Lead Trading Administrator
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Secondment
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 11 December 2025
Requisition ID: 400041919
Food Commercial - Lead Trading Administrator
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Lead Trading Administrator means becoming an integral part of our dedicated and dynamic team. With superb organisational skills and experience in project and / or people management, this role offers a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact on our trading activities. As the leader of a talented group of Trading Administrators, you will provide essential guidance and support, ensuring the smooth running of our processes and optimising workload management. Collaborating with other teams and stakeholders, you will have the chance to drive improvements and contribute to the overall success of our business. With exposure to various categories and responsibilities, this role offers a diverse and rewarding experience for someone who thrives on challenges and excels in a fast-paced environment. Join us today and become part of a team that values your skills, offers continuous development, and provides a supportive work environment.
What you'll do
As the Lead Trading Administrator at Sainsbury's, your role will be instrumental in ensuring the smooth running of our trading activities and providing crucial support to our category teams. You will have the responsibility of managing and leading a team of talented Trading Administrators, overseeing workload management, and ensuring a balanced distribution of work. Collaborating with the Lead Trading Administrator of another Food Business Unit, you will effectively manage workload across units, working closely with Process Owners and Coordinators in the Commercial Operations team. Your coordination efforts will provide visibility of future demand for business process outsourcing activities and identify areas for improvement within the operation. When urgent changes to our systems are required, you will take the initiative to make those changes to maintain the seamless operation of our stores and enhance customer experience. You will also provide vital assistance to our buyers by performing various trading administration tasks, such as clearance plans, data input, support for promotional plans and range changes, and handling POS requests. Overseeing and managing category-specific trading systems and processes, outside the scope of outsourcing, will also be part of your responsibilities. This will involve collaborating with external digital media agencies, organising product photography shoots, supporting digital trading teams, and managing system changes. Your strong analytical skills will help you identify improvement opportunities and make data-driven decisions. Effective communication and proficiency in MS Office will be essential in facilitating collaboration and reporting. If you are a detail-oriented individual with excellent organisational skills and experience in project and / or people management, this role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the success of our trading operations.
Who you are
As a Lead Trading Administrator at Sainsbury's, you are a highly organised and experienced professional with a strong background in project and / or people management. Your superb organisational skills and attention to detail enable you to efficiently support the smooth running of our trading activities and provide essential assistance to our category teams. With your expertise in workload management, you effectively balance and distribute tasks among your team of talented Trading Administrators, ensuring that each member has an appropriate workload. Your collaborative approach extends to coordinating with the Lead Trading Administrator of the other Food Business Unit, allowing for effective workload management across both units. Your ability to navigate complex processes and systems is evident as you work closely with Process Owners and Coordinators to identify areas for improvement and ensure optimal performance in our business process outsourcing operations. Your versatility shines through as you take initiative in making urgent system changes to ensure seamless store operations and an exceptional customer experience. Your analytical mindset, combined with your experience in various trading administration activities, empowers you to assist buyers in clearance plans, data input, promotion support, range changes, and POS requests. Your proficiency in managing category-specific trading systems and external agencies, as well as your ability to identify opportunities for improvement through data analysis, make you a valuable asset in driving success in our trading operations.
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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 additional 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, pay 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).
