Why join us
Joining the Zest team at Sainsbury's means embarking on an exciting journey within our vibrant in-house creative agency, where creativity and collaboration thrive. As a midweight integrated Creative, you will have the opportunity to unleash your creative potential and contribute to developing compelling campaigns across renowned brands like Sainsburys, Argos, Habitat, Tu, and Nectar. With a focus on crafting social-first campaigns and collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll be part of a newly formed team that values curiosity, innovation, and continuous learning. By joining us, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping impactful creative solutions, building strong relationships, and growing both personally and professionally in a supportive and dynamic environment.
What you'll do
As a Midweight Integrated Creative at Zest, you will be responsible for developing compelling and effective creative campaigns across the Sainsburys, Argos, Habitat, Tu, and Nectar brands. Working closely with cross-functional teams and external agency partners, you will ideate campaigns for various media channels, with a particular emphasis on crafting social-first campaigns. With a focus on collaboration, innovation, and adaptability, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality and impactful creative work that aligns with marketing objectives, brand identity, and channel best practises, contributing to the creative culture at Zest and fostering strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
Who you are
You are a passionate and detail-oriented individual with a strong background in crafting compelling and effective creative campaigns across multiple brands. With a keen eye for design detail and a deep passion for creative excellence, you thrive in a fast-paced retail environment, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to concept and deliver top-quality campaigns that drive impactful results. Your ability to adapt to feedback, find innovative solutions, and maintain high standards while embracing new ways of working and staying informed about industry trends sets you apart as a valuable creative asset at Zest.
Essential criteria
Demonstrable experience developing and delivering integrated creative campaigns across multiple channels.
Proven ability to create social-first concepts and content that perform effectively across platforms.
A portfolio showcasing high-quality creative work across brands or campaigns.
Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external agency partners.
Experience translating briefs into clear, compelling creative ideas.
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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 retail websites. So marketing here happens at scale. We move faster than you might expect too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360 and Insights. With more people shopping with us every week, there are more interactions, more moments to connect. And thanks to data and insight, we understand our customers in a way few others can. We work alongside incredible brand partners and some of the best agencies in the industry. So if you’re passionate about learning, growing and experiencing 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 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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).