Location
South East London Area

Hours
Full Time - hours as per store requirements

Salary
Negotiable, dependent on experience, store size, complexity and location

About the Role
As a Convenience Store Manager at Sainsbury's, you will have full control over your shop and be an accountable leader who ensures we deliver on our purpose to make good food joyful, accessible and affordable for everyone, every day. You will lead a team of Customer and Trading Managers who run the shifts, while you plan and prepare for upcoming trading activity with a commercial mindset, anticipating issues from today up to six months ahead. Your role involves ensuring everything is safe and legal, managing daily operations, and adapting to retail’s evolving business initiatives and change programmes. This position carries significant responsibility but offers a highly rewarding experience.

You will be a hands-on leader, driving your team to deliver brilliant customer experiences and continuously improve the customer journey. Your leadership will empower your team to raise the bar every day, ensuring product availability, safety standards, and seamless store operations. Your impact will make work more rewarding for colleagues and shopping a next-level experience for customers, bringing our purpose to life one action at a time.

Working for Sainsbury's offers great rewards including an annual bonus scheme based on performance, a discount card offering 10% off shopping after four weeks (increasing to 15% off on Fridays and Saturdays), generous holiday entitlement, maternity and paternity leave, pension contributions matched between 4-7.5%, a share scheme to build investments at discounted prices, wellbeing support including emotional support and counselling, colleague networks, Cycle to Work scheme, and special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.

Experience
Proven experience leading a fast-paced retail operation with accountability for delivering customer, financial and organisational outcomes. Experience managing employee relations cases including dismissals and confident in understanding and applying HR policies. Demonstrated ability to use data and insight to inform planning, improve performance, and enhance customer experience and KPIs.

About you
A passionate leader who role models excellent service and business values through teams of managers and colleagues. Able to lead change effectively, delivering engagement on purpose while managing team wellbeing. Strong decision-maker who walks the talk, showing up every day as a role model for service and values. Skilled at developing and supporting leadership capability within your team, helping others step up and succeed.

Qualifications
We are an inclusive employer committed to supporting all colleagues to achieve their full potential. We offer a range of development opportunities including mentorship, training and career progression pathways. We provide resources to help colleagues understand and support their roles and teams effectively. Reasonable adjustments are available during application and interview stages to support candidates as needed.