Tu Design Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Non Food
Closing date: 04 April 2026
Requisition ID: 400054787
*Please upload a portfolio of your work alongside your application for this role
This is an exciting opportunity to shape the digital creative direction of Tu Clothing and lead the design vision across our fast‑growing online channels. You’ll set the creative North Star, elevate our brand presence, and drive inspiring, seamless shopping experiences across web and mobile – working closely with talented onshore designers and our Digital Operations Centre in Mumbai. If you’re a digital design leader with strong retail instincts, a passion for storytelling, and experience in CMS‑led content delivery, this is your chance to make a big impact on one of the UK’s most loved retail brands.
What you’ll do
- Lead the design vision for Tu Clothing’s digital experience, ensuring all content delivers an engaging, on‑brand customer journey that drives commercial performance.
- Oversee the creation and execution of digital assets, campaign content and inspirational page layouts, ensuring consistency across web and mobile.
- Partner with Brand Marketing, Studio, Digital Trading, Content and Planning teams to translate brand guidelines into compelling digital executions.
- Work closely with the Digital Operations Centre in Mumbai — guiding Designers and Implementation Specialists, improving processes, and raising overall capability.
- Influence the CMS roadmap (Magnolia), helping Product teams prioritise enhancements that improve storytelling, seasonal refreshes and customer experience.
- Establish strong ways of working with UX, CX, QA, Testing, and wider Commercial teams to ensure usability, accessibility and design quality are consistently upheld.
- Act as a senior design leader across key digital projects — delivering briefs, campaign decks, style guides, pattern libraries and development documentation.
- Build, coach and develop a high‑performing team, ensuring robust succession, a positive culture, and insight‑driven continuous improvement across Digital Design & Implementation.
What you need to know and show
- Strong experience in digital design leadership within a retail or eCommerce environment (essential).
- Proven track record delivering high‑quality digital assets, creative briefs, campaign decks, design systems and pattern libraries (essential).
- Experience using a Content Management System — ideally Magnolia (essential).
- Good understanding of tools such as Adobe Analytics, Glassbox or similar to inform insight‑driven design decisions (desirable but highly beneficial).
- Ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders across Digital, Commercial, Marketing, Product and UX teams.
- Strong understanding of fashion, digital trends and customer digital behaviour, with the ability to create content that feels current, compelling and commercial.
- Confident participating in CMS/UI/technical discussions (e.g., test environments, CMS workflows, search tools) and driving development opportunities.
- A strong people leader — able to inspire teams, manage multiple stakeholders, anticipate risks, and deliver at pace in a dynamic digital environment.
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 20% 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, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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).
