# Head of Buying - Grocery (12m FTC)

**Company**: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd
**Location**: London, London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: Competitive Plus Benefits
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Head of Buying - Grocery to lead a team of Buyers and work closely with the Director of Category to drive commercial outcomes and deliver customer value.

The successful candidate will own the performance of a substantial part of the category P&L, setting buying and selling plans, shaping range, pricing, and promotional decisions, and leading complex supplier negotiations.

Key responsibilities include:

- Creating and executing the annual customer plan

- Building productive supplier relationships

- Maintaining contractual governance

- Allocating resources across the team

- Increasing the profile of the category across Sainsbury's

The ideal candidate will have:

- Strong P&L ownership and commercial delivery experience

- End-to-end buying and trading experience

- Leadership experience in complex supplier negotiations

- Ability to lead and develop a high-performing team

- Strategic thinking and attention to executional detail

- Advanced analytical capability and commercial judgement

We offer a competitive salary, plus benefits including:

- Colleague discount

- Pensions scheme and life cover

- Performance-related bonus of up to 65% of salary

- Annual holiday allowance

- Private healthcare

- Season ticket loans

- Cycle to work scheme

- Health cash plans

- Salary advance

- Access to discounts from hundreds of retailers

- Company car cash allowance

- Employee assistance programme

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## Skills

### Required
- P&L ownership
- buying and trading experience
- supplier negotiation
- team leadership
- strategic thinking
- analytical capability
- commercial judgement

### Nice to have
- data analysis
- automation
- budget management
- cross-category experience

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