Logistics Systems Project Analyst
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 27 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400054069
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury’s as a Project Analyst within our Logistics Systems team means becoming part of a major multi‑year programme designed to modernise the technology that powers our logistics and transport operations. You will work at the centre of this transformation, partnering with Change, Operations and Technology teams to help shape how key strategic projects are delivered. This is a collaborative and fast‑moving environment where your analytical capabilities and problem‑solving skills will directly influence the success of high‑impact programmes. If you are motivated by technology‑enabled change and want to contribute to work that will make a tangible difference across Sainsbury’s, this role offers an excellent platform for growth.
What you'll do
In this role, you will support planning, tracking and delivery across the full project lifecycle, ensuring clear visibility of progress, risks and dependencies. You will gather information from multiple sources to create and maintain project plans and timelines, identify interdependencies, and ensure milestones are well defined. You will work closely with project teams to provide structured project management support, coordinate communications, and prepare clear status updates and documentation for stakeholders. You will take ownership of maintaining risk registers and issue logs, monitoring actions and facilitating resolution where needed. You will also play a key role in embedding consistent project management ways of working by collaborating with the Logistics PMO and Technology PMO teams to standardise processes. In addition, you will help prepare for key project events such as launch reviews, milestone checkpoints and post‑implementation evaluations, ensuring that benefits and outcomes are evidenced and clearly articulated. Throughout, you will look for opportunities to streamline ways of working, introduce automation, enhance reporting and support continuous improvement across the programme. You will also coordinate resource planning activities across the end‑to‑end programme, supporting teams to remain aligned and effective.
Who you are
You are an analytical and detail‑focused professional with a solid understanding of business operations, project management and end‑to‑end process workflows. You bring experience supporting complex portfolios or programmes, ideally within a PMO environment, and are confident in managing change, assessing risks and making sound decisions at the appropriate level. You communicate clearly and build strong, trusted relationships across teams, offering challenge where needed to ensure clarity of scope, timelines and benefits. You are comfortable working with a range of stakeholders and thrive in environments where collaboration and continuous improvement are essential. You bring strong written communication skills and are confident using tools such as PowerPoint, MS Project, Jira and Confluence. You are customer‑focused, adaptable to changing priorities and committed to delivering high‑quality work that supports the successful delivery of technology‑enabled projects. A project management or business analysis qualification is required, with PMO or Prince2 certification considered an advantage.
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).
