Content Creator in London

12‑month FTC London location – 2 days onsite

Why join us

Joining Zest, Sainsbury's in‑house creative agency, offers the opportunity to be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment where you can shape engaging, platform‑native social content for a leading UK food brand. Working closely with diverse teams, including the Zest social and Sainsbury's Digital Marketing teams, you'll have the chance to bring recipes, trends, and innovative ideas to life quickly and effectively. Embrace a culture that values creativity, curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning, providing you with the resources and support needed to develop your craft and deliver high‑quality work that resonates with audiences and enhances brand visibility.

What you’ll do

As a Content Creator at Zest within Sainsbury's in‑house creative agency, you will develop disruptive, engaging, and platform‑native social content that resonates with the target audience and enhances brand visibility across key channels, primarily focusing on Instagram and TikTok. Your role will involve attending briefings, identifying creative opportunities, creating storyboards and shot lists, and collaborating closely with internal teams to bring content ideas to life quickly and effectively. You will also shoot and edit high‑quality social‑first content on iPhone, ensuring that the content aligns with Sainsbury's tone of voice, fits each platform, and resonates with the audience, while staying informed about cultural, social, and tech trends to maximize reach and impact.

Who you are

As a Content Creator at Zest, you are a dynamic and creative individual with a strong passion for developing engaging and platform‑native social content that resonates with audiences and enhances brand visibility, particularly on Instagram and TikTok. Your hands‑on experience in shooting and editing lo‑fi content on iPhone, coupled with your ability to respond quickly to briefs and trends, enables you to bring ideas to life effectively and efficiently. Collaborative, proactive, and curious by nature, you thrive in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment, contributing fresh and innovative content ideas that align with brand strategies and drive audience engagement.

Essential criteria

• Proven experience creating engaging short‑form social content across major platforms, particularly Instagram and TikTok.
• A portfolio demonstrating content creation, iPhone shooting, lo‑fi capture and short‑form editing.
• Experience developing content ideas, storyboards, shot lists, reference packs and simple treatment documents.
• Experience using iPhone, CapCut and other social editing tools to create polished, platform‑native content.

Benefits

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed 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 offer you an amazing range of benefits. Starting off, you’ll get a 10% colleague discount at Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks, which increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We have a pensions scheme, life cover, a performance‑related bonus of up to 10% of salary, and an annual holiday allowance, with the option to buy additional holiday. Other benefits include season ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance, access to discounts from hundreds of retailers, and an employee assistance programme. We also offer up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.