Job Description
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. From fragrance to car care, clothing and pots and pans, our General Merchandise team delivers all the non-food items for Sainsbury’s, Habitat and Argos customers. This multi-brand environment means you get to work across most areas. You can also be a pioneer, because the team believes in being brave, iterating and learning as they go. They also develop deep connections to other departments, which opens up a lot of different career opportunities for you. What’s certain is that you’ll spend time on the shop floor to get closer to customers, and bring a broad perspective and the full support of your manager with you wherever you decide to develop next.
Why join us
We’re a household name — and a trusted one. So we need to make sure that the value and quality we provide in our stores and online starts with our suppliers. It means building relationships that help you reach targets. Which will be second nature to a negotiator like you. Joining Sainsbury's Drop Shipping team means ample opportunities for collaboration and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders, you will have the chance to drive improvements, resolve customer complaints, and contribute to our ongoing success. Alongside a strong focus on customer experience and commercial acumen, we offer a supportive environment where you can enhance your skills, shape supplier relationships, and make a tangible impact on our operations. Join us and be part of a dynamic team committed to delivering exceptional service to our customers and driving continuous improvement in the retail industry.
What you’ll do
You’ll manage day-to-day relationships with suppliers to make sure SLAs are being met. That will see you analyse and interpret data to assess performance, challenging suppliers where KPIs aren’t being reached and putting measures in place to solve it. And by ensuring that suppliers are updating their inventories, you’ll see that stock availability is maximised. Your role will involve establishing and maintaining effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, up to Director level, to ensure the delivery of agreed KPIs in line with the company strategy
It’s a role which will involve working closely with the trading teams and providing insights into supplier performance to support buying decisions or identify opportunities. You’ll also create reports, share performance, chair meetings and put your point across to both external suppliers and internal stakeholders.
Your role will require strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence at a senior level.
Additionally, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the new supplier set-up process — you’ll effectively be launching new suppliers which will impact the business as a whole.
Who you are
As a 3rd Party Brand Co-ordinator at Sainsbury's, you are a highly organised and proactive individual with excellent communication and influencing skills. Your strong analytical and problem-solving abilities enable you to review supplier performance, investigate and resolve high-level complaints, and provide valuable insights to support buying decisions and identify opportunities aligned with the business strategy.
Experience in account handling, buying or merchandising would be a plus, but it’s essential that you’re a natural negotiator. In fact, you’ll be a clear and confident communicator all round, and be just as talented at analysis.
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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 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 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 additional 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, 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.
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).
Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.