Job Description

Why join us

Join our team at Sainsbury's as a Digital Marketing Associate - Display & Paid Social and immerse yourself in a dynamic, performance-driven environment where you will have the opportunity to lead high-impact digital campaigns that drive sales and elevate brand presence. As a key member of the Argos & Habitat Digital Team, you will collaborate with industry-leading platforms and agency partners to deliver best-in-class work while exploring innovative marketing strategies and leveraging data insights to continuously enhance campaign performance. With a supportive and flexible work culture, you will have the space to innovate, collaborate, and grow professionally, all while maintaining a healthy work-life balance that aligns with your personal and career aspirations.

What you'll do

As a Digital Marketing Associate for Display & Paid Social at Sainsbury's, you will be responsible for executing high-impact, data-led paid social and display campaigns that drive sales, enhance brand affinity, and propel our channels forward. You will lead the day-to-day delivery of campaigns from briefing to activation to reporting, collaborating closely with our media agency to ensure campaigns are optimised and measured effectively. Using platforms like Smartly, you will build, test, and optimise creative variations while exploring automation and AI features to enhance campaign performance. Additionally, you will track performance metrics, use data-driven insights to make informed decisions, collaborate with various teams to develop high-quality digital creative, manage campaign budgets efficiently, and support the Display & Social Media Lead in delivering a pipeline of media projects, all while maintaining a fast-paced and results-driven approach.

Who you are

As a Digital Marketing Associate specialising in Display & Paid Social for Sainsbury's Argos & Habitat team, you are a results-oriented and hands-on professional with a deep passion for digital marketing. Your experience in running paid social and display campaigns, coupled with your ability to analyse data and optimise performance, allows you to drive high-impact campaigns that elevate brand visibility, engage customers, and boost sales. Your collaborative nature, proactive mindset, and innovative approach enable you to build strong relationships across teams, voice creative ideas, and continuously seek opportunities for growth and improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Essential criteria

Proven experience delivering paid social and display campaigns end-to-end, from briefing through to activation and reporting.

Experience in performance marketing, using data and insights to optimise campaigns and drive measurable results.

Hands-on experience with campaign management platforms (e.g. Smartly or similar), including building, testing and optimising creative.

Demonstrable experience analyse performance metrics and translate data into clear, actionable improvements.

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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.

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 5% 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).

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.