Logistics Network Strategy Manager

Overview

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury\’s as a Network Strategy Manager means becoming part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to transforming and enhancing our logistics network to deliver exceptional customer experiences and sustainable business growth. With a focus on translating long-term business forecasts into strategic programmes, you\’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with key stakeholders, drive innovation, and shape the future of our network design.

What you\’ll do

Here you will play a critical role in developing and implementing the future logistics network design based on business goals, ensuring optimal logistics network solutions are established to support the company\’s growth and transformation. You will collaborate with key stakeholders to translate long-term forecasts into actionable strategies, create fully costed business cases, and identify opportunities for improving cost and service across operations and technical teams.

Your focus will be on shaping the network strategy, staying informed on industry trends, adapting strategies in response to business performance, and supporting delivery teams to ensure successful implementation of business case benefits, all while fostering a culture of inclusive leadership and customer-focused decision-making.

Who you are

You are a strategic thinker and collaborative leader with a strong background in logistics network structure and end-to-end supply chain operations. Your ability to translate business goals into clear, strategic programmes and build strong business cases demonstrates your commercial acumen and data-driven decision-making skills.

With a proactive and improvement-focused approach, you stay informed on industry best practises in automation and logistics, driving continuous evolution of the network strategy to enhance customer service and support financial objectives. Your inclusive leadership style, excellent communication, and stakeholder engagement skills enable you to work effectively across cross-functional teams, shaping opportunities for operational efficiencies and sustainable growth in a dynamic and challenging environment.

Essential Criteria

• Strong working knowledge of logistics network structure, operations, and end-to-end supply chain.
• Proven ability to translate business goals into clear, strategic programmes.
• Comfortable working across detail and strategy, including in complex or ambiguous situations.
• Experience working in large, cross-functional organisations using project management tools and methods.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas clearly.
• Commercially aware, with the ability to build strong business cases and use data to inform decisions.
• Curious, improvement-focused, and up to date with industry best practices in automation and logistics.
• Committed to inclusive leadership and customer-focused decision-making.
• Strong relationship builder with a collaborative mindset and problem-solving approach.

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 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 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 up to an additional week\’s holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, 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.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Responsibilities

We believe in providing meaningful work and achieving a real work/life balance. Here, you\’ll find both. Our Supply Chain team is the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories to our millions of customers every day. We leverage insight and data to anticipate customer needs, ensuring they get what they want, when they need it. You\’ll be part of a team that is data-driven and judgement-focused, always the first to identify and address any issues or ambiguities. A culture of collaboration, customer obsession, and continuous improvement drives us to deliver market-leading product availability and operational excellence, and fuels our innovation. Our Supply Chain team calls for people who champion change, are customer-obsessed, data-driven, and excel at collaborating and communicating effectively – because those people can go a very long way.