Senior Editor

Sainsbury's; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking a Senior Editor to join its Zest Production Studios in Milton Keynes. The role involves leading a team of editors to deliver high-quality post-production work on Ecommerce and Marcom projects. Candidates should have extensive experience with NLE software and strong leadership skills. The position offers an opportunity to drive creative projects and enhance editorial processes within a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Colleague discount up to 15%

Pensions scheme and life cover

Performance-related bonus up to 10%

Annual holiday allowance

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Proven track record in leading and scaling editing teams.
• Extensive hands-on experience with industry-standard NLE software.
• Strong capability in designing and implementing efficient editorial processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of video and content editors to ensure high-quality postproduction.
• Set and uphold editorial standards while managing workflows.
• Balance hands-on editing with managerial responsibilities.

Skills

Leadership in Editorial Operations

Technical Proficiency in Editing Tools

Process Design and Documentation

Tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

Avid Media Composer

Final Cut Pro

Adobe After Effects

DaVinci Resolve

Job description

Overview

Senior Editor - Milton Keynes onsite location

12 month FTC

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's Zest Production Studios as a Senior Editor means becoming a pivotal part of a dynamic and innovative team that leads in video and content editing. With the opportunity to work on high-profile Ecommerce and Marcom projects, you will drive the post-production process, set industry standards, and inspire a talented team of editors to deliver exceptional results. At Zest Studio Bradwell in Milton Keynes, you will have the chance to showcase your creativity, leadership, and expertise while continuously evolving our capabilities and ensuring client satisfaction. If you are passionate about visual storytelling, process-driven excellence, and collaborative innovation, this role offers a stimulating environment where you can make a significant impact and grow professionally within a supportive and forward-thinking organisation.

What you\'ll do

As the Senior Editor at Zest Production Studios within Sainsbury's Marketing Bradwell Media, you will play a pivotal role in leading a talented team of video and content editors to ensure the delivery of high-quality postproduction work for both Ecommerce and Marcom projects. Your responsibilities will encompass setting and upholding editorial standards, nurturing a collaborative and growth-oriented culture within your team, and overseeing the end-to-end editorial process to meet creative objectives and client expectations. Additionally, you will balance hands-on editing for flagship projects, manage editorial resource allocation, and drive continuous improvement in postproduction capabilities, all while fostering innovation and excellence in visual storytelling.

Who you are

As a Senior Editor at Zest Production Studios for Sainsbury's, you are a seasoned professional with a proven track record in leading and scaling editing teams in fast-paced agency or in-house environments. Your deep expertise in professional NLEs, compositing, and colour grading tools, along with your strong process design skills, enables you to define and enforce end-to-end post-production workflows that drive efficiency, creativity, and quality in every project. With your collaborative leadership style, attention to detail, and passion for visual storytelling, you excel in balancing hands-on editing with managerial responsibilities, while continuously evolving post-production capabilities to meet evolving industry trends and client expectations.

Essential criteria

• Leadership in Editorial Operations: Demonstrated experience in leading and scaling editorial or post-production teams within fast-paced agency or in-house environments, with a proven ability to manage workflows and deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines.
• Technical Proficiency in Editing Tools: Extensive hands-on experience with industry-standard non-linear editing (NLE) software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, and Final Cut Pro, as well as proficiency in compositing and colour grading tools including Adobe After Effects and DaVinci Resolve.
• Process Design and Documentation: Strong capability in designing and implementing efficient editorial processes, with a track record of producing clear and comprehensive documentation such as workflows, run-sheets, and editorial style guides.

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 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).

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.