Job Description

:In a nutshellAs a Food Proposition Planning manager your role will cover:

• The design and development of value strategies and frameworks to enable Sainsbury's to be customers' First Choice for Food through a winning value proposition for our customers
• Lead on business-wide integration of our strategies and frameworks through compelling story telling and brilliant stakeholder engagement
• Being an expert in value performance and market insight, through regular reporting and responsive investigations

What you need to doDesign and development of value strategies and frameworks

• Frame the right commercial and customer questions, often from a position of ambiguity
• Analyse pricing and promotions data from a range of sources and determine key insights
• Be creative in bringing the right insights and people together to help solve the questions and make tangible recommendations to the business
• Develop food commercial prioritisation frameworks to implement strategic change across value propositions and channels

Lead on business-wide integration of our strategies and frameworks:

• Craft simple, compelling and balanced rationale for change
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to strengthen our proposition and ensure that we land the right proposition, with impact
• Present proposed strategies and frameworks in a compelling way which generates change
• Review our propositions post-launch to ensure that they are delivering commercial and customer objectives

Be an expert in value performance and market insight

• Closely follow and investigate market movements, share findings and response recommendations with the right teams to ensure effective decision-making
• Adapt and develop regular reporting for the business on all things value
• Work closely with Finance, Marketing, Insight and Trading to connect the dots
• Provide the business Commercial Leadership Team with market trends and competitor insight updates
• Liaise regularly with subject matter experts to maximise knowledge and capability

Communication of the Sainsbury's Commercial Strategy

• Create engaging content for Food Commercial Leadership team to galvanise stakeholders behind the Sainsbury's Commercial Strategy and vision

What you need to know and show

• Obsessed with customers
• Understanding of commercial levers and complexity
• Able to analyse data and generate clear and structure insight
• Comfortable using Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
• Ability to lead and inspire others, at all levels
• Passion for retail markets, familiar with customer, market, competition and financial insights
• Highly numerate, hypothesis-led thinking
• Curiosity and drive
• Ability to build strong, business-wide relationships
• Simple, compelling storytelling ability with an engaging presentation style
• Balanced approach to decision making

Skills and experience

• Experience within the customer and commercial space, FMCG beneficial
• Experience analysing large and varied data sources and consolidating into meaningful insight. Team management in this space is beneficial.
• Track record of designing and delivering strategic change
• History of partnering and collaboration with range of cross-functional stakeholders, across a range of seniorities

Resources available to me

• Support from Food Proposition Lead
• Technology and access to tools necessary to do the job
• Support from cross functional business colleagues, including BU Ops in the food and grocery BU teams, Commercial Planning, Commercial Analytics, Finance, Insights

What decisions I can make

• Approach to ensure you are addressing the opportunity in a structured way
• Types of analysis that are most relevant
• Types of data that are most relevant
• Recommendation for outcome

#LI_MB3Responsibilities: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.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: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 xc2xa310k, 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 www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

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