Projects & Mobilisation Manager - FTC until April 2027
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, Coventry, CV1 1FL
Contract type:
Business area: Finance & Transformation
Closing date: 07 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400067126
This is a secondment/Fixed Term Contract opportunity until end April 2027.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Projects & Mobilisation Manager offers the opportunity to lead strategic projects in Facilities Management (FM). With a focus on data-led decision-making and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future strategy of FM services. This role provides a dynamic environment where you can leverage your strategic thinking, project management skills, and industry insights to deliver impactful changes that enhance performance and drive business success.
What you'll do
You’ll be responsible for the management and successful implementation of strategic projects in FM, driving service improvements across the supply chain, and mobilisation of service or service improvement models. You will collaborate with stakeholders to shape the strategic view of the FM supply chain and service level standards, using a data-led approach and industry insights to enhance performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and drive efficiencies within the existing supply base while shaping the future strategy. Additionally, you will develop project implementation planning, contribute to business cases and benefits cases, track benefits delivery, identify service improvement opportunities, manage contract mobilisation and demobilisation effectively, and deliver project plans and mobilisations to key milestones, ensuring timelines are met and costs are controlled through the change period.
Who you are
You’re a strategic thinker with a proven track record in FM and project management, capable of driving change and delivering operational excellence through effective supplier management and service improvement initiatives. Your ability to develop compelling business cases supported by data-driven insights, coupled with your strong communication skills and stakeholder management expertise, enable you to lead cross-functional teams and engage with senior stakeholders to deliver successful project outcomes. With a focus on performance management, you excel in identifying efficiencies, driving innovation, and ensuring compliance within the FM supply chain.
Essential criteria
Demonstrable recent experience monitoring and improving supplier performance, including tracking against agreed service levels, identifying performance issues, and implementing corrective actions to ensure delivery against cost, quality and timeline requirements.
Proven ability to transform supplier management approaches, including redesigning processes & implementing performance frameworks.
- Demonstrable experience managing and delivering strategic projects, including planning, implementation, governance, tracking and achieving agreed milestones.
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and manage supplier relationships, driving innovations, improvements and enhancing performance.
- Evidence of using data to inform decision-making, including developing business cases and identifying service improvement opportunities.
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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 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).
