Product Coordinator
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Bedford Depot, Kempston, MK43 9AA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Marketing
Requisition ID: 400057406
12-month FTC
Bedford location
Marketing - Product Coordinator
Why join us
Joining Zest, our In-House Creative and Content agency at Sainsbury's, means becoming part of a unique, creative, and fun environment where we bring our products and brands to life through captivating content. With a team of passionate creative and technical experts across multiple locations, we support all brands within the Sainsbury's group and create exceptional shopping experiences for our customers. As a PDC Coordinator, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth coordination and handling of products, working closely with various teams to maintain efficient operations. With our focus on work-life balance, flexible working options, and a wide range of benefits, joining us means being part of a dynamic team that values creativity, collaboration, and delivering excellence to our customers.
What you'll be doing
As a PDC Coordinator within our In-House Creative and Content agency, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our Product Development centre (PDC). Your responsibilities will include receiving, booking in, and labelling products, as well as delivering them to designated areas within agreed timelines. With a keen eye for detail, you will maintain accurate records and coordinate sample disposal and archive requests. Building strong relationships with the Post Room and Commercial buying teams, you will facilitate seamless product handling and provide regular updates on product status. Your organisational skills will extend to maintaining the tidiness and organisation of the PDC spaces, adhering to health and safety policies at all times. With a collaborative mindset and a focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences, you will contribute to the overall success of our creative endeavours.
Who you are
As the PDC Coordinator for Zest, our in-house creative and content agency, you are a detail-oriented and organised professional who thrives in a fast-paced stockroom environment. With experience in stock management or stock audit, you have a strong understanding of warehouse stock management systems and can efficiently handle the receipt, labelling, and storage of products. Your excellent communication skills allow you to establish collaborative relationships with the commercial buying team and the post room colleagues to ensure timely delivery and retrieval of samples and products. With a focus on maintaining tidiness and adhering to health and safety policies, you take pride in ensuring the PDC spaces are well-organised. Your commitment to accuracy and attention to detail contribute to the exceptional shopping experience we provide to our customers.
Essential criteria
Proven experience in stock management, stock control, or stock audit within a stockroom, warehouse, or operational environment.
Hands‑on experience receiving, booking in, labelling, storing and distributing products or samples.
Experience using warehouse or stock management systems to maintain accurate product records.
Demonstrable experience adhering to health and safety policies and procedures in an operational setting.
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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: Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
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 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 additional 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, 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.
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).
