FM Continuous Improvement Manager in Coventry

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.

Why join us

Joining the Facilities Management (FM) team at Sainsbury's means being part of a dynamic and forward‑thinking organisation where your strategic insights and project management skills play a vital role in driving continuous improvement and operational efficiencies within the FM service. With a focus on collaboration, innovation, and data‑driven decision‑making, you will have the opportunity to work with diverse stakeholders and make a significant impact by delivering strategic projects that align with business objectives.

What you’ll do

You’ll support strategic decision‑making by leveraging detailed analysis and insight creation to drive efficiencies and improvements in FM service delivery. You’ll provide strategic guidance for the FM team, identifying and delivering value‑add opportunities for continuous improvement, and developing robust project plans to ensure successful outcomes. By combining qualitative and quantitative data, you will generate well‑informed insights, track savings targets, and highlight areas of opportunity and risk to drive business value and enhance FM performance. Additionally, you will collaborate cross‑functionally to absorb property and retail information into FM analysis, innovate solutions to technical and operational challenges, and uphold the integrity of strategy, insight, and systems to ensure accuracy and informed decision‑making across Sainsbury’s.

Who you are

You have a strong background in insight creation and project management within the FM sector. Your ability to analyse data, generate strategic solutions, and deliver continuous improvement initiatives is essential in ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of FM services. With exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, you excel in collaborating with cross‑functional teams to drive operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and strategic decision‑making. Experience with Power BI or Tableau would be beneficial.

Essential criteria

• Strong analytical skills in Excel & strong presentation skills using PowerPoint
• Demonstrable experience using qualitative and quantitative data to spot trends & generate insights
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders across multiple functions in a large organisation, translating operational and commercial information into actionable improvement opportunities
• Evidence of developing and managing project plans
• Proven ability to lead and deliver continuous improvement initiatives

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.

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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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.