Job Description

:Why join usAs an Interior Stylist, you will have the exciting opportunity to bring our products and brands to life through your innovative and creative styling expertise. With a focus on pushing boundaries and exceeding stakeholder expectations, you will contribute to creating exceptional shopping experiences for our customers across various channels and platforms. As an equal opportunities employer, we value diversity, fostering an inclusive and collaborative work environment where everyone is welcome to contribute and thrive. Join us and become part of a team that values creativity, embraces innovation, and strives to build a better future for our colleagues and customers.What you'll be doingYou will be responsible for styling campaigns, social content, interior room sets, cutouts, models, jewellery, videos, and home inspiration, working across a wide range of General Merchandise, Jewellery, and Fashion products. Your innovative and relevant solutions to briefs will showcase your creativity and push boundaries, ensuring that our content exceeds stakeholder expectations and enhances the customer journey. Drawing upon your experience in the interior design industry, you will have a keen eye for textures, colours, and effective use of props. Your understanding of the retail landscape, commerce trends, and brands will enable you to meet our high standards of styling.Who you areAs an Interior Stylist for Zest, our in-house content creation agency, you are an experienced professional with a strong creative flair within the interior design industry. With proven experience in a commercial environment, you have a keen eye for styling interiors, still life photography, and video, with a deep understanding of textures, colours, and prop sourcing. Your portfolio showcases your ability to deliver innovative and creative solutions to briefs, while constantly pushing boundaries and exceeding stakeholder expectations. Your understanding of the retail landscape, commerce trends, and competitor brands enables you to elevate the customer experience and contribute to the overall success of Sainsbury's.Division/Dept.Zest - in-house creative agency (production studios) / Marketing & LoyaltyLocationMilton KeynesReporting toEcommerce Art DirectorIn a nutshell
The Zest studios Stylist is accountable for the delivery of first-class creative output, with a focus on producing E-commerce content which will occasionally be supplemented with PR & Campaign level content when required. They will play a role in ensuring creative excellence in all content output to the very highest standard, flexing across a diverse array of creative mediums and brand content production for Sainsbury's, Argos, Habitat, Tu and Nectar. With strong industry creative and production knowledge, the role will demonstrate a specialist in lifestyle, interiors and food Styling.The ideal candidate will have a strong portfolio showcasing their ability to create visually compelling imagery, across multiple platforms, with evidence of both studio and location styling. This role requires a keen eye for detail, an advanced understanding of styling composition, prop and the organizational skills to manage multiple projects efficiently.What you need to do

• Deliver innovative, creative, and relevant solutions to briefs.
• Champion innovation, pushing creative boundaries, and seeking new imaginative ideas to exceed stakeholder expectations and enhance the customer journey.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment as a collaborative team member.
• Efficiently manage workload for self and assistants, meeting daily and weekly targets while maintaining high styling standards for multiple sets in studio or on location.
• Comprehend briefs, collaborate effectively with art directors, and provide constructive creative feedback when required.
• Confidently style on location, coordinating set build, and floor coordinators to achieve shared goals.
• Collaborate with the styling manager and art directors to enhance the team's in-house capabilities through coaching and training of mid and junior stylists.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business.
• Ensure sets and styling props areas are well-maintained and tidy throughout the shoot day.

How will I know I'm succeeding in this role:

• Production output will meet and exceed expectations of the business and wider agency. With strong feedback and recognition.
• Relationships will be open, collaborative and glue-like across the agency and with our wider business partners. There will be strong and consistent outward visibility across a wide network of stakeholders.
• Possesses an excellent work ethic, maintains a positive and professional demeanor, and brings creative thinking to their work.
• Exhibits strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to lead by example.
• Has a keen eye for detail, a creative styling sense, and a strong commercial awareness.
• Passionate about styling and eager to drive the department forward.
• Avid follower of interior trends with the ability to filter information and implement it appropriately in styling for all brands at Zest.
• Development in portfolio with a curation of your best work, highlighting your unique talents and expertise that makes a compelling impression on potential clients.

What you need to know and show:Professional Competencies:

• Be constantly on the pulse of creative and production trends to lead and inspire.
• Previous proven experienced in a creative and commercial studio environment or within the interior design industry.
• Experience styling interiors and still life for photography & video.
• Understanding of textures and colours and how to effectively use and source props.
• A good understanding of the retail landscape, commerce trends, brands and competitors.
• Portfolio of work to be able to showcase ability to style at a high standard.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Ability to think outside of the box quickly and find creative solutions to resource and production challenges.
• Believing in one's own expertise and capability to succeed and inspiring confidence in others with creative skillsets.
• Always asking questions to really understand workload challenges, seeking out new and inventive ways of managing the flow of work and improving creative output
• Comprehending the creative mindset and embracing differing perspectives from various stakeholders. Demonstrating empathy and providing support.
• Exceptionally organized, highly conscious and aware of studio production status - ensuring all relevant information is stored and communicated efficiently
• In an environment marked by frequent changes, flexibility and adaptability to shifting project demands and resource limitations are essential. The creation of exceptional work often necessitates mid-course adjustments, and responsiveness to these changes it critical
• Be able and willing to drive the team forward with enthusiasm and positivity
• Resilience: Ability to always remain calm under pressure and to be a leading example of this behaviour for the rest of Zest. Persistence and drive in ensuring excellent delivery.

Support we will provide/ Resources available to me:

• Fully suited production studios and extensive creative production teams (mix of internal and freelance personnel)
• Fully suited set design and build workshop
• Operational & production leadership support - In form of Head of Studio and Studio Manager - GM & Food (MK), Creative Manager of Styling & Art Direction & Art Directors.
• Sainsburys home hub, AskHR, MyHR, Health, Wellness, Finance support

Hay ratingGradeC3Please note: This role profile is aimed at describing the core output that should be achieved in this role. It is not intended to include specific tasks, temporary activities or projects to recognise flexibility in a changing context.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.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.

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