Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's, means becoming part of a dynamic and collaborative team in a role that offers exceptional opportunities for growth and impact. As the Senior Integrated Project Director, you will lead and manage cross-functional teams throughout the entire project lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery, creative feasibility, and budget compliance. With our multi-channel and multi-brand business, you will have the chance to work on diverse projects and collaborate closely with stakeholders across marketing, department heads, and creative teams. In our inclusive and agile environment, you will have the space to innovate, problem-solve, and make a significant contribution to the successful execution of projects. Your leadership abilities and expertise in project management will be crucial in driving best-in-class creative delivery while fostering a high-performing team. By joining us, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, nurture enduring client partnerships, and play a vital role in shaping the future of our creative operations.

What you'll do
As the Senior Integrated Project Director within the Marketing & Loyalty division, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing cross-functional teams throughout the entire project lifecycle. Your responsibilities will encompass ensuring timely delivery, creative feasibility, adherence to scope, and budget compliance. Collaborating closely with various stakeholders, including marketing, department heads, leads, and team members, you will guarantee the successful execution of projects. Your role will demand exceptional project management skills, strong leadership abilities, and the capacity to handle multifaceted projects with a high degree of integration across different channels and disciplines. Additionally, you will be responsible for driving best-in-class creative delivery aligned with the brand's purpose, maintaining high standards while adhering to agreed timelines and budgets. A key aspect of your role will be to effectively predict workload demands, secure necessary resources, and expertly navigate projects through each phase. Alongside this, you will provide guidance and support to more junior Integrated Project Managers when required, while personally taking responsibility for selected projects, ensuring their seamless execution.

Who you are
As a Senior Integrated Project Director, you are a dynamic leader with extensive experience in managing cross-functional teams and delivering high-quality projects with complex integration across various channels and disciplines. With a strong focus on creative delivery, you demonstrate exceptional project management skills, ensuring timely and budget-compliant execution while maintaining the highest standards of quality. Your ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and clients, combined with your expertise in negotiation and problem-solving, enables you to navigate through uncertainties and drive successful outcomes. As a natural collaborator, influencer, and motivator, you inspire your team members to excel and foster a culture of innovation, resilience, and creativity.

There are three core components to Zest's interview process with one of those stages comprising of an Assessment Centre.

The dates the Assessment Centre will be taking place on are the 6th, 13th, 15th & 18th March.

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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 20% 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, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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.