Location
London, London - Hybrid working

Hours
Full Time - 12-month fixed term contract

Salary
£10,000 per month

About the Role
This is a brilliant opportunity to take the lead on two important areas of our digital marketing: Paid Search and Affiliates. You’ll have the freedom to shape our strategy, explore new opportunities and make smart decisions about where and how we invest. With a significant media budget and an experienced in-house team behind you, you’ll use data, technology, creativity and customer insight to keep improving our performance across Sainsbury’s, Nectar and Tu Clothing. The role offers plenty of variety and visibility as you collaborate with teams across Marketing, Analytics and Technology, alongside agencies, Google and affiliate partners. You will influence how we evolve our digital marketing capabilities and deliver genuine commercial impact.

What you'll do
You will set the strategic direction for Paid Search and Affiliate Marketing, ensuring our investment delivers against customer and commercial goals. You will own and manage significant budgets, using data and measurement to understand what’s working, where improvements can be made and where new opportunities lie. In Paid Search, you will help make smarter use of first-party data, automation and machine learning, while evolving incrementality testing and marketing measurement. For Affiliates, you will develop strategy and marketing plans, build strong relationships with key partners and agencies, and ensure activities drive incremental customers and sales. You will also explore how technology, platforms, creative approaches and measurement can evolve to deliver better results. People leadership is a key part of this role, as you lead and develop our in-house Paid Search and Affiliate experts, fostering an environment for growth, challenge and continuous improvement.

Why join us
We are one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest retail websites, operating at scale with fast-paced marketing across Brand Planning, Brand Communications, Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360 and Insights. With more customers shopping every week, there are more moments to connect and engage. Supported by data and insight, we understand our customers deeply and work alongside incredible brand partners and top agencies. If you are passionate about learning, growing and experiencing new teams, this is the place for you.

Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including a colleague discount of 10% (increasing to 15% at times) across Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat. We provide pension schemes, life cover, performance-related bonuses up to 20% of salary, annual holiday allowance with the option to buy additional leave, private healthcare, season ticket loans, interest-free car loans up to £10,000, cycle to work schemes, health cash plans, salary advances and access to a wide range of retail discounts. We also support wellbeing with an Employee Assistance Programme and generous parental leave policies including up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Flexible working is encouraged where possible, and development opportunities are actively supported.

Experience
- Hands-on digital marketing experience with strong Paid Search/PPC expertise is essential
- Affiliate Marketing experience is desirable
- Experience working with media or affiliate agencies to deliver targeted marketing activity
- Proven experience managing significant media budgets and making investment decisions that improve efficiency and performance
- Demonstrable experience leading and developing effective in-house media teams

About you
You are an experienced digital marketing leader with strong hands-on Paid Search/PPC expertise and knowledge or experience in Affiliate Marketing. You have a commercial mindset and are comfortable working with data to understand incrementality, profitability and customer value beyond headline performance. You confidently manage significant budgets and make informed investment decisions while also being comfortable with campaign performance details, technology and measurement. You are a natural collaborator who builds strong relationships with agencies, media and affiliate partners as well as internal teams, driving progress at pace. As a people leader, you enjoy coaching and developing others and building a team with excellent digital expertise.

Qualifications
We value experience and skills over formal qualifications. Commitment to continuous learning and development is important, alongside a passion for digital marketing and performance improvement.