Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's Zest team as a Food Economist means becoming part of a dynamic and creative environment where your passion for food styling and presentation can flourish. With the opportunity to collaborate with a talented team of creatives, photographers, and stylists, you'll play a key role in shaping the visual identity of Sainsbury's food content, creating captivating imagery that showcases the quality and appeal of our products across various platforms. At Zest, you'll have access to state-of-the-art production studios, resources, and a supportive team that values creativity, collaboration, and continuous growth, making it an exciting and rewarding place to further develop your skills and expertise in the realm of food styling and photography.
What you'll do
As a Food Economist at Zest, the in-house creative agency of Sainsbury's, you will be instrumental in creating visually stunning and authentic food content that showcases the quality and appeal of Sainsbury's products across various channels. Your role will involve collaborating with the creative team to develop the look and feel of food content, preparing and styling a wide variety of food products for photo shoots, and ensuring that every dish is presented to the highest standards while maintaining the integrity of Sainsbury's brand. Additionally, you will stay up-to-date with food trends, provide on-set expertise, and contribute creative input to concept development, all while working in a fast-paced environment that values teamwork, innovation, and continuous growth.
Who you are
As a Food Economist at Zest, you are a highly skilled and creative professional with a passion for culinary arts and visual storytelling. Your expertise in food styling, preparation, and presentation, combined with your keen eye for detail and ability to work under pressure, allows you to elevate Sainsbury's food visuals to be enticing, authentic, and aligned with brand standards. Collaborative, organised, and trend-savvy, you thrive in a fast-paced environment and excel in translating creative concepts into captivating food imagery that resonates with diverse audiences.
Qualifications
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 as 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).
Responsibilities
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.
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