Junior Agriculture Manager

Why join us

Joining us as an Agriculture Manager at Sainsbury's offers a unique and impactful opportunity to shape our sustainable sourcing practises. As a key player in our organisation, you will have the chance to drive positive change in animal welfare, environmental sustainability, commercial viability, and product quality. With a focus on building strong relationships with our trusted farming partners and external stakeholders, you will help align our initiatives with broader industry goals. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will play a crucial role in embedding agriculture priorities within category planning and joint business plans, driving meaningful change throughout our organisation. This role offers a platform to make a real difference and contribute to a more sustainable and resilient future for our agricultural supply chains.

 

What you'll do

As an Agriculture Manager, you'll work collaboratively across the business and our value chains to implement Sainsbury's Agriculture Strategy for your your areas of work. This includes sourcing policy, delivery of our Plan for Better sustainability commitments, innovation, supply chain resilience and security of supply, as well as our commercial Win In Food strategy. To achieve this, you'll engage and influence the Sainsburys commercial and technical teams, our supplier partners & farmers as well as other external bodies.

 

Who you are

As an Agriculture Manager at Sainsbury's, you are an experienced professional with a deep understanding of sustainable sourcing practises in the agricultural industry. With your background in agriculture and ideally a relevant degree, you bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to help shape the company's strategies and initiatives. Your exceptional communication skills allow you to effectively engage and manage relationships with key stakeholders, both internally and externally, including our trusted farming partners, industry organisations, and regulatory bodies. Your collaborative approach and ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams ensure the successful implementation of sustainable agricultural practises throughout our supply chains. By championing animal welfare, environmental sustainability, and product quality, you play a pivotal role in driving meaningful change and shaping the future of agriculture at Sainsbury's.

 

Essential Criteria:

• Degree in Agriculture, Animal Science, or a related subject, or demonstrable experience in the agricultural industry, evidencing technical knowledge and sector understanding

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our Sainsbury’s stores starts out in Sainsbury’s Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food, non- food and Clothing items available in Sainsbury’s stores, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about your products and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.

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 10% 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, 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.
 
 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).