Digital Asset & Workflow Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 31 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400054738
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.
London location - 2 days onsite
12-month FTC
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Digital Asset & Workflow Manager means stepping into a pivotal role where you will have the opportunity to shape and optimise our Digital Asset Management platform and enhance workflow efficiencies within Adobe Workfront. As part of a dynamic and collaborative team, you will be instrumental in ensuring our digital assets are well-structured, accessible, and governed, while driving continuous improvement and innovation across teams. With a focus on system ownership, process optimisation, and cross-functional collaboration, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact and contribute to the success of a leading organisation in the retail industry.
What you'll do
As the Digital Asset & Workflow Manager at Sainsbury's, you will be responsible for owning and optimising the Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform, ensuring that digital assets are well-structured, governed, and accessible. You will develop and maintain metadata standards, taxonomy frameworks, and version control processes while establishing asset governance policies and user access controls. Additionally, you will act as a subject matter expert for DAM best practises, providing training and guidance to stakeholders, and continuously monitor system usage to recommend improvements. Furthermore, you will serve as the system champion and administrator for Adobe Workfront, configuring workflows, templates, and reporting tools to support consistent ways of working across teams and identifying opportunities to streamline processes and enhance efficiency. Your role will also involve supporting Resource Managers by maintaining accurate project and allocation data within Adobe Workfront, providing reporting on team capacity and utilisation, and documenting processes and resource tracking frameworks to ensure workload visibility and operational excellence.
Who you are
As a Digital Asset & Workflow Manager at Sainsbury's, you are a highly organised and detail-oriented professional with a strong background in managing Digital Asset Management systems and Adobe Workfront. Your expertise in metadata, taxonomy design, and digital governance, coupled with your experience in system administration and configuration, enables you to optimise processes, enhance workflow efficiency, and ensure the effective governance and accessibility of digital assets. With your process-driven mindset, strong communication skills, and ability to collaborate cross-functionally, you play a pivotal role in supporting teams to work more effectively and efficiently while maintaining visibility of workload capacity and resource allocation.
Essential criteria
Experience using and administering Adobe Workfront, including configuring workflows, templates, dashboards and reporting tools.
Experience owning and implementing a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, ensuring assets are structured, searchable and governed effectively.
Experience in and a strong understanding of metadata, taxonomy design, naming conventions, version control and wider digital governance.
Experience managing asset governance policies and user access controls, improving adoption and usability.
Experience generating reporting insights from systems data to support visibility of capacity, utilisation and workflow adoption within a creative agency.
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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: 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).
