Midweight Designer, 4-month FTC in London

Joining us at Sainsbury’s Zest means being part of a vibrant and innovative in-house creative agency where your creativity and curiosity will be nurtured and celebrated. As a Midweight Designer, you will have the opportunity to shape and deliver innovative concepts for renowned brands such as Sainsbury’s, Argos, Habitat, and Tu, contributing to impactful campaigns across various channels. With a focus on design excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning, you’ll work in a fast‑paced retail environment that values creativity, craftsmanship, and customer‑centric thinking. Join our team to be part of a dynamic and supportive culture that encourages personal growth, creativity, and professional development while making a real difference in the retail industry.

As a Midweight Designer at Zest, the in‑house creative agency of Sainsbury’s, you will play a vital role in conceptualising, shaping, and delivering innovative, insight‑driven concepts for brands such as Sainsbury’s, Tu, Argos, and Habitat. Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing for various multi‑channel formats
• Managing projects from initial brief to final artwork
• Ensuring high‑quality and brand‑consistent outputs
• Collaborating closely with cross‑functional teams to develop top‑quality campaigns

You will need to demonstrate design excellence, leadership, and creative expertise, while maintaining strong relationships with internal and external partners and continuously seeking opportunities for personal and team development. Your success will be measured by the high‑quality creative work that aligns with marketing objectives, stakeholder satisfaction, and positive contribution to Zest’s creative culture and ways of working.

As a Midweight Designer for Sainsbury’s Zest creative team, you are a versatile and innovative individual with a keen eye for detail and a passion for crafting compelling and impactful creative concepts across various channels. With your experience in ideating and delivering high‑quality campaigns for retail brands, you excel in collaborating with cross‑functional teams, understanding objectives, and producing top‑tier creative solutions that resonate with customers. Your ability to navigate ambiguity, embrace creativity, and stay plugged into industry trends allows you to drive excellence in design, foster positive relationships, and contribute positively to the dynamic and evolving culture of a growing creative team.

Essential criteria:

• Proven experience as a Designer delivering high‑quality creative campaigns across multiple channels.
• An attached portfolio demonstrating concept development, design craft and execution from brief through to final artwork.
• Experience working with established consumer or retail brands and maintaining brand consistency.
• Experience developing insight‑led creative concepts that meet marketing and business objectives.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whatever 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 payday) as well as 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.