Integrated Project Director

Why join us

Joining our team at Sainsbury's Tu offers an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of one of the UK’s most recognised retail brands, delivering creative work that brings Tu to life for our customers. As an Integrated Project Director, you will lead and manage cross-functional teams, delivering high-impact creative projects across multiple channels and disciplines. With a focus on creative excellence and timely execution, you will work closely with stakeholders to drive best-in-class creative delivery.

We value teamwork, resilience, and innovation, and offer a supportive and inclusive culture where you can thrive and make a real impact. Join us and be part of a passionate team creating exceptional work, shaping the future of Tu and delivering outstanding experiences for our customers.

What you'll do

As the Integrated Project Director for Sainsbury's Tu, you will be responsible for leading and managing cross-functional brand-specific teams throughout the entire project lifecycle. Your role will involve ensuring timely delivery, creative feasibility, adherence to scope, and budget compliance. Working closely with various stakeholders, including marketing, department heads, leads, and team members, you will ensure the successful execution of projects.

With strong project management skills and leadership abilities, you will handle multifaceted projects that require a high degree of integration across different channels and disciplines. Your focus will be on driving best-in-class creative delivery, mapping out timelines, managing budgets, leading project meetings, and collaborating with external vendors and agencies. Additionally, you will direct and support junior Integrated Project Managers when necessary, while personally taking responsibility for selected projects.

Overall, your role will be pivotal in ensuring the smooth and successful delivery of creative projects within the allocated resources and meeting the brand's objectives and quality standards.

Who you are

As the Integrated Project Director, you will bring significant experience leading complex, integrated creative projects from brief through to delivery. You will have proven experience managing cross-functional teams and delivering projects across multiple channels and disciplines, balancing creative ambition with timelines, budgets, scope and resource. You’ll be confident managing senior stakeholders, building trusted relationships and navigating competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Strong experience in project planning, budget management, resource management and working with external agencies and vendors is essential. You’ll be an experienced people leader, able to motivate and support project teams while taking ownership of high-profile projects yourself. Most importantly, you’ll bring excellent problem-solving skills, resilience and a genuine passion for delivering best-in-class creative work.

Essential criteria

Experience leading integrated creative projects from brief through to delivery.

Proven experience managing cross-functional teams and coordinating multiple stakeholders across a project lifecycle.

Experience delivering integrated campaigns/projects across multiple channels and creative disciplines.

Demonstrable experience managing project timelines, budgets, scope and resources within a fast-paced creative environment.

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 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 additional holiday. 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, 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

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).