Integrated Project Manager, 4-month FTC

Why join us

Joining our team at Sainsbury's, presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a collaborative and dynamic environment. As an Integrated Project Manager, you will play a key role in brand-specific teams throughout the entire project lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery, creative feasibility, and adherence to scope and budget. With a focus on driving best-in-class creative delivery, you will have the chance to work with talented cross-functional teams, industry-leading technologies, and diverse stakeholders to bring impactful campaigns to life. We value creativity, collaboration, and personal growth, offering a platform for you to showcase your leadership skills, tackle multifaceted projects, and contribute to exceptional creative work that captivates audiences and delivers business success.

What you'll do

As an Integrated Project Manager within our integrated creative agency Zest, you will play a crucial role in brand-specific teams throughout the entire project lifecycle. Your responsibilities will include ensuring timely delivery, creative feasibility, adherence to scope, and budget compliance for projects within your remit. Working closely with stakeholders from various departments, including marketing, department heads, and leads, you will be responsible for driving best-in-class creative delivery and securing necessary resources for the successful execution of projects. With your project management skills, you will handle multifaceted projects with a high degree of integration across different channels and disciplines, aligning teams and stakeholders to achieve project goals. In addition, you will lead and motivate cross-functional project teams, monitor project budgets, and provide insights to improve everyday work, all while maintaining a solutions-oriented approach and passion for delivering exceptional creative work.

Who you are

As an Integrated Project Manager, you are a highly skilled and experienced professional with a passion for delivering impactful creative projects. You possess excellent project management skills, allowing you to successfully lead cross-functional teams throughout the entire project lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery, creative feasibility, and adherence to scope and budget. Your collaborative nature and ability to motivate teams enable you to foster effective communication and collaboration, while your strong negotiation skills and creative solutions-focused mindset ensure the production of high-quality creative work. With your exceptional organisational skills and ability to handle multiple projects seamlessly, you thrive in a fast-paced environment, driving projects forward while maintaining outstanding time management. Your emotional intelligence, resilience, and creative problem-solving abilities empower you to navigate challenges and make informed decisions to keep projects on track. Ultimately, your passion for delivering best-in-class creative work and your commitment to personal growth contribute to the overall success of our creative operations at Sainsbury's.

Essential criteria

Proven track record in leading complex, multi-channel projects within an integrated creative agency.

Experienced in project management including project scope, timelines, and budget control.

Experience in financial accountability for a portfolio of work.

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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 retail websites. So marketing here happens at scale. We move faster than you might expect too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360 and Insights. With more people shopping with us every week, there are more interactions, more moments to connect. And thanks to data and insight, we understand our customers in a way few others can. We work alongside incredible brand partners and some of the best agencies in the industry. So if you’re passionate about learning, growing and experiencing new teams, come and explore it all with us.

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 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 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).