Studio Production Executive
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Argos - Bradwell and Home, Milton Keynes, MK13 9HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 22 July 2025
Requisition ID: 400007265
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.
Studio Production Executive
Milton Keynes location - 8 month FTC - onsite
Why join us
Joining our team at Sainsbury's Studio within the Centre of Creative Excellence means being part of a vibrant and dynamic environment where your contributions will have a direct impact on the successful delivery of high-quality content. As a Studio Production Executive, you will play a crucial role in planning and managing complex photoshoots, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure seamless execution and exceptional results. We value dedication, creativity, and proactive problem-solving, providing the opportunity to think outside the box and make a difference in a fast-paced and delivery-focused setting. With our supportive leadership team and access to continuous learning and development opportunities, joining us means being part of a collaborative and innovative team, working towards shared goals while embracing our core values.
What you'll do
As a Studio Production Executive within the Marketing / Brand Communications & Creative / Studio division, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful delivery of content projects and shoots. Your responsibilities will include production planning, where you will arrange studio space, models, and location houses, as well as scheduling content into the studios. You will manage the production schedule throughout each shoot, adhering to studio processes, achieving production KPIs, and ensuring budgets are followed. Additionally, you will ensure the quality of all produced content, coordinating the sourcing of assets and products required for each project, and maintaining effective communication with stakeholders. Collaboration, budget tracking, asset management, and building strong relationships within the Studio and Centre of Creative Excellence will be essential to excelling in this role.
Who you are
As a Studio Production Executive, you are an integral part of the Studio within the Centre of Creative Excellence. You thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, managing complex photoshoots and ensuring the successful delivery of content projects. Your exceptional communication and influencing skills, combined with your ability to think on your feet and problem-solve, enable you to effectively coordinate studio resources, schedule shoots, and make critical decisions in real-time to meet tight timelines. Your dedication to delivering beyond expectations, attention to detail, and strong organisational skills contribute to the on-time, in full, and within budget delivery of high-quality content that exceeds client expectations. Your collaborative approach and ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders make you a valuable asset to the Studio team.
Essential criteria:
Budget tracking: experience in tracking & a demonstrated understanding of all costs associated with a shoot.
Content Excellence: Experience in managing shoot/projects on production briefs.
Production planning: Experience in planning complex photoshoots by arranging studio space, models, location houses and resource, along with ensuring that content is scheduled into the studios via the scheduling team.
Product sourcing: Experience in the coordination of all assets/ products required for project/ shoot .
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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: Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
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).
