Digital Trading Lead (12 month FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Retail
Closing date: 28 October 2025
Requisition ID: 400030536
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. As the link between sellers and buyers, retail and head office, our retail operations team is the cog that keeps things running. With teams focused on store facing, labour, transformation, online, delivery and contact centre work, we touch almost every part of the business. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment where you need to pivot not just daily, but often hourly. So while we plan all we can, it’s vital that we all think outside our job descriptions and look to optimise and improve how we do everything. There’s also a real team ethos. After all, it’s people like you who are going to truly transform this part of the business.
This role is for a 12 month fixed term contract.
Reporting to the Digital Trading Manager, the Digital Trading Lead – Food is accountable for owning and driving the performance and growth of their specific categories across digital channels, ensuring that their category strategies are brilliantly executed within our customer missions.
The dynamic and fast-moving nature of this role will require confidence, resilience, and sound commercial judgement in order to prioritise and deal effectively with fast changing scenarios and opportunities.
What you need to do:
- Review daily performance and take clear actions to capitalise on opportunities or mitigate risks, driving improvements in line with business targets.
- Conduct regular site-walks to review the customer journey and check information accuracy, addressing any issues.
- Take responsibility for the performance of your category, highlighting key actions, opportunities, risks, and providing a performance narrative.
- Develop and deliver the category plan up to six months out, including implementation, trading, and flagging risks or challenges to the Digital Trading Manager.
- Optimise your category regularly using tools and insights to improve digital metrics and outcomes (e.g., Adobe, Glassbox, SIP).
- Own delivery of category BAU initiatives such as range reviews, newness, and cycle changes.
- Build relationships with commercial (buying) and other key stakeholders, attending sessions to support digital execution and champion the digital channel.
- Support the Digital Trading Manager with supplier relationships, including data and insight, and attend meetings as appropriate, partnering with Nectar360 on retail media opportunities.
What you need to know and show:
- Passion for e-Commerce and Retail.
- Experience building and delivering plans aligned to a strategy.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving, pressured environment and manage projects on time and to budget.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills, able to make recommendations based on data and insight, ensuring clear storytelling.
- Experience working with an online retailer and using online analytics.
- Previous trading experience.
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills, able to satisfy varying needs in the face of conflicting demands.
- Excellent planning and prioritising skills to deliver plans to deadline.
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).
