Head of Food Proposition Planning
London, UK Sales
Job description
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as the Head of Food Proposition Planning means becoming a crucial player in shaping and evolving our customer value strategy, making a significant impact on the business's positioning as customers' First Choice for Food. You'll have the opportunity to work collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, leveraging your expertise in commercial strategy design and execution to drive meaningful change and strategic growth. With a dedicated team, ample resources, and a dynamic environment, this role offers the chance to lead and inspire high-performing teams while continuously innovating and adapting in a fast-paced retail market.
What you'll do
As the Head of Food Proposition Planning at Sainsbury's, you will be the driving force behind designing and developing a winning value proposition for our customers across all channels, shaping the vision for value and pricing with commercial leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. Your role will involve consistently identifying opportunities through market analysis and business performance, building a strategic vision supported by a programme of work across the Food Proposition team, and managing differentiated pricing strategies across channels. Additionally, you will lead the effective adoption of value frameworks and rulesets within the business, ensuring cohesive alignment and balanced rationale for change, while also overseeing value performance review and market insight to drive meaningful, positive change across the organisation and support the evolution and communication of Sainsbury's First Choice for Food strategy.
Who you are
As the Head of Food Proposition Planning at Sainsbury's, you are a strategic and customer-focused leader with a deep understanding of commercial dynamics and a passion for delivering exceptional value propositions. With a proven track record in strategy design, market analysis, and team leadership, you possess the ability to drive meaningful change and innovation across the business. Your strong analytical skills, collaborative approach, and effective storytelling abilities enable you to inspire and empower your team to develop and implement impactful value frameworks that resonate with customers and drive business success.
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 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares).
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. You'll also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000 business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
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).