Digital Marketing Associate – Display and Paid Social

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.

Digital Marketing Associate – Display and Paid Social
London location
Hybrid
Role to commence as of March 2nd 2026
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Digital Marketing Associate offers the exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic and innovative team at the forefront of digital marketing. Working within our Display & Social media team, you will play a key role in creating engaging campaigns that drive sales and build brand awareness across various digital platforms. With a strong focus on continuous learning and development, you will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and agency partners to deliver impactful campaigns, manage budgets effectively, and drive commercial success. As part of our forward-thinking Marketing department, you will have the chance to make a real impact and be valued as a proactive and detail-oriented team member from day one.

What You'll Do
As the Digital Marketing Associate for Display & Paid Social at Sainsbury's, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the growth and continuous improvement of the digital marketing programme across display, social, programmatic, VOD, and mobile media. Your responsibilities will include project managing the delivery of campaigns, collaborating closely with internal stakeholders and agencies to ensure best-in-class media campaigns, optimising and measuring campaign performance, and managing budgets to drive commercial impact. By employing a test & learn approach, you will aid in evolving our media programmes and developing digital creative that aligns with customer goals and category plans. Your role will also involve collaborating with various teams to plan and deliver a pipeline of media projects, ensuring campaigns are delivered on time, to budget, and drive continuous growth and performance.

Who You Are
As a Digital Marketing Associate for Sainsbury's, you are a detail-oriented and analytical individual with a passion for digital marketing and a drive to become an expert in the field. With a customer-centric approach and a keen eye for excellent creative, you thrive on using data-driven insights to optimise digital campaigns and make informed decisions. Your ability to manage multiple priorities and projects, work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, and adapt to a fast-paced environment demonstrates your proactive attitude and commitment to delivering impactful results in the dynamic world of digital marketing.

Essential criteria

• Knowledge and practical experience in a range of Social platforms
• Experience in manipulating data, with a strong grasp of intermediate excel skills (pivot tables, lookups).
• Experience on how to use marketing insights to make media choices.
• Experience in the principles of Ecommerce and how paid channels can be used to drive demand.
• Experience of managing paid social, display and programmatic media campaigns, and working with digital media agencies.
• Experience at managing budgets.

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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).