This is a secondment/Fixed Term Contract opportunity until end April 2027.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Projects & Mobilisation Manager offers the opportunity to lead strategic projects in Facilities Management (FM). With a focus on data-led decision-making and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future strategy of FM services. This role provides a dynamic environment where you can leverage your strategic thinking, project management skills, and industry insights to deliver impactful changes that enhance performance and drive business success.
What you'll do
You’ll be responsible for the management and successful implementation of strategic projects in FM, driving service improvements across the supply chain, and mobilisation of service or service improvement models. You will collaborate with stakeholders to shape the strategic view of the FM supply chain and service level standards, using a data-led approach and industry insights to enhance performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and drive efficiencies within the existing supply base while shaping the future strategy. Additionally, you will develop project implementation planning, contribute to business cases and benefits cases, track benefits delivery, identify service improvement opportunities, manage contract mobilisation and demobilisation effectively, and deliver project plans and mobilisations to key milestones, ensuring timelines are met and costs are controlled through the change period.
Who you are
You’re a strategic thinker with a proven track record in FM and project management, capable of driving change and delivering operational excellence through effective supplier management and service improvement initiatives. Your ability to develop compelling business cases supported by data-driven insights, coupled with your strong communication skills and stakeholder management expertise, enable you to lead cross-functional teams and engage with senior stakeholders to deliver successful project outcomes. With a focus on performance management, you excel in identifying efficiencies, driving innovation, and ensuring compliance within the FM supply chain.
Essential criteria
Demonstrable recent experience monitoring and improving supplier performance, including tracking against agreed service levels, identifying performance issues, and implementing corrective actions to ensure delivery against cost, quality and timeline requirements.
Proven ability to transform supplier management approaches, including redesigning processes & implementing performance frameworks.
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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving 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 scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.
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 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 up to an additional week's 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, 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).
Over 150 years old and still going strong, we’re the UK’s second-biggest retailer. Every day, the nation shops with us because they know they’ll get affordable, good food and excellent service.
We focus on great value and convenient shopping across our family of brands, from Argos, Nectar and Habitat to Sainsbury’s Bank, Smart Charge and Tu.
What’s next for Sainsbury’s?
We've put food back at the heart of our business and we’re taking Sainsbury’s to the next level. We’re investing in technology and people and we’re thinking bigger about how we attract and connect with our customers, while doing everything we can to create a more resilient UK food system.
