Buyer - Grocery Food
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 01 February 2026
Requisition ID: 400045805
Our Grocery Food team plays a key role in shaping the products our customers enjoy every day. You’ll join a collaborative, commercially driven team working closely with major brands and cross-functional partners to deliver a distinctive, value-led offer for our customers.
More About the Role
As a Buyer for Grocery Food, you’ll own and deliver the commercial strategy for your category. You’ll analyse performance, build compelling customer-led ranges and identify opportunities for growth across branded and Own Brand ranges. You’ll implement pricing and promotional activity, and lead cross-functional projects that drive market share and profitability.
Your category will include major suppliers, giving you the chance to work with some of the biggest names in the industry. You’ll manage a sizeable category so prior buying experience is crucial in this role.
More About You
You’re a commercially minded buyer with strong negotiation skills and the ability to build productive relationships with major FMCG suppliers. You excel in fast-paced environments, make data-led decisions and can balance short-term trading delivery with long-term category strategy. You’re confident managing complex categories, optimising secondary space and delivering clear commercial results.
You collaborate well with cross-functional teams, communicate clearly and can adapt your style to influence stakeholders at all levels. You take ownership, stay curious and thrive on improving category performance.
Essential Criteria
• Ability to analyse financial, customer and market data to make commercial decisions.
• Experience managing supplier relationships and negotiating cost prices or terms.
• Capability to build commercially effective product ranges in a competitive market.
• Proficiency in implementing pricing and promotional plans.
• Ability to prioritise workload effectively across multiple projects.
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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: 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.
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 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 additional holiday. 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, 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
