Senior Graphic Designer
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 05 June 2025
Requisition ID: 30665160
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.
Senior Graphic Designer - 6 month FTC
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's, as a Senior Graphic Designer means becoming part of a dynamic and visionary team. You will have the opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of brands, including Sainsbury's, Argos, Tu, Habitat, Nectar, and Own Brands / New Business. We value creativity and innovation, consistently delivering visually compelling designs that align with brand identities. Collaborating with talented designers and copywriters, you will have the freedom to implement your design expertise across various integrated channels, from print to digital projects. With a focus on continuous learning and development, you will stay informed about industry trends and have the chance to mentor and support a talented team of designers. Join us to contribute to our design vision, make a real impact, and see your work reach millions of customers across the UK.
What you'll do
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will play a pivotal role in creating designs that align with the brand identities of several of our portfolio brands, including Sainsbury's, Argos, Tu, Habitat, Nectar, and Own Brands / New Business. Collaborating with a team of designers and copywriters, you will implement a cohesive visual language across various channels, encompassing brand, print, and digital projects. In this fast-paced retail environment, you will handle a high volume of diverse projects, requiring your ability to navigate ambiguity and provide creative solutions to design challenges. Staying updated on industry trends and mentoring and supporting the wider team of talented designers will contribute to maintaining our design vision and the quality of our output. Throughout, you will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, uphold brand consistency, meet project deadlines, and foster an innovative and collaborative environment to deliver visually compelling and effective design work.
Who you are
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you are a highly skilled and experienced design professional with a keen eye for crafting visually compelling and effective designs that align with brand identities across multiple prestigious brands. Your extensive knowledge of communication design and expertise in various platforms, including brand, print, and digital, enables you to implement visual language seamlessly and consistently. In this fast-paced retail environment, your ability to thrive in ambiguity and find innovative solutions to design problems is central to your success.
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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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 additional 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, pay 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).
