Commercial Store Proposition Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 16 February 2026
Requisition ID: 400046345
You will play a pivotal role in delivering the company's' Next Level Sainsbury’s’ corporate strategy, helping to define the key commercial rule sets across the store blueprint. Your main responsibilities will be to lead complex cross-functional projects to define and implement key supermarket space initiatives. Additionally, you will collaborate with data owners and various divisions to unlock maximum value from our data. Your strategic thinking, customer focus, and excellent project management skills will be key to your success in this role as you navigate ambiguity, build strong relationships, and drive tangible recommendations for the business.
What you need to do
- Lead complex cross-functional projects designed to help solve our toughest commercial problems and make tangible recommendations to the business
- Develop commercial prioritisation frameworks to implement and land strategic space change across our supermarket estate
- Act as the centre of challenge by working with our Commercial and Trading Finance teams to ensure programs deliver commercial aspirations (e.g. TI, ROI) whilst balancing the right customer missions for our customers
- Develops great relationships with data owners across the business, collaborating cross-functionally with wider divisions to unlock maximum value from our data (eg. Commercial Analytics, Matching, Customers Insights, Finance, Supply Chain)
Essential criteria
- Based in our London SSC 2-3 days a week with UK wide travel to stores as and when required
- Proven delivery of cross‑functional commercial projects with quantified outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to use data to drive decisions and build relevant KPIs
- Ability to evaluate and balance customer missions, commercial return and operational feasibility
- Proven ability to simplify complex analysis into clear, testable recommendations
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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).
