Content Creator

About the Role

This opportunity sits within Zest, Sainsbury’s in-house creative studio, supporting a major UK retailer known for operating at scale across supermarket and digital channels. The position is a 12-month fixed-term contract based in London, with two days required onsite. You’ll be working in a fast-moving marketing environment where social content, creative experimentation, and collaboration across brand, digital, and insight teams are central to the work.

Why This Role Could Be a Great Fit

You’ll join a collaborative and energetic team where fresh ideas are encouraged and where content is built quickly for social-first channels. The role offers the chance to shape platform-native creative for a well-known food brand, turning recipes, trends, and timely ideas into content that feels native to Instagram and TikTok. The environment values curiosity, craft, and continuous development, with support to help you grow your skills while delivering work that strengthens brand presence.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Content Creator, your main focus will be producing standout social content that feels tailored to each platform and connects with the intended audience. You’ll attend briefings, spot creative angles, build storyboards and shot lists, and work closely with internal teams to turn ideas into finished assets quickly. A key part of the job is shooting and editing social-first content on an iPhone, ensuring the output reflects Sainsbury’s tone of voice and performs well across priority channels, especially Instagram and TikTok. You’ll also keep an eye on cultural, social, and technology trends and use those insights to shape concepts that are timely, relevant, and high-impact.

What the Team Is Looking For

The ideal person is a proactive, curious, and collaborative creator who enjoys working at pace and bringing ideas to life in a practical, hands-on way. You should have direct experience making short-form social content for major platforms, with a strong emphasis on Instagram and TikTok. A portfolio is expected to show your ability to capture content on iPhone, work in a lo-fi style when needed, and edit short-form videos effectively. You’ll also need experience preparing creative support materials such as reference packs, treatment documents, storyboards, and shot lists. Familiarity with iPhone shooting workflows, CapCut, and other social editing tools is important for this role.

Additional Information

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract in London with a hybrid setup that requires two days onsite.

Benefits

Employees are offered a broad range of benefits, including colleague discount, pension and life cover, a potential performance-related bonus, holiday entitlement with the option to buy extra leave, and support for commuting and everyday costs through perks such as season ticket loans, cycle to work, health cash plans, and pay advance. Additional support includes access to retail discounts, an employee assistance programme, and enhanced family leave provisions.

Colleague Discount

• 10% discount at Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU, and Habitat after four weeks.
• 15% discount at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday.
• 15% discount at Argos every payday.

Pay, Bonus and Protection

• Access to a pension scheme.
• Life cover included.
• Potential performance bonus of up to 10% of salary, subject to company performance.

Time Off and Wellbeing

• Annual holiday allowance.
• Option to purchase additional holiday.
• Employee assistance programme.

Everyday Support and Savings

• Season ticket loans.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Health cash plan.
• Pay advance option before payday.
• Access to discounts from a wide range of retailers.

Family Leave

• Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave.
• Up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Eligibility

Applicants should have the right background and hands-on capability for social content creation, including a portfolio that demonstrates relevant work. The role suits candidates who can work in London and attend the office two days per week.