Midweight Designer

Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA

Contract type:
Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area:
Marketing
Closing date: 15 July 2026

Requisition :

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  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.

Midweight Designer

London location - 2 days onsite

12 - month FTC

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.

Proven experience as a Midweight Designer delivering creative work from concept through to final execution.

Experience working across integrated campaigns (e.g. digital, social, in-store POS, print).

Demonstrable experience interpreting briefs and develop creative solutions aligned to strategic and customer insights.

Experience working with established brands and applying brand guidelines consistently.

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…