Convenience Commercial Lead
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Commercial & Sustainability
Closing date: 28 August 2026
Requisition ID: 400075791
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Convenience Commercial Lead offers an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of the rapid growth and transformation of our Convenience channel. As part of a dynamic team driving strategic initiatives and delivering impactful changes in our Local stores, you will have the chance to shape strategies, influence senior stakeholders, and make a real difference in enhancing customer experience and driving growth. With a focus on collaboration, innovation, and customer-centricity, this role provides a platform for ambitious individuals to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving retail environment while contributing to the future success of our business.
What you'll do
As the Convenience Commercial Lead at Sainsbury's, you will be at the forefront of driving growth, improving customer experience, and future-proofing the Local store estate. Your role will involve leading the development of format, space, and proposition strategies based on customer insights, performance data and market dynamics. This role will involve influencing senior stakeholders to gain buy-in for growth initiatives, and owning end-to-end delivery of strategic projects across space, range, value, and proposition. You will collaborate cross-functionally with various teams to translate strategic plans into actionable roadmaps, monitor performance against KPIs, and continuously optimise initiatives for maximum impact. Your ability to navigate ambiguity, engage stakeholders at all levels, and deliver results through effective collaboration, data led approach with strategic thinking will be key to your success in shaping and landing impactful initiatives that drive the business forward.
Who you are
You are a commercially astute and strategic-minded leader with a proven track record of driving growth and delivering impactful initiatives within a dynamic retail environment. Your ability to synthesise information, collaborate across functions, and influence stakeholders at all levels enables you to develop and implement strategies that enhance customer experience, optimise store operations, and achieve business objectives. With a customer-centric & curious mindset, analytical acumen combined with a passion for continuous improvement, you thrive in navigating ambiguity, solving complex challenges, and leading cross-functional teams to success.
Essential Criteria:
- Highly analytical with strong problem‑solving skills, using data and insight to identify trends, evaluate performance, and support decision‑making.
- Proven project management experience, with the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and deliver outcomes against agreed timelines.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and maintain accuracy in a fast‑paced environment.
- Experience engaging and working effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, building relationships and driving alignment across teams.
- Demonstrable experience using merchandising, ranging, or space planning principles, with knowledge of Range & Space processes desirable.
- Ability to quickly build knowledge and deliver impact, adapting to changing business priorities and supporting projects through execution phases.
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).
