A&R Controller
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 24 April 2026
Requisition ID: 400056642
What you need to do
• Own stock performance at SKU/store level, Create and maintain accurate, SKU/store demand forecasts aligned to the category plan.
• Provide root cause analysis and investigation of trended data in relation to various KPIs such as sales, availability, waste, and stockholding in order to achieve the optimum customer experience across our retail channels, to inform and influence the strategic direction of the commercial category.
• Own the performance of your category profile, be curious and seek opportunities, to constantly find ways to improve performance, simplify and save.
• Ensure stock levels reflect seasonality and moments that matter to our customers
• Proactively execute data led and customer outcome focused system parameter changes within Allocation & Replenishment systems
• Ensure thorough governance over category profile, with regular and effective cross functional business partnership. Set objectives and contribute towards strategic category development plans, whilst ensuring Supply Chain objectives are understood and met.
What you need to show
• Business and commercial acumen and strong analytical capability to generate, manipulate & interrogate data to perform accurate root cause analysis and generate insights & trends
• Business Partnership, Stakeholder Management and Cross Functional Working
• Effective communicator - understands the importance of and can build a strong network around the business.
• Robust systemic competency, competent excel skills are desirable.
• Demonstrate drive, curiosity, and desire to grow together with the demonstration of ongoing and continuous professional development
• Effective project management (desirable not essential)
• Good judgement in the face of multiple, and sometimes conflicting, demands.
• Ability to influence at all levels (up to and including Heads of departments)
• Commercial/buying related experience in Retail/FMCG (desirable not essential).
• Strong customer focus
What decisions I can make:.
• Choose how our range is set up and flows into and out of our network, influencing the route to market from the depot network to our stores & how to optimise availability across all channels.
• Decide when and how to manage changes in consumer demand to maximise availability.
• Use data insights & working in collaboration with stakeholders to take proactive action to achieve Supply Chain objectives.
Directly or indirectly manages
• No direct reports
Support we will provide
• System and process training
• Mentoring and line management support
• Access to personal development tools e.g. Bitesize talks, online self-development tools
• Flexible working policy
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 5% 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).
