Photographer
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Argos - Bradwell, Milton Keynes, MK13 9HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 13 April 2026
Requisition ID: 400054089
Photographer - 12 month FTC
*Milton Keynes location - 5 days onsite*
Why join us
Joining the Zest Creative Agency at Sainsbury's as a Photographer means being part of a dynamic and creative team dedicated to producing high-quality imagery for leading brands like Argos, Habitat, and Sainsburys. With a focus on E-commerce, furniture, and general merchandise photography, you will have the opportunity to showcase your skills and creativity in both studio and location settings. As a valued member of our team, you will contribute to setting and upholding photography standards, driving workflow improvements, and continuously elevating creative direction to meet brand requirements. With access to leadership, coaching, and personal development tools, you will have the support you need to thrive and grow in a collaborative and innovative environment.
What you'll do
As a Photographer at Sainsbury's Zest Production Studio, you will be responsible for delivering first-class creative content, focusing on producing E-commerce, furniture, and general merchandise photography for Argos, Habitat, and Sainsbury's platforms. Your role will require a keen eye for detail, advanced knowledge of lighting and composition, and strong organisational skills to effectively manage projects and meet production targets. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders to interpret and implement photography direction for eCommerce, maintain photography standards, drive workflow improvements for faster delivery, and stay updated on industry trends to inspire creative growth. Additionally, you will provide expertise in cross-functional meetings, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and maintaining a high level of quality and compliance in all imagery produced.
Who you are
As a Photographer at Sainsbury's Zest Creative Agency, you are a talented and experienced professional with a keen eye for detail, advanced skills in lighting and composition, and a strong portfolio showcasing expertise in creating visually compelling interior and product imagery. With your ability to work both in a studio environment using flash and on location using natural daylight, coupled with your production workflow knowledge and content quality control experience, you play a crucial role in delivering high-quality, on-brand photography across eCommerce platforms for Argos, Habitat, and Sainsburys. Your dedication to creative excellence, collaboration with stakeholders, and proactive approach to driving workflow improvements make you an invaluable asset in the production of premium imagery that meets brand standards and elevates the creative direction of projects.
Essential criteria
Proven experience working as a Photographer within an in‑house brand or creative agency environment.
Demonstrable experience shooting general merchandise and interiors photography.
Proven experience shooting: In‑studio using flash and on location using natural daylight.
Strong portfolio showcasing interior and product imagery across multiple platforms, with evidence of both studio and location shoots.
Experience delivering photography for e‑commerce content.
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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: Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
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).
