External Campaigns Executive

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an External Campaigns Executive in the Corporate Affairs division, where you'll shape communications and engage with stakeholders to promote a resilient UK food system. Ideal for a communications professional passionate about impactful storytelling and purpose-led campaigns.

Benefits

Colleague Discount

Pensions Scheme

Life Cover

Performance-related Bonus

Annual Holiday Allowance

Season Ticket Loans

Cycle to Work Scheme

Health Cash Plans

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Communications professional with media relations experience.
• Ability to craft stories from complex information.

Responsibilities

• Support development of external narratives aligned with Sainsbury's purpose.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders.
• Deliver corporate communications that bring Sainsbury's purpose to life.

Skills

Project Management

Media Relations

Communication

Networking

Persuasion

Problem Solving

Job description

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Why join us
Joining the Corporate Affairs division of Sainsbury's as an External Campaigns Executive presents a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in communications for the business.

As part of this dynamic and forward-thinking team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the external narrative surrounding Sainsbury's purpose and contributions to the UK food system. With a focus on campaigns and innovative storytelling, you will have the chance to harness your passion for communication to position Sainsbury's as a leader in creating a resilient food system.

This role provides a platform for engaging with key stakeholders, honing your skills in purpose-led communications, and fostering strong relationships internally and externally, all while being part of a collaborative and inclusive team culture dedicated to achieving collective outcomes and continuous improvement.

What you'll do
As the External Campaigns Executive at Sainsbury's, reporting to the External Campaigns Manager in the Corporate Affairs division, you will play a pivotal role in supporting campaign activities related to the company's purpose and commitment to securing a resilient UK food system.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting with the development and delivery of a cohesive external narrative aligned with Sainsbury's purpose and strategic outcomes
• Helping to deliver corporate and purpose-led communications that bring Sainsbury’s purpose to life, positioning the brand as a champion of the UK food system
• Building and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders within and beyond the organisation, showcasing Sainsbury's role in making good food joyful, accessible, and affordable for everyone

Who you are
As our External Campaigns Executive in Sainsbury's Corporate Affairs division, you are communications professional with an understanding of purpose-led campaigns and corporate storytelling. You will have an in depth understanding of the media landscape and media relations experience as well as the ability to craft stories and narratives from complex information.

Your creative thinking and effective communication skills will contribute to successful campaign delivery, while your collaborative approach and strong attention to detail ensure cohesive and impactful external narratives that resonate with key stakeholders and audiences.

Other key skills include:

• Good project management skills, being highly organised and managing well upwards
• Ideally, existing media relations experience in the corporate space that you can leverage
• Good understanding of current affairs and the trends/topics shaping businesses and their reputation
• Be a natural networker, who proactively builds and nurtures relationships
• Strong persuasion and influencing skills
• Solution seeker, overcoming obstacles to secure what is needed
• Positive and results-focused
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Drive deadlines across internal stakeholders
• Be flexible and able to adapt to a fast-moving internal environment

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Please apply for the role with a cover letter and your most up to date CV.

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. This is where you’ll enjoy a broad range of projects, no matter what your level, because our Corporate Affairs team is non-hierarchical and truly plugged in to the rest of the business. Whether it’s internal, external or government relations, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with everyone from food waste to health, or general merchandising to Nectar, in order to support some amazing campaigns. You’ll help build trust around Sainsbury’s with customers, senior stakeholders, media and more. And if non-linear progression is what you’re after, you’ll find opportunities are all around.

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).