Graphic Designer \ Artworking – Marketing Department

Job Title: Graphic Designer / Artworking – Marketing Department

Type: Fixed Term Contract – 6 months Maternity

Salary: £26,000per year

Location: Blackpool

This is a key role within the marketing department although the position is a fixed term contract of 6 months, covering maternity. It is an excellent position and opportunity for someone who would like to gain experience in a successful manufacturing, high gloss environment.

Through your understanding of product placement and promotion you will ensure marketing activities are analysed and suggested revisions where necessary are identified.

Person Specification

Able to follow design briefs and brand guidelines
Confident to pose questions, work proactively and make suggestions during the design process
Able to produce work to a high level of consistency
Able to work within a team of graphic designers
Able to work to clearly defined deadlines, and sometimes under pressure
Able to organise workload and prioritise tasks in an efficient manner
Able to maintain performance in stressful and challenging circumstances
Excellent attention to detail and the ability to check own work for amends
Able to respond to feedback with a positive view, with the bigger picture in mind

Competencies

Performance Focus

Energetic, committed and determined to deliver results.
Able to work at an excellent pace without a negative effect on quality.

and Technical focus

Practical experience and competence using Indesign and Photoshop.
Ability and willingness to ensure you produce high quality work that matches requirements.
Follow design briefs with excellent attention to detail.
Ability to work within defined design templates to ensure consistency.
Ability to use own creativity to create more design-led pages, following a brief.
Putting forward suggestions on how page designs might be refreshed and improved.
Quality control of own and other designers’ work.
Preparation of print-ready artwork.

Planning and Organising

Complete your workload effectively to ensure service is not compromised with 100% accuracy at all stages.
Prioritise workload to meet deadlines.

Impact and Communication

Demonstrates professional credibility through communicating clearly, ensuring a positive image is portrayed through appropriate business dress and presence.
Perform with energy, commitment and determination to deliver results.
Support team by sharing information and demonstrating best practice.

Resilience and Stress Management

Maintain personal performance and confidence in difficult, stressful, ambiguous and challenging circumstances.
Recognise and act on signals of stress and respond appropriately when working under conditions of continuous pressure.
Deal with situations in infancy to avoid future complications.

Administration

Completes all assigned tasks to the required standard and ensures work is not unduly created for other members of the team.
Accurate saving of work, with comprehensive version control.

Role Tasks

Follow design briefs to create artwork for various pages of the catalogue.
Make amends to designs as instructed and marked up by the marketing team.
Selection of appropriate images for page layouts.
Accurate and methodical saving of designs.
Potentially adding logos to product photographs.
Other input into the catalogue design process, as necessary.
Preparation of print ready artwork.
Quality control of own and other designers’ artwork.

Please note: If you have not been contacted within 1 week of your application, you have not been selected for this particular role.