Personal Assistant - Food Commercial
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 31 August 2025
Requisition ID: 400014238
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves, anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Personal Assistant within the Commercial division offers you the opportunity to provide essential support to our Category Directors, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth operation of our dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will have the chance to work closely with senior leaders, manage multiple tasks, and contribute to the success of our business by assisting in various administrative and organisational tasks. At Sainsbury's, we value teamwork, professionalism, and continuous development, providing a supportive and inclusive culture where your contributions are recognised and valued.
What you'll do
In the role of Personal Assistant, you will provide professional and confidential support to Category Directors, undertaking a range of administrative, organisational, and analytical tasks. Your responsibilities will include managing multiple diaries, scheduling appointments, coordinating meetings, handling communications, maintaining systems, processing expenses, and ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of information. Additionally, you will act as the first point of contact within the team, liaising with internal and external stakeholders, and facilitating clear and timely communications while organising events, visits, and conferences as needed. Your role will also involve collaborating cross-functionally with other domains to ensure efficient and effective information management and support the leaders in their day-to-day activities with discretion and confidentiality.
Who you are
You are a dedicated and highly organised professional who thrives in providing comprehensive administrative support to Category Directors. With excellent communication skills and the ability to manage multiple diaries and priorities effectively, you ensure seamless coordination of meetings, events, and travel arrangements. Your proactive approach, attention to detail, and commitment to confidentiality enable you to uphold business values, build strong relationships, and contribute to the smooth functioning of the team in a fast-paced environment.
Essential Criteria:
- Previous Personal Assistant experience in a PA or team support capacity.
- Diary management - Ability to organise multiple diaries and meetings.
- Stakeholder management with confidence in supplier-facing communication.
- Time management with the ability to prioritise effectively.
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 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 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).
