Creative Retoucher

Sainsbury's; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Pension scheme

Performance bonus up to 5%

Holiday allowance

Cycle to work

Job summary

Sainsbury's Argos Creative Studio in Milton Keynes (with travel to Bedford) is seeking a talented Retoucher to create high-quality imagery for eCommerce, campaigns and social. You will collaborate with photographers, art directors and producers to realise bold creative visions while maintaining top retouching standards.

You will explore AI-powered tools and automated workflows to improve efficiency, while preserving skin, texture and colour integrity.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Retoucher, with strong high-end commercial retouching experience.
• Experienced in Adobe Photoshop, Capture One and Lightroom.
• Demonstrable retouching skills with a deep understanding of skin, texture, light, colour and form.
• Experience in colour management, masking, compositing, clean-up and colour grading.
• A portfolio showcasing homewares and furniture retouching to a high commercial standard.
• Demonstrable experience delivering retouching across eCommerce, campaign, PR and social channels.
• Hands-on experience using AI-powered retouching tools and automation to improve workflows and productivity.
• Experience creating actions, presets and batch workflows, with the ability to deliver high volumes without compromising quality.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality imagery across eCommerce, campaigns, PR and social, maintaining excellent retouching standards across our creative output.
• Use your expertise in retouching, colour grading, compositing and image finishing to create polished, realistic imagery, working closely with photographers, art directors and producers to bring the creative vision to life.
• Explore and use AI-powered tools and automated workflows, helping us work smarter and more efficiently without compromising on quality.
• Develop retouching guidelines and workflows and share your expertise across the studio.

Skills

Retouching

Adobe Photoshop

Capture One

Lightroom

Color grading

Color management

Compositing

AI-assisted retouching

Batch workflows

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Capture One

Lightroom

Job description

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 retail websites. So marketing here happens at scale. We move faster than you might expect too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360 and Insights. With more people shopping with us every week, there are more interactions, more moments to connect. And thanks to data and insight, we understand our customers in a way few others can. We work alongside incredible brand partners and some of the best agencies in the industry. So if you’re passionate about learning, growing and experiencing new teams, come and explore it all with us.

Milton Keynes and Bedford location - travel to both locations required -

3 days remote and 2 days onsite

Why join us

Joining Argos Creative Studio as a Retoucher means becoming part of our in-house creative agency, helping to create the imagery that brings Argos to life across eCommerce, campaigns, PR and social.

You’ll join a creative, collaborative studio where brilliant craft and new technology come together. Alongside delivering beautifully finished imagery, you’ll have the opportunity to help shape how we use AI, automation and smarter workflows to evolve the way we work. You’ll work closely with photographers, art directors, producers and creative teams, helping us maintain brilliant creative standards across Argos.

What You’ll Do

As a Retoucher within Argos Creative Studio, you’ll deliver high-quality imagery across eCommerce, campaigns, PR and social, maintaining excellent retouching standards across our creative output.

You’ll use your expertise in retouching, colour grading, compositing and image finishing to create polished, realistic imagery, working closely with photographers, art directors and producers to bring the creative vision to life. You’ll also explore and use AI-powered tools and automated workflows, helping us work smarter and more efficiently without compromising on quality.

Alongside your hands‑on creative work, you’ll help develop retouching guidelines and workflows and share your expertise across the studio.

Who You Are

You’re an experienced Retoucher with a strong portfolio of high‑end commercial work and an exceptional eye for detail. You understand the craft behind brilliant retouching, from colour, light and texture through to compositing and finishing, and know how to maintain quality when working at pace.

You’re also curious about what’s next. You’ll be comfortable exploring AI, automation and new creative technology, with good judgement around when technology can make the work better and when traditional retouching craft is essential. Collaborative, organised and straightforward in how you communicate, you’ll enjoy working closely with creative and production teams.

Essential criteria

• Proven experience as a Retoucher, with strong high‑end commercial retouching experience.
• Experienced in Adobe Photoshop, Capture One and Lightroom.
• Demonstrable retouching skills with a deep understanding of skin, texture, light, colour and form.
• Experience in colour management, masking, compositing, clean‑up and colour grading.
• A portfolio showcasing homewares and furniture retouching to a high commercial standard.
• Demonstrable experience delivering retouching across eCommerce, campaign, PR and social channels.
• Hands‑on experience using AI‑powered retouching tools and automation to improve workflows and productivity.
• Experience creating actions, presets and batch workflows, with the ability to deliver high volumes without compromising quality.

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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).