Integrated Creative
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 06 May 2025
Requisition ID: 302794
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us.
Why join us
Joining our team at Zest, the in-house creative agency of Sainsbury's, offers the opportunity to work on compelling and impactful creative campaigns for renowned brands such as Sainsbury's, Argos, Habitat, Tu, and Nectar. As an Integrated Creative, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, develop innovative ideas, and craft social-first campaigns that resonate across various media channels. In a dynamic and inclusive environment, you'll have the freedom to explore new concepts, stay ahead of industry trends, and deliver top-quality work that reaches millions of customers. At Zest, curiosity drives creativity, and continuous learning is embraced, making it an inspiring place to thrive professionally and creatively.
What you'll do
You’ll be responsible for developing compelling and effective creative campaigns across the Sainsbury's, Argos, Habitat, Tu, and Nectar brands. This role requires a strong creative ideation encompassing both art direction and copywriting, with a focus on conceptualising campaigns for a variety of media channels, from CRM to Social, OOH to AV, and beyond, particularly emphasising social-first campaigns. You will collaborate closely with clients and cross-functional teams to deeply understand creative objectives, develop ideas, and execute top-quality campaigns, ensuring the work remains on-brand across multiple media touchpoints. Curiosity and creativity are equally essential in this role, as you navigate new thinking, concepts, and technologies to produce fresh and unconventional solutions to creative challenges. Staying up-to-date with industry, cultural, tech, and social trends is crucial to maintain a competitive edge and ensure the impactful relevance of the creative work produced by Zest.
Who you are
You’re a seasoned professional with a proven track record of developing compelling and effective creative campaigns across multiple brands and media channels. Your expertise in both art direction and copywriting, coupled with your ability to concept social-first ideas and collaborate with cross-functional teams, enables you to bring campaigns to life that resonate with audiences and drive impact. With a strong focus on maintaining brand consistency and staying ahead of industry trends, you embody curiosity, creativity, adaptability, and emotional intelligence, fostering an environment of innovation and excellence in creative delivery.
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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 10% 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).
