making support for value rulesets, collaborating with central analytical functions to enhance algorithmic capabilities, supporting commercial transformation, and influencing change across the organisation. Additionally, you will act as a subject matter expert on pricing analytics and insights, lead pricing management and performance reporting for channels, and provide specialist pricing and range support to drive strategic advice and channel pricing decisions.
Who you are
You are a seasoned professional with extensive knowledge of pricing strategies and a deep understanding of pricing analytics and business planning. With your expertise in analysing large datasets and generating meaningful insights, you excel in providing valuable decision-making support and driving commercial transformation through strategic pricing initiatives. Your strong stakeholder management and communication skills, coupled with your passion for retail markets and customer insights, enable you to lead cross-functional teams and champion change in a dynamic and competitive market landscape.
Essential Criteria
- Highly proficient in Pricing Analytics. A deep understanding and ability to curate algorithms, understand concepts and identify trends through data.
- Experience in senior management stakeholder engagement, sharing meaningful insights and presenting strategic pricing recommendations.
- Proven track record of driving commercial transformation through strategic pricing initiatives.
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams
- Capability to champion change in a dynamic and competitive market landscape
- Experience or passion in retail markets and customer insights.
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 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, 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).
