Senior Buyer - In Store Bakery

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 02 March 2025
Requisition ID: 290066

We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it's the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, digitally and on demand. You'll discover it's incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They're enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves, anywhere else in the business. So, if you're passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, you'll fit in perfectly.

Joining Sainsbury's Buying Teams as a Senior Buyer in our In Store Bakery presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a dedicated group committed to making good food joyful, accessible, and affordable for all. In this role, you will drive the buying and selling strategy, contributing to market share growth and cash profit while ensuring high quality and customer satisfaction in our In Store Bakery products. With a focus on collaboration, continuous learning, and a customer-centric approach, you will have the chance to shape the product range, influence stakeholders, and make impactful decisions that enhance the overall customer experience.

What you'll do:

In your role as a Senior Buyer for Sainsbury's In Store Bakery, you will drive the buying and selling strategy to ensure high-quality bakery products that meet customer satisfaction while contributing to market share growth and cash profit. You will lead the optimisation of the In-Store Bakery category strategy, collaborating cross-functionally to review product ranges, identify improvement opportunities, and develop new offerings as well as cost-saving initiatives. By leveraging your commercial acumen, analytical skills, and effective communication, you will make key decisions, influence stakeholders, and utilise data-driven insights to shape a leading product range. Managing supplier relationships, guiding projects to successful outcomes, and line managing a Buyer to meet team objectives will be integral to your responsibilities, contributing to the team's overall success and enhancing the customer experience.

Who you are:

As a Senior Buyer for Sainsbury's In Store Bakery, you are a seasoned professional with a proven track record in food buying and line management experience, possessing strong commercial acumen and strategic vision to drive sustainable market share growth and cash profit. Your ability to analyse data, identify improvement opportunities, and develop customer-focused plans aligned with company strategy sets you apart, as does your proficiency in managing supplier relationships and leading successful projects. With excellent communication skills, adaptability, and resilience, you navigate complexities with ease, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment while effectively managing and guiding team members to achieve shared objectives.

Benefits:

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 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 additional holiday. 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, 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, 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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).