Sainsbury's Bank
Sainsbury’s Bank is part of the Sainsbury’s Group, one of the UK’s leading retailers across food, clothing, general merchandise and financial services. We’re continually expanding our offer to help our customers live well for less in all sorts of exciting ways. And creating all sorts of exciting careers paths along the way. Discover our other brands Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat on LinkedIn.
About us
We're proud to be the UK's first supermarket bank and we're proud of our heritage.
Everyone is welcome at the Sainsbury’s, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.
We’re here to be the provider of Financial Services for loyal Sainsbury’s and Argos customers. And we’re focussed on being an agile, capital and cost-efficient provider of simple, mobile-led financial services.
We offer Sainsbury’s shoppers great deals and rewards for choosing to shop and bank with us. We provide a range of award winning products including credit cards, savings and loans, travel money and car, home, pet, travel and life insurance which we provide online and by telephone. We also offer Argos customers the Argos Card , which enables them to spread the cost of their purchases in Argos, as well as Argos Care for when breakdowns and accidents happen.
We have travel money bureaux at various Sainsbury's supermarkets across the UK and a large ATM estate.
Nectar card holders receive additional points and preferential rates across a range of products.
We’re delighted you’re thinking about joining us. On these pages you’ll find some info about what it means to join our team.
Great place to work
We aim to make our Bank a great place to work for all colleagues.
It’s an exciting time to join us as our customers seek more and more innovative services and technology, being part of one of the UK’s most trusted brands brings our colleagues exciting opportunities to fulfill their potential.
We want our people to develop their skills and knowledge to be the best they can be, learning from each other, their managers and through structured learning activity that develops behavioural and technical capability.
We want our colleagues to stay with us because they feel valued and stimulated. Because of this, they’ll recommend us as a great place to work. It feels different to work at our Bank because our values guide everything we do and we have a warm culture where inventive collaborative thinking is encouraged.
Women In Finance Charter
The Women in Finance Charter was created by HM Treasury to support and motivate finance companies to implement specific activity that, over time, will help to address the gender imbalance at senior leadership levels.
In 2018 Sainsbury’s Bank, including Argos Financial Services, signed the Charter, in line with Sainsbury’s Group’s aspirations to be the most inclusive retailer, where people love to work and shop.
We want ours to be an environment where everyone feels included and valued for who they are. Increasing the diversity of our leadership team is an important part of our plans to achieve this.
We have made the following commitments: -
- Brian Monaghan, our Audit Director, is our executive team member who is responsible and accountable for gender diversity and inclusion
- Our target is that at least 40% of senior role holders will be female by 2024
- We will publish our progress against our target annually
- Each of our executive team have performance objectives relating to this target.
Diversity & Inclusion
Being an inclusive business with diverse representation at all levels of our business is important to us. We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer where every single one of our colleagues is treated fairly and with respect. We want our colleagues to fulfil their potential and our customers feel welcome when they shop with us.
Tech Stack
Our tech stack includes, but is not limited to:
Frontend
Backend
DevOps
Data
Our Benefits
Annual bonus
- We operate a number of discretionary bonus schemes that are role specific. As you progress your career with us, there will be the opportunity for additional rewards, plus for our senior leaders we have a unique long-term incentive scheme.
Colleague discount card
- 12 weeks into your role, you’re eligible for a handy 10% off your shop. That’s every time you spend with Sainsbury’s or Argos, and Habitat in store and online.
Pension
- Pension is an important part of our total reward package and a great way to help you to plan for the future. We’ll automatically enrol you onto our pension scheme, and we’ll give you free life cover, equating to a year’s pay. If you choose to pay more with Step Up contributions, then your pension and life cover increases
Holidays
- We offer paid holiday entitlement that grows as your career does as well as a holiday buying scheme which gives you the opportunity to add to your standard contractual allowance.
Car & Season ticket loans
- Depending on the level of your role you may be eligible for a company car or cash car allowance.
- Been here for 12 weeks or more and passed your probation? Then you’re eligible for our interest-free loan to purchase a travel card.
Sharesave scheme
- Sharesave is a savings plan that allows you to buy Sainsbury’s shares at a discounted share price. You can save anything from £5 to £250 every 4 weeks from your post-tax pay, for three years. After three years, you can either take back the money you’ve saved or you can use your savings to buy Sainsbury’s shares at a discounted price.
Sainsbury’s share purchase plan (SSPP)
- Once you’ve completed twelve months’ continuous service, you’ll be able to join our Share Purchase Plan. This plan enables you to buy Sainsbury’s shares from your pre-tax salary which remain tax free if they are held for at least five years. You can contribute between £8 and £115 (capped at 10% of your salary) each pay period from your pre-tax salary and you can change the amount you invest at any time.
Cycle to work scheme
- Our Cycle to Work scheme gives you the opportunity to hire a new bike and cycling equipment. This is a salary sacrifice scheme and you pay for the hire through a reduction in your pre-tax salary, meaning you can save money on tax and national insurance. Sainsbury’s also pass on a 10% discount, up to £100, meaning you’ll save on the total cost of the bike.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- The wellbeing of all our colleagues is really important to us, so we have an Employee Assistance Programme.
- The service is confidential and free of charge to all colleagues who may need short term support such as counselling, legal advice, or debt advice.
Long Service
- Recognising our colleagues’ long service is an important way of cheering on progress. We have a variety of ways of doing this, depending upon your length of service.
Family-friendly
- We want to support colleagues taking time out to have a family. In addition to statutory shared parental leave, our enhanced leave policies mean that once you have 1 year’s continuous service (15 weeks before the baby is due) you can take 26 weeks of paid maternity leave*, followed by a further 13 weeks at the statutory rate of pay.
