Buyer - Baby, Beauty and Healthcare
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 29 August 2025
Requisition ID: 400012527
Join our dynamic Food Commercial division, where innovation meets customer focus. Our team is dedicated to delivering a distinctive and competitive customer offer. We are passionate about helping everyone eat better and are committed to sustainable growth through strategic buying and selling practices.
More about the role
Our Buyer - Baby (Non Food) role is a brilliant area where you can make all the difference for our smallest and most important shoppers! Working as part of a dedicated and passionate team, you'll be in charge of owning the buying and selling strategy across Nappies, Wipes, Baby and Kids Toiletries, and Baby Accessories. This includes buying effectively from some of the biggest multinational FMCGs, managing the P&L, and also curating brilliant events and activations.
More about you
To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of financial, market, and customer data. You should be adept at managing supplier relationships and influencing stakeholders to gain commitment to your plans. Your ability to flex your style to inspire and engage will be key.
We are looking for someone who shows accountability for results, has excellent negotiation skills, and possesses a strong commercial background. Effective communication, teamwork, and analytical thinking are essential behaviours that will help you thrive in this role.
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of buying systems and processes.
- Proven buying experience in a retail or FMCG environment
- Demonstratable experience in supplier contract management
- Ability to analyse problems and make effective decisions
- Clear written and verbal communication of complex information
- Experience in delivering cross-functional projects
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).
