Organic Social Media Associate
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 22 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400048516
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.
In a nutshell
This role will support the Sainsbury’s Social Media Lead to manage our organic social media channels.
What you need to do
- Publish organic, campaign, always on and reactive communications, in line with the brand strategy and customer plan.
- Own the social media calendar and write engaging captions for Instagram, TikTok and Meta using our tone of voice.
- Work with the Social Media Lead to create our organic social media strategy.
- Work with our in-house agency Zest to facilitate creating organic social content.
- Maintain the brand’s social presence across platforms, ensuring profile pages, header images, pinned posts etc are up to date.
- Attend campaign and colleague content social media shoots.
- Tracking, measurement, competitor activity and reporting of social activity on a weekly and monthly basis.
- Ensure the brand acts in line with our social media governance guidelines, maintaining password security and access to accounts.
- Experience using social media reporting and social listening platforms, like Sprout Social, is a plus.
What you need to know and show
- Know
- A deep understanding of social and have experience in creating successful content across both Instagram, Meta and Tik Tok.
- Excellent project and cross-functional stakeholder management skills, ideally proven across brands/functions.
- Experience of working with digital media, creative or influencer agencies.
- Knowledge of social media tools and platforms (e.g. Sprout).
- Experience in food or retail (desirable)
- Show
- Your love for social! You’re on top of all the latest trends and love thinking about ideas for content.
- Experience in using editing software e.g. Photoshop/Canva/Capcut to produce and edit content.
- Self-motivated problem solver who can operate in a fast-paced environment being comfortable under pressure.
- Strong organisational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects.
What decisions I can make including budget
- How content is planned and delivered across social channels.
- How KPIs, metrics and social listening should be responded to.
Support we will provide
- Support from multiple agencies, range of social media management platforms.
- Support from wider Digital Marketing team, including paid social and influencer marketing.
- Support from the campaign team.
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).
