Clothing Central Merchandiser
About the team
The Clothing Commercial function at Sainsbury’s is entering an exciting next phase of growth, with a strong focus on change, improvement and optimisation across the operating model. Embedded within Commercial, the Clothing Operations and Central Merchandising team plays a key role in driving collaboration, agility and future-focused thinking, while providing the central governance required to deliver our strategy. Working across all clothing categories, the team partners closely with Category, Supply Chain, Technology and Change colleagues to establish effective frameworks and guardrails that support strong commercial performance and great customer outcomes.
More about the role
As Clothing Central Merchandiser, you will enhance decision-making across the Plan, Buy and Sell/Move lifecycle, supporting Clothing Commercial teams to achieve range productivity, availability and stock volume and cover targets. You will facilitate newly developed planning frameworks, regularly analyse performance and report against key measures, enabling stakeholders to take timely, data-led actions.
You will also support the day-to-day operation and ongoing development of the Merchandise Financial Planning (Anaplan) system. Working closely with category teams, Sainsbury’s Technology, Product Support and Change & Improvement teams, you will help maintain smooth operation, contribute to system and reporting enhancements, oversee key administration activities, and support the development of a strong Anaplan user community across Clothing merchandising.
More about you
You enjoy working with complex data and using insight to support strong commercial decision-making. Comfortable working cross-functionally in a complex environment, you can balance multiple priorities, problem-solve effectively and maintain pace while keeping sight of the bigger picture on stock management and financial planning.
Collaborative by nature, you build strong relationships quickly and are confident working with a broad range of stakeholders. Curious and improvement-focused, you are motivated to create new and better ways of working, contributing ideas that enhance processes, tools and outcomes, always with the customer at the centre of decision-making.
Essential criteria
1. High levels of commercial acumen with deep understanding of merchandising, planning and commercial operations
2. Ability to build structured, forward-looking plans and strategies whilst balancing short term needs
3. Interpreting data to provide actionable insights
4. Experience using planning, forecasting or financial modelling tools to inform stock, availability or trading plans
5. Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders in a complex organisational structure
6. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting insight clearly to varied audiences
7. Clear customer focus, ensuring decisions support the delivery of desired customer outcomes
#Commercial
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 in Sainsbury’s Commercial. From product, proposition, packaging and price, to whether it meets our sustainability commitments or simply tastes great, our team is responsible for, all food, non- food and Clothing items available in Sainsbury’s stores, online and on demand. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment. People here are in it together and aren’t afraid to take risks. 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 your products and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.
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 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.
Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).