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About the team
At Nectar360, we’re building the UK’s most powerful insight and data-led media services agency, creating valuable relationships between the UK’s favourite brands and their customers. Our Planning team underpins the whole business by taking data and turning it into actionable insight — shaping customer-led recommendations that help clients grow and help Sainsbury’s unlock the full value of its omni-channel media assets. If you’re energised by data-driven marketing, customer behaviour and commercial problem-solving, this is a chance to lead from the front in a team that sits at the heart of it all.
More about the role
Reporting into the Planning Director , you’ll lead a team of 7 planners and play a key role in driving Nectar360’s ambition and commercial aspirations across the Food division. You’ll set the direction for transformative, data-driven planning and in-store monetisation strategy across Sainsbury’s — ensuring our work is insight-led, commercially grounded, and built to deliver meaningful outcomes for clients and the wider business.
Day to day, you’ll build strong and collaborative ways of working with peers across Nectar360 leadership and the wider Sainsbury’s leadership teams (trading, grocery planning, marketing, propositions, digital etc.), to lead the commercialisation of omni-channel assets, and positively develop the culture of both the Planning team and the broader business. You’ll identify supplier opportunities within the Sainsbury’s corporate customer plan, shaping them into multi-brand retail media activations that maximise value across channels. You’ll also act as a senior voice for Nectar360 — influencing internal stakeholders, strengthening client commitment and investment in Sainsbury’s group media channels, and helping position Nectar360 as a leader in retail media and loyalty.
More about you
You’re a strategic thinker with a strong blend of data literacy, retail media knowledge, relationship-building expertise and commercial drive. You’re comfortable working with big data and complex challenges — and you know how to turn insight into compelling stories that land with senior stakeholders and translate into clear recommendations and action.
As a leader, you create clarity and momentum. You’ll be confident setting direction, prioritising competing requests, and governing delivery so your team consistently produces high-quality, insight-led proposals that reflect best-in-class retail media expertise and align to Sainsbury’s and Nectar guidelines. You’ll bring a coaching leadership style — developing capability, setting clear goals, and building a motivating, supportive environment where people can do their best work. You’ll also be credible and engaging at senior levels, with the ability to represent Nectar360 in broader forums (including speaking at industry events and across the Sainsbury’s business).
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. Everything our Nectar team does is powered and fuelled by data — and by great relationships with some of the UK’s favourite brands. The Nectar 360 team focuses on developing loyalty programmes, turning amazing data into something that makes a difference, traditional media and digital. It’s like an agency-within-a-retailer, and retail media is crucial. The culture might not be what you expect either, because there’s no set-up quite like this one. The team is a real priority because it’s connected to everything the business does and drives profitability. It’s where you can take risks, learn from them and be recognised.
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 target bonus of up to 20% of salary (which may vary for Nectar360), 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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