Food Economist

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Argos - Bradwell and Home, Milton Keynes, MK13 9HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 18 February 2025
Requisition ID: 290153

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.

Joining Sainsbury's Zest team as a Food Economist means becoming part of a dynamic and creative environment where your passion for food styling and presentation can flourish. You will collaborate with a talented team of creatives, photographers, and stylists to shape the visual identity of Sainsbury's food content, creating captivating imagery that showcases the quality and appeal of our products across various platforms.

What you'll do

1. Create visually stunning and authentic food content that showcases the quality and appeal of Sainsbury's products across various channels.
2. Collaborate with the creative team to develop the look and feel of food content.
3. Prepare and style a wide variety of food products for photo shoots, ensuring the highest presentation standards.
4. Stay up-to-date with food trends and provide on-set expertise.
5. Contribute creative input to concept development in a fast-paced environment.

Who you are

As a Food Economist at Zest, you are a highly skilled and creative professional with a passion for culinary arts and visual storytelling. Your expertise in food styling, preparation, and presentation, combined with your keen eye for detail and ability to work under pressure, allows you to elevate Sainsbury's food visuals to be enticing, authentic, and aligned with brand standards. Collaborative, organised, and trend-savvy, you thrive in a fast-paced environment.

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.

Here are some of the benefits you'll receive:

1. Colleague discount of 10% on shopping online and instore, increased to 15% at points during the year.
2. Pensions scheme and life cover.
3. Performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary.
4. Annual holiday allowance with an option to buy an additional week.
5. Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, and salary advance options.
6. Employee assistance programme.
7. 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).