- 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave* once you’ve worked with us for a year (15 weeks before the baby is due)
- We also offer a variety of flexible working options to help our colleagues to balance their home and work commitments
Love it
- Love it is the home of a range of extra benefits where you can save money on everyday purchases and take advantage of exclusion discounts and savings at over a thousand retailers, including restaurants, cinemas and retail stores. It is also where we cheer on the progress of our colleagues and the platform is designed to celebrate the fantastic work of our colleagues who’ve gone the extra mile and live our values every day.
Annual bonus
- We operate a number of discretionary bonus schemes that are role specific. As you progress your career with us, there will be the opportunity for additional rewards, plus for our senior leaders we have a unique long-term incentive scheme.
Colleague discount card
- 12 weeks into your role, you’re eligible for a handy 10% off your shop. That’s every time you spend with Sainsbury’s or Argos, and Habitat in store and online.
Pension
- Pension is an important part of our total reward package and a great way to help you to plan for the future. We’ll automatically enrol you onto our pension scheme, and we’ll give you free life cover, equating to a year’s pay. If you choose to pay more with Step Up contributions, then your pension and life cover increases
Holidays
- We offer paid holiday entitlement that grows as your career does as well as a holiday buying scheme which gives you the opportunity to add to your standard contractual allowance.
Car & Season ticket loans
- Depending on the level of your role you may be eligible for a company car or cash car allowance.
- Been here for 12 weeks or more and passed your probation? Then you’re eligible for our interest-free loan to purchase a travel card.
Sharesave scheme
- Sharesave is a savings plan that allows you to buy Sainsbury’s shares at a discounted share price. You can save anything from £5 to £250 every 4 weeks from your post-tax pay, for three years. After three years, you can either take back the money you’ve saved or you can use your savings to buy Sainsbury’s shares at a discounted price.
Sainsbury’s share purchase plan (SSPP)
- Once you’ve completed twelve months’ continuous service, you’ll be able to join our Share Purchase Plan. This plan enables you to buy Sainsbury’s shares from your pre-tax salary which remain tax free if they are held for at least five years. You can contribute between £8 and £115 (capped at 10% of your salary) each pay period from your pre-tax salary and you can change the amount you invest at any time.
Cycle to work scheme
- Our Cycle to Work scheme gives you the opportunity to hire a new bike and cycling equipment. This is a salary sacrifice scheme and you pay for the hire through a reduction in your pre-tax salary, meaning you can save money on tax and national insurance. Sainsbury’s also pass on a 10% discount, up to £100, meaning you’ll save on the total cost of the bike.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- The wellbeing of all our colleagues is really important to us, so we have an Employee Assistance Programme.
- The service is confidential and free of charge to all colleagues who may need short term support such as counselling, legal advice, or debt advice.
Long Service
- Recognising our colleagues’ long service is an important way of cheering on progress. We have a variety of ways of doing this, depending upon your length of service.
Family-friendly
- We want to support colleagues taking time out to have a family. In addition to statutory shared parental leave, our enhanced leave policies mean that once you have 1 year’s continuous service (15 weeks before the baby is due) you can take 26 weeks of paid maternity leave*, followed by a further 13 weeks at the statutory rate of pay.
- 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave* once you’ve worked with us for a year (15 weeks before the baby is due)
- We also offer a variety of flexible working options to help our colleagues to balance their home and work commitments
Love it
- Love it is the home of a range of extra benefits where you can save money on everyday purchases and take advantage of exclusion discounts and savings at over a thousand retailers, including restaurants, cinemas and retail stores. It is also where we cheer on the progress of our colleagues and the platform is designed to celebrate the fantastic work of our colleagues who’ve gone the extra mile and live our values every day.
Blogs
5 Tips for Stepping Away from Your Screen
Feeling the Zoom fatigue? Sore eyes from looking at your computer screen all day? Here are our top tips on how to switch off the screens and switch on the fun.
https://www.sainsburysbank.co.uk/money-matters/how-to-achieve-your-bucket-list-goals
Make money. Buy a house. Learn a new language. Whatever’s top of your bucket list, you might feel like it’s a little out of reach. And you’re not alone. In a recent Sainsbury’s Bank survey, only 17% said they feel ‘very confident’ they’ll achieve their bucket list.*
Survey Reveals Most Popular Bucket List Ideas
Wrapped up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s important. Sometimes we need to pause and think ‘what is my ambition in life?’
Locations
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Edinburgh
3 Lochside Avenue, Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh, EH12 9DJ
London (Holborn)
33 Holborn, London, EC1N 2HT
Manchester
Arndale House, Manchester, M4 3AL
Coventry
Ansty Park, Unit 1, Draken Drive, Coventry CV7 9RD
Our Remote Working Policy
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role, including flexible working options such as job shares and part time working.
We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours within their working days, giving plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.
Our Interview Process
STEP ONE
Application online
If you’re interested in applying and are excited about working with us, but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience – we’d still love to hear from you!
STEP TWO
Hiring Manager interview
If your application is successful you will be asked to take part in an interview with the hiring manager.
STEP THREE
Online assessment(s)
We may also ask you to complete online tests which will be sent to you by email.
STEP FOUR
We'll be in touch
During the recruitment process you will be told when you can expect to hear whether or not you’ve been successful and will be given feedback from your interview.
STEP ONE
Application online
If you’re interested in applying and are excited about working with us, but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience – we’d still love to hear from you!
STEP TWO
Hiring Manager interview
If your application is successful you will be asked to take part in an interview with the hiring manager.
STEP THREE
Online assessment(s)
We may also ask you to complete online tests which will be sent to you by email.
STEP FOUR
We'll be in touch
During the recruitment process you will be told when you can expect to hear whether or not you’ve been successful and will be given feedback from your interview.