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Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 30 September 2025
Requisition ID: 400018615

We believe in providing meaningful work and achieving a real work/life balance. Here, you'll find both. Our Supply Chain team is the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories to our millions of customers every day. We leverage insight and data to anticipate customer needs, ensuring they get what they want, when they need it. You'll be part of a team that is data-driven and judgement-focused, always the first to identify and address any issues or ambiguities. A culture of collaboration, customer obsession, and continuous improvement drives us to deliver market-leading product availability and operational excellence, and fuels our innovation. Our Supply Chain team calls for people who champion change, are customer-obsessed, data-driven, and excel at collaborating and communicating effectively - because those people can go a very long way.

Why join us

Joining our team at Sainsbury's as a Programme Manager in the Logistics & Fulfilment division means being at the forefront of major network change projects and automation initiatives that shape our future of our operations. With a focus on delivering projects on time, within budget, and to the highest standards, this role offers the opportunity to lead large scale and complex robotics and automation projects in a fast-paced environment.

What you'll do

Here, you will be responsible for overseeing the end to end delivery and integration of major network change projects, including tactical capacity initiatives and automation projects. You will work across internal solution design and construction teams, 3PL partners, and contractors to influence multiple stakeholders and ensure that change programmes are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required standards.

Your role will involve collaborating with stakeholders to create a manageable programme of delivery, managing project plans and budgets, ensuring key projects are delivered on time, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in delivery practises. You will be accountable for maintaining a view of interdependencies across the wider Logistics programme of change, providing guidance and support where necessary, and ensuring compliance with organisational policies, standards, and best practises.

Who you are

We're seeking a seasoned professional with a deep understanding of complex automation and logistics projects within the retail industry. With extensive experience in leading major network change initiatives and overseeing project delivery, you excel in managing multiple stakeholders and ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required standards. Your strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills enable you to foster a culture of continuous improvement, drive innovation, and build strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.

Essential

  • Deep understanding of Logistics projects and how they relate to a Retail led business. 
  • Extensive experience with complex robotics or automation project delivery in a fast-paced environment. 
  • Deep understanding of project management methodologies and best practices. 
  • Strong financial and commercial acumen. 
  • Understanding of the broad risks and issues associated with complex automation delivery. 

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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 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, 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). 

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