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About the team
You’ll be joining the Retail, Supply Chain and Logistics Finance team, partnering closely with our Retail Omnichannel and Logistics Transformation function. The team sits at the centre of some of the most strategic decisions across the retail operation, supporting major transformation programmes focused on delivering sustainable cost savings while protecting customer experience and long‑term performance. This is a high‑profile, fast‑moving environment where finance plays a crucial role in shaping direction and driving impact.
More about the role
As Finance Manager – Retail Cost Transformation, you will act as the key Finance Business Partner to the Director of Transformation and their leadership team. You’ll provide insightful analysis, constructive challenge, and commercial guidance to influence decisions around operating costs, investment choices, and delivery of savings targets. A typical day will involve reviewing cost performance, identifying risks and opportunities, shaping prioritisation discussions, and supporting senior stakeholders to make informed trade‑offs all with a specific focus on our Savings Programme.
You’ll play a key role in budgeting, forecasting, and corporate planning processes, monitor and report on CAPEX to support ROCE objectives, and own consistent, high‑quality management reporting across senior forums. In addition, you’ll lead ad‑hoc and bespoke analysis to support transformation initiatives and continuously improve how financial insight is used to drive outcomes.
More about you
To succeed in this role, you’ll bring demonstratable experience operating as a Finance Business Partner within a large and complex organisation, ideally supporting cost or transformation activity. You’ll be comfortable working in ambiguous, fast‑paced environments, able to create clarity, and confident challenging assumptions to ensure resources are focused on the right priorities.
You’ll be commercially minded, resilient, and credible with senior stakeholders, including at director level. A pragmatic, outcome‑focused mindset, combined with the ability to influence, prioritise effectively, and maintain robust financial controls, will underpin your success.
Essential criteria
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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not handling projects, we’re helping all corners of the wider group with what they’re trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there’s always something else around the corner, and we’ll help and support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here.
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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 additional holiday. 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, pay 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
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).
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