Responsibilities

• As a Social Media Associate at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Social Media Lead in managing the organic social media channels.
• You will be responsible for creating organic social content, focusing on campaign, always-on, and recipe content, aligning with the social strategy and customer plan.
• Working closely with the Social Media Lead, you will craft epic video content and engaging captions for platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and Meta, while owning the social media calendar and assisting in the delivery of the organic social media strategy.
• Additionally, you will collaborate with Zest, our in-house agency to facilitate the creation of organic social content, attend shoots, maintain the brand's social presence across platforms and ensure compliance with social media governance guidelines.
• Your ability to track, measure, and report on social activity, along with your knowledge of social media tools and platforms, will be essential in driving the brand's social media success.

Requirements

• Experience creating and delivering social media content across Instagram, TikTok and Meta.
• Experience shooting food/recipe-based content.
• Experience using editing tools (e.g. Photoshop, Canva, CapCut).
• Experience working to a social media calendar and campaign plans.

Preferred

• Creative food lover and strategic individual with a deep understanding of social media platforms and content creation.
• Strong copywriting and content creation skills; able to stay ahead of social trends and contribute to innovative ideas.

Benefits

• 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).