Supply Chain Assistant
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Logistics
Closing date: 13 February 2026
Requisition ID: 400047663
What I am accountable for
- Placing Purchase Orders (PO’s) to order stock, raising contracts for new orders.
- Tracking orders to maintain flow of appropriate volumes, flagging failures, issues and delays to wider stakeholders.
- Communicate with Suppliers, Network Planning and Logistics to facilitate a smooth flow of stock from the Supplier to Depot.
- Maintain accurate records of commitment to provide stock intake and output forecasts, prepare analysis reports, and update delivery schedules and relevant systems to reflect the latest supplier delivery positions.
- Collaborate with replenishment teams to plan initial allocations and launch builds to meet stock and availability targets.
- Ensure on-time delivery through supporting the achievement of milestones within the critical path, ensuring any issues are resolved or escalated where appropriate.
- Execute the planning for seasonal events and promotions for stock.
- Resolve store queries, alongside Supply Chain colleagues.
- Deliver accountabilities in alignment with availability and stock targets.
What I need to know
Essential
- Show an understanding of Supply Chain and how various factors could impact routes to market and the customer proposition.
- Demonstrate a desire to work in Supply Chain and a passion for food/non-food retail.
- Strong communication skills that enable Business Partnership, Stakeholder Management and Cross Functional Working
- Ability to prioritise workload, keeping up with the demand of the changing retail landscape to ensure best customer outcomes.
- Understanding of Supply Chain processes.
- MS Office Proficiency: Experience using MS Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook)
- A diligent and thorough work ethic, with attention to detail.
Desirable
- Experience working in either Supply Chain or Merchandising.
- Experience with AI systems, with an understanding of machine learning capabilities and benefits.
What I need to show
- Own it
- Always do what you say you’ll do and suggest solutions for problems as you spot them.
- Ask questions and contribute honestly to discussions or conversations.
- Prioritise your work in line with team or project goals.
- Make it better
- Willing to try new approaches to improve and simplify.
- Embrace variety and open to opportunities to transfer your skills to new challenges.
- Seek information to better understand your role and how teams around you operate.
- Act on feedback you receive and give accurate and timely feedback to others.
- Be human
- Show care and respect to everyone.
- Seek opportunities to connect with others and build trusted relationships.
- Walk in the shoes of your internal and external customers, considering their needs in all you do.
Support we will provide
- Training on all systems and processes will be provided.
- Access to personal development tools e.g. Bitesize talks, online self-development tools, internal mentoring.
- Embedded within a cross functional category team.
- Regular team meetings within Supply Chain.
- Monthly 121s with your line manager.
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 5% 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).
