Using and embracing digital tools to do your job well and enhance customer experience
Helping organise and move stock, including keeping shelves tidy, clean and well-presented, and manoeuvring often heavy loads to the correct store location
Building your knowledge of our products, services and promotions so you can confidently make helpful recommendations to our customers
What it takes to be part of our team
Friendly and welcoming, with a genuine enthusiasm for helping customers
Thrive working in a fast-paced, physical and high-energy environment
A committed team player, always willing to support colleagues and work together
Flexibility and willingness to work across the store and take on new challenges
Open to learning, developing and trying new things to improve our service
Confident learning to use new digital tools and technology to do your job brilliantly
Take pride and ownership in your work, including close attention to detail, maintaining a clean and tidy work space and always looking for ways to make our customer experience better
Supporting you at work and beyond
We offer our colleagues a wide range of rewards and provide competitive benefits:
Discount card – After 4 weeks employment, 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu, and Habitat, increasing to 15% discount at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday
Holiday entitlement – based on the hours you work
Enhanced Family Leave – Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and more
Pension and life cover – we’ll match between 4-7.5% of your pension contributions and up to 6x life cover
Sainsbury’s share schemes – buy Sainsbury’s shares at discounted prices
Other Retail savings – discounts on eating out, holidays and at other retailers
Physical wellbeing – cycle to work and bike rental schemes, reduced price gym access and Health/Dental cash plans
Mental wellbeing – 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme and Online wellbeing platform
Financial support – interest-free season ticket loans, Pay advance, affordable loans and savings directly from your pay and financial wellbeing resources
Working in our stores
Our stores are at their busiest during the festive season, when customers are counting on us to help make this magical time of year truly special. To get our store teams ready, we have both permanent and fixed-term vacancies available so please check the contract type above before applying to make sure it is the right role for you.
Important checks before you apply
You must be above the school-leaver age in your country School leaving age - GOV.UK
If the Availability Window includes shifts before 6.00am or after 11.00pm, you will need to be aged 18 or over
You must have Right to Work eligibility in the UK
An inclusive place to work and shop
We are dedicated to being a truly inclusive retailer, where every colleague can achieve their full potential, and every customer feels welcome when they shop with us.
To support this commitment, our colleagues may be entitled to a range of enhanced discretionary leave for families, as well as support for carers. We provide our colleagues resources to help them understand and support their role and their team effectively. Our internal colleague networks seek to ensure true representation for everyone, helping us identify and remove barriers that our colleagues may face.
We are proud to offer a range of development opportunities, including mentorship, training, and career progression pathways, to help our colleagues grow and succeed. We also celebrate diversity through various initiatives and events, fostering a culture of inclusion and respect. If you would like to learn more about our commitment to inclusivity, please take a look here.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview stages, please let us know, and we will endeavour to support you.
Sainsbury’s company vision
Our vision is to be the most trusted retailer, where people love to work and shop. That means harnessing the talent, creativity and diversity of our colleagues to ensure that customers receive great service every time they shop with us.
If you would like to hear more about our vision and values, be sure to visit our corporate page.
We invest in training, development and multiple initiatives to ensure our teams feel enabled to offer the best shopping experience to our customers and that Sainsbury’s is truly a ‘Great Place to Work’.
We’re in the business of looking after our biggest asset. Our people.
That means making it our business to properly take care of the potential and wellbeing of our truly outstanding teams. Join us in HR, and we’ll make it yours too.
They bring the spark, the funny, the graft, the grit. And they’re literally the most important asset we have. So it’s in our interests to give the people at Sainsbury’s everything they need to feel valued, engaged and motivated, and truly able to shine.
That’s where our HR colleagues have a pivotal role to play. From our ‘centre of excellence’ teams in Reward and Recruitment, through to our core teams in Change and Talent, they’re creating environments that allow our colleagues to thrive and we’re proud of their incredible ability to understand Sainsbury’s inside out.
The availability window below shows when we’d expect you to be available to work during the week. Your shifts will be planned within these times and shared with you three weeks in advance. We support flexible working, so even if your availability isn’t an exact match but is similar, please apply, we’d love to hear from you.
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