Photographer - 11 month FTC, Milton Keynes location
Why Join Us
At Zest, Sainsbury’s in-house content creation studio, you’ll join a bold, imaginative team of creatives shaping the visual identity of some of the UK’s most beloved brands, habitat and Argos . Spanning across three locations, with this role being based at our Milton Keynes Studio, we bring our general merchandise products to life through high-quality imagery, impactful campaigns, and vibrant e-commerce visuals that reach millions of customers.
We’re not just about capturing content, we’re about elevating brand stories. Working at Zest means collaborating with stylists, art directors, retouchers, and creatives who share your passion for pushing boundaries, innovating with purpose, and crafting visually stunning work.
Here, you’ll find a culture that thrives on creativity, values people as much as process, and genuinely supports work-life balance. We offer flexibility and autonomy, so you can bring your best both in and out of the studio.
What You’ll Do
- Shoot e-commerce, campaign, and collaborations content in the studio and on location.
- Deliver imagery aligned with creative briefs and brand guidelines.
- Manage fast-paced shoot schedules, hitting KPIs with precision.
- Collaborate closely with production, runners, stylists, producers, art directors, and retouchers.
- Innovate, bringing fresh visual and operational ideas that elevate our content.
- Maintain professional standards across workflow, file handling, and comms.
What You Bring
- Strong portfolio showcasing e-commerce and campaign product shoots.
- Studio and location experience, with lighting and composition expertise.
- Proficient in Capture One, Photoshop.
- Organised, reliable, and confident managing high-volume output.
- Strong communicator and collaborative team player, ability to live our values Be Human, Own IT, Make it better, Act with Zest.
- Obsessed with quality, detail, and continuous improvement.
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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 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.
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.