Buying Assistant - General Merchandise Home
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Secondment
Business area: Sainsbury's Commercial & Sustainability
Closing date: 14 June 2026
Requisition ID: 400062879
As a Buying Assistant, you will provide essential administrative and operational support to the Buying team, ensuring that all processes are delivered accurately and in line with critical timelines. You will play a key role in implementing promotional and pricing plans, coordinating product set-up, supporting marketing campaigns, and maintaining accurate product and supplier information. Please note this role can be based at either our London or Ansty Park Store Support Centre, but will require travel to the other.
Day to day, you will work across a variety of activities including raising and tracking promotions, liaising with suppliers for product launches, maintaining SKU and system accuracy, and responding to queries from internal stakeholders and store colleagues. You will also support data analysis, reviewing customer feedback and competitor pricing to help inform trading decisions, while ensuring compliance with internal processes and legal requirements.
More about you
You will bring a high level of organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment. You will be comfortable working with data, able to interpret information and use it to support decision-making, while maintaining a strong focus on accuracy and process.
You will demonstrate effective communication and stakeholder management skills, enabling you to build positive relationships across the business and with external partners. A proactive and solutions-focused approach is key, alongside the ability to prioritise workload, adapt to changing priorities, and continuously look for ways to improve processes and outcomes.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience carrying out administrative tasks accurately within defined timelines
- Previous experience of internal Argos or JS systems essential - e.g RMS, DRS, Online Range Plans
- Proven ability to use Microsoft Excel and other MS Office tools to input, maintain and analyse data
- Experience handling and maintaining data accuracy across systems or databases
- Demonstrable experience managing multiple tasks and prioritising workload to meet deadlines
- Evidence of working with internal or external stakeholders to resolve queries or deliver tasks
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).
