Concept Graphic Designer
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 05 June 2026
Requisition ID: 400062046
Why join us
Join our team at Sainsbury's as a Concept Graphic Designer and be part of shaping the future of retail through creative communication ideas and innovative store formats. With the opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects across both Food and Non-food categories, you will play a vital role in improving the shopping experience for our customers. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to demonstrate your expertise in graphic design, managing agencies and suppliers, and delivering projects on time and within budget. With a focus on driving innovation and quality based on data-informed insights, you will have the support and resources needed to bring your creative vision to life. Join us and be part of a company that values work-life balance, provides ongoing training, and offers endless opportunities for growth and development.
What you'll do
Your primary responsibility will be the development of creative communication ideas for New Retail Concepts and Formats. This will involve working on a wide range of projects across both Food and Non-food categories, where you will be involved in all aspects of Graphic Design, from Insight and Brief creation to final Design Concepts. Your expertise and experience will enable you to develop permanent Brand Communications that enhance the shopping experience for our customers in our stores. Additionally, you will play a crucial role in articulating our Brand in-store, providing clear principles and guidelines for its delivery through internal teams. You will also be responsible for managing external design agencies, specialists, and suppliers to ensure the delivery of creative solutions that set the future direction of our Brand in-store. With your skills and creativity, you will create compelling design briefs, manage and direct agencies and suppliers throughout the design process, and champion innovation based on data-informed insight and research. You will manage a wide range of projects, communicate updates to stakeholders, deliver communication principles and brand assets, provide design support throughout the design delivery process, manage budgets, and identify opportunities for new technologies and ways of working. Overall, your role will be instrumental in shaping the visual identity and brand experience within our stores.
Who you are
You are a highly skilled and creative professional with extensive knowledge of retail design trends and best practices. With experience both on the agency and client side, you have a proven track record of successfully delivering retail environments, influencing clients and management teams, and managing projects within timelines and budgets. Your proficiency in design software, production methods, and processes allows you to develop compelling design briefs, provide design support throughout the delivery process, and communicate clear principles and guidelines for the brand experience. Your understanding of customer needs and ability to champion innovation and quality based on data-informed insight and research ensure that the future direction of our brand in-store is aligned with our brand standards. In this role, you will collaborate with agencies, suppliers, and internal teams to create visually impactful and customer-centric designs that enhance the overall shopping experience for our customers.
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).
