Secondary Space Process Planner (12m FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 31 August 2025
Requisition ID: 400014226
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Secondary Space Process Planner means becoming part of a dynamic and collaborative team within the Fresh Operations division, where you will play a crucial role in managing and maintaining GM and food secondary space to ensure accurate and effective communication with key stakeholders. With a focus on driving promotional compliance, improving processes, and enhancing the retail experience for our customers, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects and contribute to the strategic priorities of the business. In a supportive and inclusive environment, you will have the chance to leverage your expertise in merchandising and data integrity, while also gaining exposure to cutting-edge tools and systems. Join us to make an impact, grow your skills, and be part of a team dedicated to delivering exceptional results in a fast-paced retail environment.
What you'll do
As a Secondary Space Process Planner, you will play a crucial role in collating, producing, and maintaining the GM and food secondary space for Supermarket, Small Supers, and Convenience to agreed timelines, ensuring accuracy and compliance. You will be the 'super user' for the Promotional Communication Tool, providing support to Trading Teams and Display Planning, while also managing E2E promotional cycles and smaller initiatives or projects for future development. As a focal point of contact for the team, you will liaise with stakeholders across the business, maintain the team's profile and purpose, and provide excellent customer service to store colleagues through quick query resolution and effective store communications. Your expertise in secondary space usage, merchandising principles, and merchandising best practises will be key in driving efficiency and compliance within the team, ultimately contributing to the success of promotional campaigns and store-specific PSA improvements.
Who you are
You are a detail-oriented professional with a deep understanding of merchandising principles and a strategic mindset focused on maximising the effectiveness of secondary space usage. With a strong background in data integrity and compliance, you excel in managing promotional cycles, collating promotional downloads, and ensuring accurate and timely production of GM and food secondary space. Your expertise in merchandising best practises, combined with your ability to build strong category relationships and empower display coordinators, enables you to drive efficiency, improve compliance, and support the successful delivery of merchandising projects within a dynamic retail environment.
Essential Criteria:
- Excel expertise including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP.
- PowerPoint proficiency for creating professional presentations.
- Numerical skills with strong analytical ability.
- Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration with teams such as Buyers and Category Planners.
- Organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
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).
