Head of Food Proposition Planning

Sainsbury's; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

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.

Qualifications

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:

1. 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.
2. Pensions scheme and life cover.
3. Performance-related bonus of up to 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares).
4. Annual holiday allowance, with the option to buy additional holiday.
5. Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day).
6. 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.
7. Employee assistance programme and eligibility for private healthcare.
8. 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).

Responsibilities

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.