Digital Trading Lead

Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA

Contract type:
Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area:
Retail
Closing date: 03 July 2026

Requisition :

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. As the link between sellers and buyers, retail and head office, our Retail Operations team is the cog that keeps things running. With teams focused on store-facing activity, labour, transformation, online, delivery and contact centres, we touch almost every part of the business. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment, where you need to pivot not just daily, but often hourly.

So while we plan as much as we can, it’s vital that we all think beyond our job descriptions and look for ways to optimise and improve everything we do. There’s also a real team ethos here. After all, it’s people like you who will truly transform this part of the business.

Reporting to the Digital Trading Manager, the
Digital Trading Lead - Food is accountable for owning and driving the performance and growth of their specific categories across digital channels, ensuring that their category strategies are brilliantly executed within our customer missions.

What you need to do:

• Daily review of performance resulting in clear actions to capitalise on opportunities and/or mitigate risks. Drive improvements in line with business targets. Responsible for conducting regular site-walks to review customer journey and check information accuracy, addressing any issues
• Responsible for the performance of their category including highlighting key actions taken, opportunities and risks and the performance narrative
• Develop and be accountable for the delivery of the category plan up to 6 months out, this includes implementation and trading of it, flagging risks and challenges to digital trading manager as needed
• Accountable for regular category optimisation utilising tools and insights to improve digital metrics and outcomes (e.g. Adobe/Glassbox/SIP)
• Accountable for owning delivery of category BAU initiatives such as range reviews, newness and cycle changes
• Responsible for proactively building relationships with commercial (buying) and other key stakeholders by attending key sessions to support execution of digital day-to-day and championing the digital channel. Attend key Category meetings, cascades, and relevant away days, sharing performance updates and helping shape the commercial strategy
• Obsess over the customer and how they shop. Work with relevant stakeholders and leverage customer data to optimise their experience of your categories including working collaboratively with other Digital Trading Leads to deliver cross category customer focussed missions.
• Supporting Digital Trading Manager with supplier relationships including relevant data and insight and attending meetings as appropriate. This includes partnering with Nectar
  360 on retail media opportunities in your categories
• Accountable for owning key trading events and online merchandising levers.
• Where relevant, accountable for day-to-day management of a Digital Trading Assistant (DTA) in the (offshore) DOC team
• Ensure that you are working within all legal frameworks
• Responsible for deputising the Digital Trading manager where required

What you need to know and show:

• You are passionate about e-Commerce and Retail
• You have experience of building and delivering plans aligned to a strategy
• You have experience working in a fast moving and pressured environment and are able to manage projects on time and to budget
• You have strong analytical and numerical capabilities and are able to plan and make recommendations based on data and insight, ensuring clear storytelling
• Experience working with an online retailer and using online analytics
• Experience in trading positions
• You are good at influencing and negotiating, able to satisfy varying needs in the face of conflicting demands
• You have great planning and prioritising skills in order to deliver plans to deadline
• You have a high level of customer focus and are able to work with collaboratively with others
• You are able to anticipate next steps, future risks and…