Local Marketing & Digital Executive
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 06 August 2025
Requisition ID: 400008820
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.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Local Marketing & Digital Executive offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team driving growth and innovation in retail. With ambitious plans for new store openings and a focus on digital adoption, you will play a pivotal role in developing and executing local media plans to engage customers and achieve commercial targets. Working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and agencies, you will have the chance to shape creative campaigns, manage budgets effectively, and contribute to the seamless customer journey across multiple brands. Embrace this new role to broaden your skills, build strong relationships, and make a tangible impact in a fast-paced and rewarding environment.
What you'll do
As a Local Marketing & Digital Executive at Sainsbury's, you will play a pivotal role in developing and driving a local media plan to support the opening of 18 new supermarkets within the next 12 months, with a substantial media budget of approximately £700K. You will collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including internal creative and media agencies, to execute and optimise the local media plan, ensuring it aligns with both customer engagement and commercial targets. Additionally, you will be responsible for managing digital content planning and execution, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of content aligned with the digital content strategy. Your role will involve engaging with stakeholders to plan and create effective digital content to support customer engagement, while also managing the content planning process, documentation, and scheduling through the content management system.
Who you are
As a Local Marketing & Digital Executive at Sainsbury's, you are a dynamic and results-driven professional with a strong background in campaign management and a keen focus on driving regional media activations and digital content strategies. Your passion for retail, combined with your ability to quickly build relationships and collaborate effectively with stakeholders, enables you to develop and execute robust local media plans that align with both customer and commercial objectives. With a detail-oriented and cost-conscious approach, you excel in managing budgets, measuring ROI, and optimising content delivery to enhance the customer experience and drive business success in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
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).
