Strategic Communications Executive

Job description

Hybrid – London Store Support Centre and Home  

About the team

Our Corporate Affairs team is responsible for safeguarding and strengthening Sainsbury’s corporate reputation across all our brands. We operate at the centre of the business, partnering with colleagues across Corporate Affairs, Investor Relations, Marketing, Commercial, Finance and wider teams. As part of this fast‑paced and collaborative function, we deliver strategic, financial and corporate communications that help demonstrate our progress, purpose and performance to customers, colleagues, media, investors and other stakeholders.

More about the role

As a Strategic Communications Executive, you will support the delivery of Sainsbury’s strategic communications activity, playing a vital role in building and protecting our corporate reputation. You will help draft press releases, social media posts, briefing materials and other external communications, while also managing media lists, coordinating events and supporting our engagement with journalists.

You will maintain and update content across our corporate website, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and optimisation for AI. You will work closely with Investor Relations to support financial reporting moments, assist our press office with reactive media activity and provide essential team administration, including reporting, diary management, inbox management, invoicing and file organisation.

More about you

You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, accurate and engaging content. You’ll have an interest in current affairs, the media landscape and how major brands communicate externally across different channels.

You will be highly organised, detail‑focused and confident managing multiple tasks. You enjoy building relationships, working collaboratively and contributing to a positive, supportive team culture.

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable ability to produce accurate written content for external communications such as press releases, social posts or briefing documents
• Proven experience contributing to communications activity in an agency or in‑house environment, including internships or project-based work
• Evidence of effective task management, including planning, prioritisation and delivery to deadlines with consistent attention to detail
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel to support communications, reporting and administrative tasks
• Ability to build and maintain productive working relationships with internal colleagues and external stakeholders such as journalists or partners

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