Junior Stylist

Sainsbury's; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK supermarket chain is seeking a Junior Stylist to join their creative team at Zest Studios. This role focuses on supporting styling efforts, managing a prop store, and ensuring top-quality product presentations. Candidates should demonstrate strong attention to detail and the ability to efficiently manage their workload. The position is based in Milton Keynes and offers various employee benefits including discounts, performance bonuses, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Colleague discount

Pensions scheme and life cover

Performance-related bonus

Annual holiday allowance

Health cash plans

Employee assistance programme

Maternity and paternity pay

Qualifications

• Detail-oriented and driven individual.
• Ability to manage workload and meet targets.
• Strong eye for detail.

Responsibilities

• Support styling and runner team in preparing products.
• Organise and maintain prop store.
• Efficiently manage daily workload to meet targets.

Skills

Attention to detail

Commercial awareness

Ability to follow guidelines

Knowledge of interior trends

Job description

Why join us

By joining Zest Studios, our in-house content creation studio for Sainsbury’s, you'll have the opportunity to be part of a unique, creative, and fun environment that spans across three locations. Collaborating with a large team of creative and technical experts, you'll contribute to the production of high-quality content for a wide range of products across our brands. As a Junior Stylist, you'll play a crucial role in bringing our products and brands to life, ensuring an exceptional shopping experience for our customers. We value diversity and foster an inclusive work environment, where everyone is welcome and has the chance to contribute to building a better future for both our colleagues and customers.

What you'll be doing

As the Junior Stylist at Zest, you will play a crucial role in supporting our styling and runner team in preparing products and organising our prop store. With a keen eye for detail, you will follow prop store guidelines. Your responsibilities will include ensuring the maintenance and tracking of props and efficiently managing your daily workload to meet set targets. As a Junior Stylist, your creative flair, commercial awareness, and ability to follow instructions will contribute to creating an exceptional shopping experience for our customers, bringing our products and brands to life. At Sainsbury's Argos, we foster an inclusive and diverse work environment, welcoming everyone to be a part of our innovative and collaborative team.

Who you are

As a Junior Stylist at Zest, you are a detail-oriented and driven individual who plays a key role in the organisation of our prop store and flow of products around the studios. With a strong eye for detail, and commercial awareness, you have the ability to follow guidelines and understand briefs. You are an avid follower of interior trends and possess the skill to incorporate this knowledge into the styling team. Your ability to efficiently manage your workload, maintain organisation of product and props, and meet set targets contributes to delivering a truly exceptional shopping experience for our customers. As an equal opportunities employer, we value diversity and foster an inclusive work environment where everyone is welcome.

Qualifications

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.

Responsibilities

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 websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us.