Commercial Programme Manager
London, UK Marketing
Job description
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Commercial Programme Manager means being at the forefront of driving transformative change and innovation in a dynamic and collaborative environment. Our Commercial Programme team is dedicated to delivering exceptional propositions that enhance our customers' experience and ensure sustainable business growth. As a key player in this team, you will have the opportunity to showcase your strategic thinking, leadership skills, and ability to drive end-to-end solutions that make a real impact. With a strong emphasis on creativity, agility, and continuous learning, you will be empowered to lead complex programmes, build strong relationships, and drive change at pace, all while contributing to a culture of excellence and innovation that sets us apart.
What you'll do
You will play a pivotal role in driving end-to-end thinking and strategic programme management to deliver transformative Winning in Propositions initiatives that enhance the customer experience and ensure sustainable business growth. You will demonstrate excellent thought leadership by challenging the status quo, fostering innovation, and leveraging insights to drive practical recommendations that inspire change across the organisation. With a proactive and forward-thinking approach, you will lead complex programmes with agility, setting up effective ways of working and building high-performing teams to accelerate change at pace. Your collaborative and end-to-end mindset will underpin your role as a positive role model, facilitating an environment for rapid delivery, learning, and continuous improvement within the business.
Who you are
As a Commercial Programme Manager at Sainsbury's, you are a strategic and innovative leader with a growth mindset and a proven track record in shaping and implementing major change projects / programmes. With a strength in end-to-end strategic thinking and a keen ability to use data, insight, and external innovation to drive complex decisions, you excel in driving change at pace and delivering high-impact results. Your commercial acumen, curiosity, and drive allow you to identify and pursue opportunities while fostering collaborative relationships and driving innovation across the organisation. Your strong communication skills, analytical perspective, and ability to influence at all levels enable you to connect the dots, innovate, and implement with purpose, ensuring successful programme delivery and driving sustainable growth for the business.
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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 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, 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).