Digital Marketing Manager - Tech in City of London

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as a Marketing Technology Manager means being part of a forward-thinking organisation that values innovation and customer-centric communication. You'll have the opportunity to shape and deliver exceptional marketing strategies across inbound and outbound channels, leveraging cutting-edge technology and industry-leading tools. With access to resources, support from internal teams, agencies, and key platforms, you'll play a pivotal role in driving impactful business outcomes and becoming a digital leader in the marketing landscape. Embrace the fast-paced environment, collaborate with diverse stakeholders, and make a tangible impact by delivering projects that resonate with millions of customers every day.

What you'll do

As the Marketing Technology Manager at Sainsbury's, you will play a pivotal role in driving the technical marketing capabilities for the Sainsbury's Group across inbound and outbound channels. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Owning and managing digital marketing tools throughout the stack.
• Supporting the delivery of end-to-end digital marketing capability.
• Developing functional capabilities by leveraging existing tools and conducting assessments for capability gaps.
• Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to provide training and development on tools.
• Managing relationships with suppliers and collaborating with agencies to deliver complex communications programmes through an automated, data-driven delivery pipeline.

Building strong relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, simplifying complex information for effective communication, and focusing on measurable outcomes will be key to your success in this role.

Who you are

As a Marketing Technology Manager at Sainsbury's, you are a seasoned professional with extensive experience in running complex MarTech solutions to drive successful business outcomes for large organisations. With a strong technical background and expertise in leveraging data and analytics technologies, you excel in developing and implementing customer-centric marketing capabilities. Your high level of data literacy, industry awareness, and strategic thinking enable you to lead cross‑functional teams, influence stakeholders, and drive innovative digital marketing strategies in alignment with evolving industry trends and regulatory changes.

Essential Criteria

• Proven experience in managing complex, enterprise-scale MarTech platforms to deliver measurable business outcomes for large organisations.
• Experience of applying best-practice Marketing and Customer data foundations, including hands-on use of technologies such as Snowflake, Azure, Adobe, GCP and Tealium to build customer-centric marketing capabilities.
• Experience and a clear understanding of roadmaps and trends from Google, Meta, TikTok, and across Programmatic Display and Social channels.
• Proven ability to navigate regulatory changes shaping the marketing landscape and implement privacy-centric strategies that drive positive customer and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated understanding of how online and offline channels integrate, including experience with attribution modelling to inform future media buying decisions.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whichever 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 20% 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, interest-free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
• 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.

Responsibilities

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.