Why join us
Joining the Digital Marketing team at Sainsbury's offers a unique opportunity to be part of a fast-paced and innovative environment, driving the growth and continuous improvement of industry-leading digital marketing campaigns across various platforms. As a Digital Marketing Associate, you will have the chance to work closely with a talented team to create engaging and impactful campaigns that not only drive sales but also enhance brand visibility. With a strong focus on learning and development, a supportive culture, and ample resources, you will be empowered to make a tangible impact in the digital marketing space while enjoying a flexible work schedule and attractive benefits.
What you'll do
As the Digital Marketing Associate at Sainsbury's, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the creation and execution of engaging Display & Paid Social campaigns that drive sales and enhance brand visibility within the Argos & Habitat Digital Team. Your responsibilities will include project managing the delivery of campaigns, collaborating with internal stakeholders and external agencies, optimising media campaigns to deliver commercial impact, and leveraging data-driven insights to continuously evolve the marketing strategy. Working closely with the Display & Social Media Lead, you will manage budgets, analyse campaign performance, and foster relationships with key platforms and partners to drive innovation and achieve marketing objectives.Use dynamic creative platform Smartly to build display and social assets from approved templates for campaigns and always on product ads. Your proactive approach, attention to detail, and analytical mindset will be essential in ensuring the success of digital campaigns while contributing to the growth and performance of the team.
Who you are
As a Digital Marketing Associate at Sainsbury's, you are a passionate and detail-oriented professional with a strong background in social media platforms, digital display, and performance marketing. Your analytical skills and ability to manipulate data, combined with your entrepreneurial mindset and proactive attitude, enable you to drive continuous optimisation and deliver campaigns at pace and with accuracy. With a customer-centric approach and a desire to become a channel expert, you thrive in collaborative environments and are always willing to undertake continuous development to stay at the forefront of the fast-evolving digital marketing landscape.
Essential Criteria
1. Knowledge and practical experience in a range of social media platforms and digital display, with an understanding of performance marketing and ecommerce principles
2. Highly organised, able to manage multiple priorities and projects, and comfortable working at pace to deliver campaigns on time and to budget
3. Strong analytical skills, including intermediate Excel (pivot tables, lookups), and the ability to use data and insight to optimise campaigns and drive commercial impact
4. Collaborative, proactive, and passionate about digital marketing, with a customer-centric approach and willingness to continuously learn in a fast-moving environment.
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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us.
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 5% 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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.