Job Description

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 be tasked with developing 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. Additionally, you will 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. Your role will also involve staying informed about cultural, social, and tech trends to apply them to creative ideation and maximise 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, where you contribute 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.

#LI-SM1

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 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 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 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 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 additional 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, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well 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.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).