Sainsburys - Graduate Commercial Scheme

What does the scheme involve?
The Commercial Team is committed to delivering the goal of ‘Better, Simpler and for Less’ - a service which is Better for our customers, Simpler for our Colleagues and for Less cost to Sainsbury's. Our areas of Store Development, Construction, Planning, Feasibility, Space, Energy, Procurement, Simple Stores and Facilities Management are responsible for all costs outside of wages and the goods we sell in shops, accounting for around £2.3b of spend. A lot of which, if saved, become profit immediately.

The Commercial scheme is 18 months long and you'll spend your first four months in store. This will help you see what impact the Commercial division has on our stores and customers and how we touch their lives daily. This ranges from the carrier bags we use at one extreme to the construction of the roof on a store at the other. On returning to the Store Support Centre, you will complete various placements to experience our store development and construction programme and learn the skills involved in space planning, the retailers way of ensuring that best value is driven from our property. In addition you will be heavily involved in procuring the hundreds of products or services which are required to operate our business on a day-to-day basis through a placement in our Good Not For Resale Procurement. A further two month placement in Retail will enable you to complete a Commercial-focused project, to enable you to understand the impact your role has on our colleagues, and customers.

What are we looking for?
Highly motivated, organised people with a passion for retail and a desire to improve customers' shopping experience. You'll also need the potential to develop strong project management skills.

We will also require a minimum 2.1 or above ideally from a business or retail management, engineering or architecture-related degree. However, whatever your degree background our priority is your ability to deliver creative, customer focused solutions within the retail environment.

What skills will you develop?
As well as developing and honing project and time management skills you'll learn a raft of other essential business skills such as: communication, impact and influencing, negotiation, analysis, commercial awareness and technical assessment.

What are the benefits?
• £23k starting salary with excellent salary progression Discretionary annual bonus
• 22 days holiday and 10% staff discount after six months
• Broad business understanding gained from work placements
• Early responsibility to make real business decisions

Deadline for applications: 31st December