Technical Manager - GM
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 03 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400049657
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Technical Manager means becoming a key player in ensuring the safety, quality, and integrity of our products, while also driving innovation and excellence in our technical processes. With a focus on collaboration and continuous improvement, you will have the opportunity to work with a cross-functional team to shape the future of our General Merchandise products and contribute to the overall success of Sainsbury's Commercial. As part of our dynamic and supportive environment, you will be empowered to make a meaningful impact, enhance your skills through ongoing training and development, and play a vital role in upholding our commitment to delivering high-quality products that meet the needs of our customers.
What you'll do
As a Technical Manager, you will be accountable for managing the delivery of all aspects of the Sainsbury's Brand product and technical plans for your designated product area, ensuring safe, legal, and high-quality products that meet agreed specifications and standards. In collaboration with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and internal stakeholders, you will drive the quality and technical agenda, delivering through suppliers the Plan for Better commitments and placing the customer at the forefront of all decisions. You will work closely with the General Merchandise category team to integrate and align Sainsbury's GM products within Sainsbury's Commercial, implementing technical audit and ethical audit processes, defining appropriate product ranges, and establishing technical accountability to support the development of the GM strategy. Your role will also involve reviewing data, systems, policies, and compliance against Sainsbury's ways of working, ensuring quality standards are met, and maintaining brand reputation through effective due diligence and quality management practises.
Who you are
As a Technical Manager at Sainsbury's, you are a seasoned professional with a strong background in technical management within the retail or supply base environment, equipped with in-depth knowledge of quality systems, legislation, ethical audits, and manufacturing processes essential for ensuring the safety, legality, and quality of Sainsbury's brand products. With a proactive approach to supplier management, a track record of delivering results, and a keen eye for detail, you play a critical role in driving quality standards, maintaining brand reputation, and overseeing the technical aspects of product development and delivery. Your commercial awareness, effective communication skills, and ability to prioritise tasks demonstrate your commitment to ensuring product excellence and adherence to regulatory standards within a dynamic and evolving retail landscape.
Essential Criteria:
- Demonstrated ability to manage product safety, quality and legality for own‑brand or branded products, ensuring compliance with UK legislation, internal standards and due‑diligence requirements
- Proven experience working with suppliers and third‑party providers, including oversight of technical, ethical and product assurance audit processes
- Ability to implement and operate standardised technical governance, including gated NPD processes and quality management frameworks within a cross‑functional environment
- Experience collaborating with commercial, sourcing, supply chain and technical teams to define product ranges and manage supply base capability
- Ability to review and use technical data, systems and reporting to support compliance, governance and continuous improvement
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).
