Sainsbury's
Job title:
Experience Designer – Nectar360 (midweight)
Company
Sainsbury’s
Job description
Job Description:Experience Designer – Nectar360 (midweight)At Sainsbury’s we believe that the customer should be at the heart of everything we do. Our vision is to create the easiest, most enjoyable experiences that better serve our customers’ ever-changing needs. We work across a range of services, products, touch points and tools to deliver distinctive, integrated, and consistent experiences for our customers and colleagues across Sainsbury’s Group (which includes Sainsbury’s Food, Argos, Tu, Habitat, Nectar, and Smart Charge)We drive brilliant experiences across all our brands in-store and online, operating in agile teams and squads, working seamlessly with teams right across the business to make the most of the exceptional knowledge, insight and talent we have.We know that great experiences aren’t created by accident. That’s why we’ve built a large, diverse and inclusive team. It may be surprising but there are 80 of us. From UX to service designers. Copywriters to researchers and accessibility specialists. Together, we craft exceptional products and services across all our brands and channels. We make things better, and we’re respected across the group for the impact we haveThe role:You’ll be working as part of the Nectar 360 design team; we look after the experience of digital products for suppliers and colleagues. This role will focus on supporting key B2B digital platforms, with responsibilities split across ongoing development projects. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally to ensure seamless design implementation, strategic alignment, and a high-quality user experience.What you’ll do:
- Research supplier & colleague needs through observation and interviews.
- Organise and conduct research and user testing.
- Run design collaboration sessions with stakeholders from across the group to share insights and ideas.
- Collaborate & align with key stakeholders around roadmap features and prioritisation.
- Work within agile teams to get your solutions into the hands of our users.
- Lead the creation of user journey flows.
- Work with copywriters to brief new content needs across product modules as well as review the implementation of copy across sprints.
- Coordinate with third party agencies: Act as a liaison between internal, eternal teams and development squads to ensure new UI directions are feasible, aligned with business goals, and implemented in upcoming sprints.
- Gather and prioritise feature requirements as well as ensuring smooth handovers to Engineering teams.
- Design and test concepts and solutions.
- Champion inclusive design principles in your work and throughout the team
What we’re looking for:Industry experience as a UX or Product Designer is essential. As are the core technical skills outlined in the role details above. Alongside this, we’re looking for certain behaviours and competency skills. These skills will help you thrive in a dynamic team like ours.Skills we’re looking for:
- User centred design and knowledge of how to design inclusively
- Competency and capability at UX design process, collaboration, and co-creation
- Ability to do visual and interaction design using a design system
- Expertise designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma
- Capable of conducting research and interpreting results
- Influence and negotiation skills
- Adaptable to changing priorities, complexity and unknowns
- Stakeholder engagement, management, and confidence challenging your peers and stakeholders
- Taking initiative and driving change
- Tailoring your approach for different audiences
- Strategic mindedness – thinking of the broader picture and connecting dots.
Support we will provide:
- A thriving design culture, opportunity to discuss and share work with open, collaborative feedback
- A mature design system and set of standards to work with
- Research, accessibility and UX copywriting expertise.
- Opportunity to work on high-impact, large-scale digital platforms that shape Supplier experience.
- Flexible working options with a focus on work-life balance.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
Tips and guidance on what we look for in portfolios:Responsibilities:We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.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 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 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 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).
Expected salary
Location
London
Job date
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 05:22:06 GMT
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