Social Media Associate

Job description

Why join us

Joining our team at Sainsbury's as a Social Media Associate in the Digital Marketing division offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in the exciting world of social media, specifically focusing on managing Argos' organic social channels. With a strong emphasis on creativity, trend-spotting, and content creation, you will play a key role in shaping the brand's social presence and engaging with customers across various platforms. Working alongside a supportive team and drawing on resources from multiple agencies and platforms, you will have the chance to showcase your passion for social media, drive innovative content strategies, and make a meaningful impact on our digital marketing efforts.

What you'll do

As the C3 Social Media Associate within the Digital Marketing division at Sainsbury's, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Social Media Lead to manage Argos' organic social media channels. Your responsibilities will include organising, editing, and scheduling engaging content across various social platforms, creating reactive lo-fi social-first content using CapCut, Canva and Adobe Premier Pro, writing captivating captions, collaborating with the in-house agency for content creation, attending shoots to provide support, performing community engagement across our all channels and trending posts, and utilising social media management tools to maintain the brand's social presence. Your deep understanding of social media, proficiency in content creation and editing tools, as well as your ability to spot trends and create engaging content, will be crucial in driving the success of Argos' social media strategy.

Who you are

As a Social Media Associate for Sainsbury's Digital Marketing team, you are a creative and strategic individual with a deep passion for social media and a proven track record in creating engaging content across various platforms. You love social and are always up to date with the latest trends, you’re well-versed across different platforms with experience creating content for different channels. With your expertise in content creation, editing, and management, along with your ability to spot trends and respond with innovative content, you play a key role in managing and maintaining the brand's social presence. Your strong project management skills, stakeholder management abilities, and experience working with digital media agencies enable you to drive successful social media campaigns and initiatives that align with the brand's strategy and customer plan.

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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 additional 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, pay 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).

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.