Food Commercial - Assistant Product Developer

Food Commercial - Assistant Product Developer
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 21 May 2025
Requisition ID: 288734We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it's the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, 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 food and just as hungry to learn, you'll fit in perfectly.

Food Commercial - Assistant Product Developer

If you're studying for a food science or food related degree and thinking about starting your career in the food industry, there's nowhere better than Sainsbury's.

Ensuring our food always tastes delicious whenever it lands in our customers baskets is an important task, and one that falls to us in Sainsbury's Brand. Over the years, we've built up quite the reputation for quality, taste, welfare and sustainability, so everything we do, we do with that in mind. As a passionate foodie, you'll put everything you have learnt into practice to deliver projects of real business benefit, and build on your knowledge to understand what goes on behind the scenes to consistently deliver great tasting, safe products to our 22 million weekly customers whilst upholding our strong brand credentials.

More about the role

On the Sainsbury's Brand Product development team, you'll spend a year working alongside and being supported by experts in the Sainsbury's Brand team. You will have the opportunity to build on your breath of knowledge within a range of areas, whether that be Agriculture, Product Technology or Product Development.

Across the year you will:

Complete two 6 month projects- these will be specific to your area and will provide an opportunity to work cross-functionally within the Sainsbury's Own Brand division

Gain invaluable insight in to the Food Retail industry and how our business works

Develop presentation and stakeholder management skills through presenting the findings of your two projects to leaders within the business

Have the opportunity to work with and visit our suppliers, giving you access to the whole supply chain

Have the opportunity to work in Store, exploring how your work affects our retail colleagues, and how we work as one team

What we're looking for

A genuine foodie with a real passion for food and food retail

A food related degree

A desire to build on the learnings gained during your degree, and apply your knowledge to real life / work situations

Ability to soak up knowledge from others within our business

Time management and organisational skills

Teamworking skills with the ability to thrive in a team environment

Excellent communication skills and ability to present to a range of stakeholders

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 5% 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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.