Strategic Communications Manager
London, UK
Job description
Hybrid – London Store Support Centre and Home
About the team
Our Corporate Affairs team leads all strategic, financial and corporate communications across Sainsbury’s and its brands. We work at the centre of the organisation, partnering with senior leaders, commercial teams, Investor Relations, Government Relations, Consumer PR and Internal Communications. The team operates in a fast‑paced, high‑visibility environment, particularly around financial results, major strategic announcements and key corporate milestones. Joining us means working closely with board‑level stakeholders and playing a key role in how we communicate our strategy, performance and progress to the media, investors and wider audiences.
More about the role
As a Strategic Communications Manager, you will support the delivery of Sainsbury’s strategic and financial communications, reporting into the Senior Strategic Communications Manager. You will help prepare and draft press releases, briefing documents, Q&A materials and social media content relating to key business activity.
A significant part of the role focuses on financial reporting cycles, including drafting materials for full‑year, interim and quarterly results, as well as contributing to the Annual Report. You will work closely with colleagues across the business to gather insights, identify compelling stories, and translate complex business updates into clear external communications.
The role also involves supporting corporate website content management, engaging with journalists, contributing to media events and building relationships across the organisation. You will regularly interact with senior stakeholders, including opportunities to observe and contribute to high‑level discussions around our corporate narrative.
More about you
You will have demonstrable experience in corporate or financial communications, ideally gained through agency or in‑house roles. You can draft clear, accurate and engaging written materials across multiple formats and audiences.
You will be confident building relationships at all levels, including with senior stakeholders. You are comfortable working at pace during busy reporting periods and can manage multiple tasks with accuracy and attention to detail.
You enjoy collaborating with colleagues, developing strong cross‑functional networks and proactively identifying opportunities to improve communication outputs.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to produce accurate written content for corporate or financial communications across multiple formats
- Proven experience delivering communications activity for a corporate organisation or listed company (agency or in‑house)
- Evidence of analysing business information and translating it into clear, audience‑appropriate external communications
- Ability to manage complex workloads to deadlines, including during high‑pressure financial reporting periods
- Ability to build and maintain productive working relationships with senior internal stakeholders and external media contacts
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 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).