Why join us
This is your opportunity to step into a high-impact employer brand role at real scale. As our Employer Brand & Attraction Lead,you'lljoin an established Centre ofExpertisewithin our People team-a team that has spent the last 15 months building strong foundations and is now focused on scaling impact, maturity, and consistency across the business.
Everything we do is rooted in understanding and serving our customers better, guided by our purpose to makegood foodjoyful,accessibleand affordable for everyone. In this role,you'llhelp shape how we attract talent who share that commitment to customer closeness and delivering experiences that truly matter.Your work will be seen, felt, and measured-whether shaping attraction strategies for Retail & Logistics talent or Professional & Tech specialists. This is a role with real ownership: trusted as a subject-matter expert, empowered to influence strategy, challenge thinking, and elevate how our employer brand shows up in the market for one of the UK's biggest retailers.
Whatyou'lldo
Acting as a central player in shaping and activating our employer brand,you'lltranslate strategy into recruitment marketing activity that genuinely supports business demand. Responsibility includes leading attraction for either Professional & Tech roles or Retail & Logistics hiring-owning campaigns from brief through to delivery and optimisation.
Collaboration is key. Working closely with the Employer Brand & Attraction Manager and recruitment teams,you'llprovideday-to-day guidance across LinkedIn strategy, paid media, and attraction tools-helping teamstomake informed decisions that deliver high-quality, diverse candidate pipelines while balancing pace, quality, and inclusion.
Campaign delivery sits at the heart of this role, combining insight, creativity, and channelexpertiseto reach the right audiences.You'lluse data and performance insight to understandwhat'sworking, where improvements can be made, and how recruitment marketing investment can be better targeted to maximise impact and return.
As our employer value proposition takes shape, this is an exciting phase of building and activating our employer brand.You'llhelp translate the EVP into real, tangible experiences for candidates and colleagues,bringing it to life consistently and credibly across all touchpoints. With oversight of content across careers websites and social channels, there's real opportunity to strengthen our presence and explore innovative ways to connect with talent.
Strong relationships with external partners and suppliers underpin this work, ensuring attraction approachesremaineffective, inclusive, and forward-looking-supporting both immediate hiring needs and longer-term employer brand growth.
What'sessential?
* Experience inor a solid understanding ofemployer brand and recruitment marketing,able to translate strategy and problem statementsinto effective attraction activity
* Proven experience leading end-to-end recruitment marketing campaigns, from brief through to delivery and optimisation
* Confidence partnering withinternal stakeholders and external partners, providing guidance on channels, paid media and attraction tools
* Strong understanding ofsocial media, especiallyLinkedInanddigital attraction channels, including paid media
* Ability to use data and performance insight to evaluate impact, improve performance and guide investment decisions
* Experiencetranslatingan employer value propositionintocompellingmultiple touchpoints and channels
* Strong relationship-building skills,withexperience working with external partners and suppliers
Pleasenote:This is a 12-month FTC role.
Who you are
You have a strong understanding of employer brand and recruitment marketing, with experience translating employer value propositions into effective attraction activity. Retail is fast-paced and dynamic, soyou'recomfortable working autonomously and at speed-taking ownership from idea through to execution.
You bring a thoughtful, data-led approach to decision-making, using insight to improve performance anddemonstrateimpact. Relationship-building comes naturally, and your clear, confident communication enables effective collaboration and influence across teams, stakeholder groups, and external partners.
A genuine commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion informs how you approach employer brand and attraction, ensuring outcomes maximise both impact and return on investment.You'repassionate about creating experiences that put customers at the heart of everything, and you modelourvalued behavioursin the everyday -Own it by taking responsibility,Makeit better by driving improvements, andBehuman by showing care and respect.
You actwith integrity, workinclusively, and staycurious,while inspiring others to do the same.Naturally inquisitive, you stay close to emerging trends, tools, and ideas - applying learning pragmatically to continually evolve how we attract and connect with talent.
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).