Brand Growth Manager

As the Brand Growth Manager at Sainsbury's, you will play a pivotal role in driving sustainable growth for the company's ranges through the Brands only at Sainsbury’s. Your responsibilities will include defining the growth ambition and key objectives for key Sainsbury’s product propositions and brands, identifying growth opportunities, and leading the development of commercial brand growth plans to showcase brands exclusively at Sainsbury’s. By collaborating with cross-functional teams and integrating brand growth priorities into existing business processes, you will work towards achieving volume, sales, profit, and market share objectives to enhance the customer experience and drive business performance. You’ll have one direct report to lead, support and develop.

You are a strategic and customer-focused professional with a solid background in developing and executing commercial brand strategies and growth plans in the retail, FMCG, or manufacturing industry. Your ability to analyse data, prioritise opportunities, and drive customer engagement is complemented by your strong relationship-building skills and experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives. With a strategic mindset, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and solid people management skills, you play a key role in defining and implementing growth initiatives to elevate Sainsbury's brands and drive sustainable growth across various channels.

• Ability to understand and interpret complex large data sets and information. 

• Highly proficient and experienced in drawing insights and making recommendations using both customer and commercial data.

• Experience of developing and executing commercial brand strategies and growth plans in retail, FMCG or manufacturing; proven ability to both define a strategy and translate strategy into clearly defined actions

• Experience in presenting and excellent storytelling cross functionally and strong ability to engage and influence colleagues at all levels including senior management.

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).