Buying Assistant

Job description

Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's Buying team means being part of a fast-paced and dynamic environment where you will play a crucial role in supporting the Buying team to drive overall performance and deliver a compelling customer offer. As a Buying Admin Assistant, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with stakeholders, engage in promotional planning, negotiate with suppliers, and ensure data integrity to achieve critical milestones. With a focus on continuous improvement, financial management, and team support, you will have the chance to contribute to the wider category strategy and develop your skills in a supportive and growth-oriented setting, making a tangible impact on the business and customer experience.

What you'll do
As the Buying Admin Assistant at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in providing comprehensive administrative support to the Buying team in the Grocery & GM category. Your responsibilities will include implementing promotional plans, supporting analysis of customer reviews and competitor pricing, responding to stakeholder queries, and ensuring efficient promotional and pricing administration. You will collaborate with internal and external colleagues to deliver promotional and range plans, maintain data integrity, monitor market trends, and contribute to achieving financial KPIs related to pricing and promotional plans. Your strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently will be key to your success in this role.
Who you are

As a Buying Admin Assistant at Sainsbury's, you are a detail-oriented professional with a strong sense of commercial acumen and a passion for providing comprehensive administrative support to the Buying team. With your ability to analyse data, understand market trends, and effectively negotiate with suppliers, you play a crucial role in implementing promotional plans, managing pricing administration, and ensuring data integrity for the category. Your proactive and customer-centric approach, coupled with your strong organisational skills and commitment to continuous improvement, enable you to contribute towards achieving financial KPIs, supporting team objectives, and delivering exceptional service to stakeholders while thriving in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

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).