Creative Designer (12-Month Contract)

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

We are looking for a Creative Designer to join our Integrated Marketing Creative Services team on a 12-month contract. In this role, you will be responsible for ideating and conceptualizing creative assets that align with strategic objectives and resonate across multiple touchpoints. The ability to think omnichannel is essential in delivering cohesive and effective designs. You will work to ensure that all creative adheres to brand guidelines, maintaining consistency in look, feel, tone of voice, and overall visual direction.

Please make sure to include a link to your portfolio in your resume.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

• Design and support the creation of seasonal campaigns and events, generating multiple concepts for review and approval. Adapt agency creative into channel-specific elements as needed.
• Collaborate with copywriters, team leads, and the Omnichannel Creative Manager to ensure integrated campaigns are on-brand and aligned across all touchpoints.
• Design and produce corporate and everyday marketing materials as briefed by business owners, providing multiple proofs and making necessary revisions. Deliver final digital files to printers and digital service providers.
• Partner with Content/Digital teams to develop innovative, customer-centric content that is deployed across all customer touchpoints.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to secure soft approvals of final materials and collaborate cross-functionally with team members.
• Create photography decks and mood boards to brief photographers, food stylists, and prop stylists.
• Manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, ensuring timely and on-budget delivery of all assets. Designers must be resourceful and solutions-oriented, with excellent multitasking skills.
• Support ad hoc projects as needed, contributing to initiatives beyond ongoing campaigns and events.
• Demonstrate the ability to self-start, problem-solve, and be receptive to constructive feedback.
• Collaborate effectively with an integrated, multi-disciplinary team, as well as working autonomously when needed.

What you have to offer:

• 5+ years of experience in design and retail creative.
• Proven experience working within an in-house creative team for corporate retail (grocery or similar).
• Strong print production experience, with the ability to design across various environments and prepare flawless files for production.
• Cross-platform design skills (print, web, video, etc.) and knowledge of industry-leading trends, software, media, and user experience principles.

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.