TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Good degree of commercial acumen with a proven track record of commercial successes within this or other organisations
• A knowledge and understanding of Legal, competition law, anti-bribery and corruption and Intellectual Property and TSI
• Ability to analyse complex data from multiple sources to drive decisions and strategies
• Financially astute, understanding how own business decisions can influence shareholder value, and the financial levers to manage in order to drive performance
• Programme-manage cross functional activity to ensure milestones are met and blockers escalated & resolved, holding internal and external stakeholders to account
• Line management skills to create a culture of development and progression, ensure team delivers objectives and role models corporate values

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

• Commercial awareness from Account Management or New Business development experience, preferably within a Non-food E-Commerce environment
• Proven track record of delivering results to targets as an individual and within a team
• Demonstrate strong supplier relationships
• Ability to identify market trends and opportunities
• Able to balance short- and long-term objectives to deliver the channel strategy
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving dynamic retail environment
• Effective communicator, presenter, and team player with an ability to bring others with them to deliver the strategy, always approachable and visible.
• Demonstrate confidence and credibility with stakeholders (internal & external), influencing colleagues and suppliers at a Senior level
• Acts as a change agent and embraces new ways of working and share best-practice, responding resiliently when faced with ambiguity, able to challenge the norm
• Demonstrates understanding of business performance to understand that impact of their decisions
• Addresses difficult issues in an open and constructive way. Asking appropriate questions about performance
• Creating an environment of ownership and pro-active to make things happen
• Builds an effective network of stakeholders both internally and externally
• Brave decision making, mitigating risk to make effective commercial choices
  

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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 20% 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, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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 www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Please refer the Job description for details