Merchandiser - Womenswear; Woven

Overview

Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits |

Location:

Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
| Contract type:
Fixed-Term Assignment | Business area:
Sainsbury's Commercial & Sustainability | Closing date: 09 June 2026 | Requisition :

Merchandiser - Womenswear (Woven) - Clothing 12 month Fixed Term Contract

We’re growing our Clothing team and have an exciting Merchandiser opportunity within Womenswear Woven. In this role, you’ll be right at the centre of how we plan, build and deliver ranges that truly connect with our customers. You’ll shape decisions, improve stock flow and influence the commercial direction of your category, working closely with buyers, suppliers and cross‑functional partners to drive performance.

If you bring a merchandising background ideally within clothing and want to play a key role in how our ranges come to life across all channels, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a team that values product, pace and customer insight.

What You’ll Do

• Take ownership of delivering a customer‑led merchandising strategy for your category, ensuring we build balanced and commercial ranges across Womenswear Woven.
• Use data, trends and customer insight to inform decisions, manage budgets and understand what truly drives performance.
• Work closely with Buying, Design, Supply Chain, Retail and suppliers to keep stock flowing, optimise availability, and deliver to key milestones in the critical path.
• Review performance regularly, identify risks and opportunities that help shape trade conversations, planning cycles and future ranges.
• From forecasting and trading to supporting great product decisions, be at the heart of bringing standout clothing ranges to our customers.

Who You Are

• Passion for product with curiosity about what makes customers buy.
• Experience in merchandising, ideally within clothing; confident working with data.
• Enjoy collaborating with buyers, suppliers and wider teams; strong communication skills.
• Organised, proactive and thrive in a fast-moving retail environment where you can influence results.
• Customer-focused with a positive, collaborative approach; desire to develop your career in a team that values creativity, pace and teamwork.

You’ll split your time between home and Coventry, coming into the office when it matters most for collaboration and business needs.

Commercial

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 (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).