Sainsbury's : Employer profile

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Sainsbury’s is a retailer with a great heritage and a clear purposeful vision for the future. As the oldest and one of the largest food businesses in the country, we strive to deliver an ever improving shopping experience for our customers. With more than 22 million shoppers every week who choose us to supply their shopping, that's a 16.6 percent market share with over 30,000 products, over 1,000 stores across the UK and more than 150,000 employees. These numbers prove that we have something special here at Sainsbury’s - a place that has become not just a great place to shop for our customers, but also a business that's a great place to work too. We are an established brand, based around trust, quality and customer loyalty which has created the perfect platform from which to explore new product ranges, enter new markets and develop our online offering.

Sainsbury's has always led the retail field. But the more we extend our brand into new areas, the stronger the bonds with our customers need to be. To achieve this, we will need 2020 leaders: individuals with outstanding intellect, business acumen and ambition. Not simply graduates who want to grow with us, but natural pacesetters who expect, demand and deserve senior responsibility very early in their careers. We realise that this type of person is rare; but we offer the rewards, the challenges and the opportunities to attract them.

The Sainsbury’s 2020 Leaders Programme is specifically designed to accelerate a small group of high calibre graduates through to the top of the organisation, giving them the necessary skills to influence and deliver in any business area. You can join the 2020 Leaders Programme on one of the three streams Commercial, People and Operations, depending on what interests you and how you see your career developing in the future.