Location
London - 2 days onsite

Hours
Fixed Term Contract until end of February 2027

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Joining the creative team at Sainsbury's Zest in-house agency offers a unique opportunity to work on innovative and impactful projects for renowned brands such as Argos, Habitat, Sainsbury's, and Tu. As a Midweight Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping creative concepts and solutions that resonate with customers, collaborating with diverse teams and external partners. This role focuses on design excellence, creative leadership, and continuous growth, providing a dynamic environment where your talents can flourish. You will contribute to the success of our brands while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.

As the Midweight Designer, you will conceptualise, shape, and deliver innovative design concepts across multiple channels including in-store POS and digital design. Your responsibilities include developing design briefs from ideation to execution, ensuring strategic alignment with customer insights, and maintaining exceptional craftsmanship and brand consistency. You will manage multiple projects, stay current with design trends, foster partnerships, and contribute to a creative culture that drives results and elevates the creative output of Zest.

Sainsbury’s is one of the UK’s largest supermarkets with a significant retail website, offering marketing at scale across Brand Planning, Brand Communications and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, and Insights. Working here means moving fast, collaborating with incredible brand partners and top agencies, and leveraging data and insight to understand customers better than most. If you are passionate about learning, growing, and experiencing new teams, this is the place for you.

Experience
Proven experience as a Midweight Designer delivering creative work from concept through to final execution. A portfolio showcasing high-quality, insight-led creative across multiple channels. Experience working across integrated campaigns including digital, social, in-store POS, and print. Demonstrable ability to interpret briefs and develop creative solutions aligned to strategic and customer insights. Experience working with established brands and applying brand guidelines consistently.

About you
You are a creative and strategic thinker with a passion for delivering innovative, insight-driven concepts across multi-channel platforms. You have a strong eye for detail and design excellence, excelling in crafting high-quality outputs that align strategically with customer insights and brand guidelines. Your collaborative nature, effective communication skills, and ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment make you an essential team member who drives creative excellence and fosters positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We value development and offer support to help you grow. While specific qualifications are not detailed, a strong portfolio and relevant experience are essential. We offer flexible working where possible and a comprehensive benefits package including colleague discounts, pension scheme, life cover, performance-related bonuses, holiday allowances, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance options, employee assistance programme, and generous parental leave policies.