Senior Stylist

Why join us

Join our in-house creative agency team for the opportunity to be at the forefront of producing compelling, high-quality content for Argos and Habitat. As a Senior Stylist, you will lead shoots to deliver exceptional creative output while staying aligned with industry trends and fostering innovation. With the chance to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, you will have access to argos studios and a supportive team that values creativity, resilience, and continuous growth. This role offers the perfect balance of creative expression, development, and the opportunity to make a significant impact through visually captivating storytelling.

What you'll do

As the Senior Stylist within our in-house creative agency, you will be responsible for delivering top-tier creative content, focusing on PR and Campaign-level material occasionally supplemented with E-comms content. Your role will encompass ensuring creative excellence at the highest standard across a range of brand content production for Argos and Habitat. With a specialisation in lifestyle and interiors Styling, you will lead the team in developing visually compelling imagery across various platforms, demonstrating your expertise in studio and location styling. Additionally, you will act as a mentor to assistant & junior stylists, nurturing their growth, and refining their industry knowledge and skills to achieve exceptional results.

Who you are

You are a seasoned professional with a keen eye for detail and a wealth of experience in creating visually compelling imagery across multiple platforms. Your ability to lead and mentor, combined with your advanced understanding of styling composition, prop selection, and art direction, enables you to deliver first-class creative output with a focus on PR & Campaign level content. Your dedication to continuous learning, team growth, and creative excellence, along with your organisational skills in managing multiple projects efficiently, make you a valuable asset in ensuring creative excellence and producing high-quality brand content for Argos and Habitat.

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable styling experience, with a strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality lifestyle and interiors work across multiple platforms.
• Experience delivering and leading PR and Campaign-level creative content.
• Experienced in styling composition, prop selection and art direction.
• Proven studio and location styling experience.
• Experience leading, mentoring and developing junior stylists.

 

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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 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 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 up to an additional week's 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, 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).