Graphic Designer / Artworker – Press Advertising

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United Kingdom

Our client is a nationally renowned, long established Furniture Retailer with head offices based in Batley. Their creative team inspire and educate their customers on the life enhancing products they design, manufacture and retail throughout the UK. They are currently going through a rebrand with a new look / feel / website and are looking for a talented Creative Graphic Designer / Artworker to join the design team.

 

Graphic Designer

Our Ideal candidate;

 

You’ll already have a good knowledge of design principles and will be able to work to brand guidelines and specific briefs, ensuring that production deadlines are being met and supplying pre-press artwork ready for print. Any knowledge of working on brochures, website banners, leaflets, press ads and digital assets would be a distinct advantage. To be successful you’ll need to be super organised, can manage your own workload and jump between projects as necessary!

 

Creative Designer

Core responsibilities;

 

The main part of the role will be to work across local and national newspaper / magazine press advertising including creation of adverts and maintaining the schedule and sending final artwork to the publications set up to their specifications.

 

Key duties include design / artworking for:

    National Press Advertising

    Direct Mail & Point of Sale

    Brochures

    Marketing/internal comms collateral

    Website Banners/Digital assets

    Retouching of images

 

Press Advertising

Required Skills:

 

Any knowledge of working across national press advertising and digital assets would be a distinct advantage

 

You’ll be an expert with Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. You’ll have a keen eye for detail when it comes to type-setting, layout and high quality re-touching ensuring a quality finish to all creative output from the studio.

 

Also required:

 

      Experience in a busy studio: ideally in a high-volume retail environment

      Creation of digital assets

      Creative / innovative thinking – coming up with new designs

      Strong organisational skills – to ensure nothing is missed, time is managed effectively

      Meticulous attention to detail – always checking and checking again

      Team player – enjoys pulling together

 

What’s in it for you apart from an amazing job opportunity?

 

There’s free parking on-site and a canteen that’s open all day. They’re approx 5 mins walk from Batley train station and also Bradford Road bus routes.

 

They’re a great team that’s very friendly and have a product line that leads the market in their specialist furniture sector.

 

Salary:  £25,000 - £30,000 depending on experience.

 

Hours 9am to 5pm with 30mins for lunch Monday to Friday.

 

This role can be a hybrid role offering 1 day a week work from home if required.

 

Keywords: artworker, creative artworker, MAC artworker, digital artworker, graphic design, graphic designer, creative designer, web banners, print, press advertising, direct marketing, indesign, photoshop, illustrator.

 

Commutable from: Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Barnsley, Huddersfield, Halifax, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.

       

 

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