Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 15 June 2025
Requisition ID: 302275

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.

Joining Sainsbury\'s as a Macro Space Analyst provides an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of one of the largest change programmes in our company\'s history. You will play a pivotal role by leveraging your analytical skills to influence key decisions and drive commercial and customer outcomes. With exposure to diverse stakeholders across the organisation, you will have the chance to collaborate with various teams and be recognised as an expert in space recommendations. In addition to a supportive work environment, we provide extensive on-the-job training, endless growth opportunities, and a range of attractive benefits. Discover the rewards of being part of our dynamic team by joining us today.

What you\'ll do

Joining our Commercial Operations team in our Central London head office, as a Macro Space Analyst, your analysis and recommendations will directly influence key decisions and provide exposure to various stakeholders across different functions. Your main responsibility will be creating optimal space allocations to drive the best commercial outcomes and enhance the customer experience. Collaborating with trading teams, internal and external partners, you will contribute to the development of industry-leading tools and models. By evaluating store and category performance, you will identify opportunities to improve space utilisation and support the Macro Space Manager on various projects. Through effective communication and expert analysis, you will effectively articulate space recommendations and their impact on stakeholders. By achieving a balanced scorecard of measures, you will help drive customer choice, financial performance, and operational compliance. Your commitment to continuous learning and engagement with stakeholders will establish you as an \'expert\' in space recommendations. You\'ll also get to lead, develop and line manage in this role.

Who you are

As a Macro Space Analyst you are a highly analytical and influential professional who thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You will have a deep understanding of the grocery market and excellent data manipulation and analysis skills. You will be highly proficient in Excel and your recommendations and analysis directly impact key decisions, fostering collaboration with stakeholders across various functions in the organisation. Your expertise in retail, space optimisation and allocation enables you to deliver incremental sales, volume, and profit growth by creating optimal space allocations that enhance commercial and customer outcomes. With your excellent communication skills and ability to articulate space analysis outputs, you effectively engage with stakeholders and become recognised as an expert in space recommendations. Line management experience is preferred or you will need to demonstrate leading through projects and influencing cross functionally.

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 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 additional 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, 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.
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).