This is a well balanced management role with clear accountability youll understand exactly whats expected of you and who to turn to for support. Whether you already have some supervisory experience or youre looking to make the step up, its the perfect chance to get close to your team and grow your skills.
What youll be doing
Our purpose is that driven by our passion for food, together we serve and help every customer.
Food sets the standard for the rest of the store getting it right means our customers choose to return again and again so its critical that grocery, fresh and produce are always available and looking their best. Your leadership will deliver throughout the day, every day. Reporting into our Lead Food Manager, your job is focused on operational in-store management, ensuring that your area is running smoothly, day in, day out.
Theres an emphasis on managing a medium to large instore team assigning tasks and planning breaks, creating rotas, addressing performance issues both sensitively and effectively, and helping with recruitment. Youll be a visible leader on the shop floor, a role model who drives training and creates a team where everyone feels welcome, and colleagues feel safe to challenge the way things are done.
What success looks like
Theres lots to achieve. Heres how youll know youre developing:
- Youre supporting the Lead Food Manager to deliver improved customer and retail outcomes in your area
- Youll work closely with another Food Manager, sharing ideas and identifying ways to improve things, and provide a brilliant handover from each shift to the next
- Youre confident being direct with your team youre giving honest feedback, early and often
- Youve learned how to help your team to put themselves in the customers shoes, taking genuine pride in how we deliver a better service
- Youre increasingly making decisions at pace and comfortable not knowing all the answers
Were open minded about your career trajectory. Youre probably already managing or supervising people in a similarly fast-paced setting and confident to deal with the many different challenges each day throws up your team are depending on you!
Youll need to share Sainsburys love of technology. Were ahead of the curve here we do as much as we can digitally from stock management to rotas.
What matters most is you youre motivated to develop, dedicated to bringing out the best in others and, like all of us, passionate about customer service. After all, thats what our stores are all about.
Where next?
The Sainsburys instore management structure is designed precisely to help people like you to progress, and where everyone has the support and the opportunity to deliver excellence. Youll be coached by your manager to deliver great performance, whilst having plenty of scope to develop.
As a Food Manager you could move into a Lead Manager role in Food, In-store Customer Experience, Clothing or General Merchandise. Looking further ahead, its great preparation for a Store Management role or a leadership challenge across the Sainsburys family: Habitat, Tu, Argos, Sainsburys Bank and Nectar 360. Trust us we know how to make the most of your potential.
Added benefits
Salary will be dependent upon your experience as well as the store size, complexity and location. Alongside this, we also offer a great range of benefits for all our colleagues, including:
- Discount card provided after 4 weeks that gives you and a second user 10% on most items in Sainsburys, Argos and Habitat. Discount is increased at Sainsburys to 15% every pay day for five days plus 15% at Argos on every pay day.
- Free food and hot drinks provided for Colleagues in all our stores.
- Generous holiday entitlement, maternity and paternity leave
- Pension well match 4-7.5% of your pension contributions
- Sainsburys share scheme build up an investment at discounted rates
- Wellbeing support access to emotional support, counselling, legal and financial advice
- Colleague networks link with like-minded people to help fulfil your potential
- Our Cycle to Work scheme gives you the opportunity to hire a new bike and cycling equipment, whilst saving on tax and NI
- Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
