Merchandiser - Branded Clothing
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 10 October 2025
Requisition ID: 400013238
Why Join Us
Join our General Merchandise team at Sainsbury’s and become a key player in our Brand Clothing division, where style meets strategy. As a Merchandiser, you’ll help shape our customer offer across multi-channel platforms, driving profitable growth and delivering an exceptional shopping experience.
You’ll have the autonomy to make decisions, adapt quickly in a fast-paced retail environment, and continuously develop your skills. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do, and you’ll work closely with cross-functional teams and suppliers to bring our clothing ranges to life. We also champion flexibility, giving you the freedom to work in ways that support both your professional and personal wellbeing.
What You’ll Do
As a Merchandiser in Brand Clothing, you’ll lead the execution of a customer-facing, multi-channel merchandising strategy for your category/ranges, aligned with our broader commercial goals. You’ll use market analysis, customer insights, and supplier knowledge to build category frameworks and budgets that drive performance.
You’ll be responsible for reviewing trading performance, identifying risks and opportunities, and contributing to trade and post-implementation reviews. Managing stock levels and supplier relationships will be key, as will collaborating with teams across the business on space optimisation and joint business planning. You’ll also prioritise inbound and outbound stock flow to meet critical path milestones and deliver a seamless customer experience.
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to know how to interpret data to make informed decisions, understand how to engage and influence stakeholders, and be confident in planning and prioritising across multiple projects. You’ll show strong organisational skills, a customer-first mindset, and a proactive approach to problem-solving, while role-modelling positive ways of working across the team.
Essential Criteria
- Based at our Coventry Store Support Centre 2 days per week
- Previous merchandising experience, ideally in a non-food, multi-channel retail environment
- Confident working with data to inform decisions, spot trends, and drive commercial performance
- Proven ability to deliver results both individually and within a team
- Comfortable working under pressure in a fast-moving retail 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: 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).
