Middleweight Digital Designer

Why join us

Joining the Zest team at Sainsbury's as a Middleweight Digital Designer means being part of an innovative and creative environment where your design skills and passion for crafting visually compelling work will be valued and nurtured. With the opportunity to work across a diverse portfolio of brands and projects, you will play a pivotal role in shaping brand identities and delivering high-quality designs across various digital platforms. Collaborating with talented colleagues and inspiring the next generation of designers, you will have the chance to continuously grow and develop in a fast-paced retail setting, while contributing to the overall success and vision of Zest's design output.

What you'll do

As a Middleweight Digital Designer at Sainsbury's Zest, you will play a pivotal role in crafting designs that align with brand identities across a diverse portfolio of brands, including Sainsbury's, Argos, Tu, Habitat, Nectar, and Own Brands / New Business. Working collaboratively with a team of Designers and Copywriters, you will implement visual language across integrated channels, encompassing brand, print, and digital projects. Your responsibilities will involve translating briefs into visually compelling designs, executing design concepts across various digital platforms with a focus on dynamic and animated creative output, and aligning visual designs with the overall creative direction of projects. Additionally, you will stay abreast of design trends, mentor and support talented designers, and contribute to maintaining Zest's design vision and quality output.

Who you are

As a Middleweight Digital Designer for Sainsbury's Zest in-house creative agency, you are a talented and passionate professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality design work across various digital platforms. With a deep understanding of communication design and a keen eye for detail, you excel in translating briefs into visually compelling designs that align with brand identities. Your ability to stay updated on design trends, mentor junior team members, and collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders showcases your commitment to driving innovation and maintaining design excellence within a fast-paced retail environment.

Essential criteria

Proven experience working as a Digital Designer within a creative, in‑house or agency environment 

Demonstrable experience delivering high‑quality digital design across multiple platforms and channels 

A portfolio showcasing digital work, aligned to brand guidelines and creative direction 

Experience in communication design, layout, typography and visual hierarchy 

Experience translating creative briefs into effective design solutions, from concept through to delivery 

Experience in design work across integrated campaigns, including digital, brand and print where required

 

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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 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 save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's 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, salary 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).