Merchandiser - Grocery Operations

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits. Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA. Contract type: Secondment. Business area: Food Commercial. Closing date: 12 February 2026. Requisition ID: 400046793.

Joining Sainsbury's as a Merchandiser in our Grocery & GM Operations team means being part of a leading retail organisation with a commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences. As a key member of our Food Commercial division, you will have the opportunity to create best-in-class planograms for our plinths, ensuring they are customer-friendly and align with our corporate merchandising principles. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to shaping retail execution strategies and optimising product displays. With a focus on detail, organisational skills, and customer-centric thinking, you will play a vital role in enhancing the shopping experience for millions of customers.

What you'll do

• As a Merchandiser in Grocery Operations at Sainsbury's, your main responsibility will be to create best-in-class planograms for plinths across both supermarkets and convenience stores, ensuring they are customer-friendly, easy to shop, and align with corporate merchandising principles and rule sets.
• You will develop the merchandising strategy for plinths supporting the delivery of key value messages as well as seasonal events.
• Collaborating with the Category, Supply Chain, and Retail teams, you will work towards producing and delivering planograms that are suitable for right-first-time store execution.
• You will track milestones, handle cross-functional communication, and address queries from retail in a timely and efficient manner.
• Your attention to detail, organisation skills, and ability to prioritise and plan your workload will be key to successfully completing tasks.
• Your strong analytical skills will help you manipulate and analyse data effectively.

Ultimately, your role will contribute to enhancing the customer experience through effective merchandising strategies and well-executed planograms.

Who you are

• You are a detail-oriented and highly organised professional with a strong understanding of merchandising principles and customer behaviour.
• You possess excellent analytical skills, allowing you to manipulate and analyse data effectively to create best-in-class planograms that adhere to corporate merchandising principles and ensure ease of shopping for customers.
• Your ability to communicate and engage with cross-functional teams enables you to collaborate successfully and influence decisions that enhance retail execution.
• With your customer-focused mindset and retail display perspective, you prioritise and plan your workload efficiently to deliver accurate and timely planograms, driving positive stakeholder feedback.

Requirements

• Demonstratable experience creating or supporting the delivery of merchandising planograms using relevant software.
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while meeting deadlines.
• Demonstratable understanding of retail customer behaviour and core merchandising principles.
• Proven ability to interpret and work with data using Excel and other business tools.
• Demonstratable ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.

Benefits and culture

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 5% 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.

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