Product Content Executive

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Non Food
Closing date: 18 August 2025
Requisition ID: 400010520
As a Product Content Executive, you will lead the implementation of the business’ product content strategy across your owned categories. You will utilise all available tools and insights to define best in class product content that is on-brand, optimised for SEO and user experience and consistent in terms of style, quality and tone of voice. The Product Content Team not only publish all new products to site with best-in-class content and on-time delivery, but are also instrumental to removing customer pain-points by creating a better user experience to allow customers to discover, find and decide on the right product for them. You will use robust stakeholder management and influencing skills to implement the category content strategy, working effectively and collaboratively with the wider business and group functions.
What you need to do
- Support the Product Content Lead in building a 6-12-month category content plan focused on supporting business priorities and initiatives, customer trends and promotional activity.
- Use insight and analysis to suggest new initiatives and content experiences, which focus on increased sales, conversion, customer engagement, digital participation and reducing customer returns and Q&A.
- Drive successful commercial results across all our digital channels (UK/mComm/Apps) through ownership of successful implementation of category content plans, ensuring product content is executed in line with content strategy guidelines to optimise the customer experience.
- Measure success of content strategy implementation on both the business and the customer to build into future category content plans.
- Brief, support and work with our offshore Digital Operation Centre (DOC) to deliver content uplift projects, including supporting offshore queries and escalations, and supplier engagement where necessary.
- Interaction with Sainsbury’s in-house studio, Zest, to brief and execute imagery uplift projects.
- Own application of a continuous improvement programme across all focus categories, ensuring our PDPs, filtering/refinement and navigation is optimal for the category. Support and evolve PDP content and experience to suit business strategy.
- Build collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across Digital, Offshore Digital Operations Centre, SEO, Product, Commercial, Marketing and Analytics functions.
- Advocate natural search optimisation for ranges to ensure best ways of working are incorporated into content creation.
- Understand and adhere to legal compliance requirements for focus categories. Support the Product Content Lead on implementation of new compliance messaging and ensure robust processes to maintain post launch.
- Own supplier relationships where required.
What you need to know and show
- Passionate and enthusiastic about eCommerce and driving customer experience; you are likely to have highly relevant experience within an online retail environment.
- A strong understanding of Product content, SEO and experience creating and delivering content plans.
- Experienced in delivery of projects requiring cross functional buy-in of stakeholders.
- Strong planning and organisational skills.
- Experience of indirectly managing a network of stakeholders & suppliers.
- Presentational skills both in terms of public speaking and in the promotion and presentation of self.
- Strong communication skills, able to adapt style to influence stakeholders.
- Able to challenge effectively at all levels to drive positive change.
- Analytical mind-set and the ability to look past the “now”.
- Able to multi-task, remaining organised and collected when faced with multiple priorities.
- An astute and critical eye for syntax.
- Full competency with current Microsoft Operating systems and Office applications.
- A thirst for learning and acts upon a desire to achieve potential.
What decisions I can make including budget
- Job holder has no direct responsibilities for budgets. However, budget may need to be sought by other teams to facilitate some projects.
- Job holder needs to be aware of financial impacts of decisions and to ensure risks and opportunities are mitigated / flagged to budget holder.
Directly or indirectly manages
N/A
Support we will provide
- Technology and access to all necessary tools for you and your team along with flexible working arrangements in order to be most effective.
- Sainsbury’s Learning & Development resources along with line management support.
- Opportunity to participate in relevant industry events in order to remain current and up-to-date with industry dynamics and developments.
- Opportunity for access with both direct and indirect suppliers as required.
Please note: This role profile is aimed at describing the core output that should be achieved in this role. It is not intended to include specific tasks, temporary activities or projects to recognise flexibility in a changing context.
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 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 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).