Midweight Designer in London

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 like 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, while collaborating with a diverse range of teams and external partners. With a focus on design excellence, creative leadership, and continuous growth, this role provides a dynamic environment where your talents can flourish, contributing to the success of our brands and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.

As the Midweight Designer at Sainsbury's Zest in‑house creative agency, you will play a crucial role in conceptualising, shaping, and delivering innovative concepts for brands such as Argos, Habitat, Sainsbury's, and Tu. Your responsibilities will include developing design briefs from ideation to execution, ensuring strategic alignment with insights, exceptional craftsmanship, and customer‑centricity. Collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders, you will lead design projects across multiple channels, from in‑store POS to digital design, exhibiting design excellence and consistency with brand guidelines. Your role will involve managing multiple projects, staying abreast of design trends, fostering partnerships, and contributing to a creative culture that drives results and elevates the creative output of Zest.

As a Midweight Designer for Sainsbury's Zest in‑house creative agency, you are a creative and strategic thinker with a passion for delivering innovative and insight‑driven concepts across multi‑channel platforms. With a strong eye for detail and design excellence, you excel 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 member of the team, driving creative excellence and fostering positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders to elevate the creative output and achieve business objectives.

Essential criteria

• 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 (e.g. digital, social, in‑store POS, print).
• Demonstrable experience interpreting briefs and developing creative solutions aligned to strategic and customer insights.
• Experience working with established brands and applying brand guidelines consistently.

We’re all about 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 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.

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and in‑store 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.