Art Director - Asda Magazine Bristol, England
Job description
Art Director £50,000
Company description
Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We're home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music.
We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content – in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, YourHome, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus.
Our Media’s content agency works with major charities, brands and membership organisations to help them tell their stories and engage audiences better – in print, video, and online.
Position
In our content marketing agency, we are excited to be producing the in-store customer magazine for one of the UK’s biggest and most dynamic food retailers: Asda. As Art Director, you will take overall responsibility for the look and feel, shaping a modern, vibrant and diverse magazine that will be read by millions.
You will bring creative vision, original thinking and design direction, covering food, fashion, homes and community. You will inspire confidence in our client with your awareness of creative trends, and ability to express their brand. Joining a fast-paced, high-energy team, you will play a key role in delivering best-in-class creative every month.
Responsibilities
- Commission, plan and art direct outstanding food and lifestyle photography, working with best-in-class photographers and stylists, in line with client brand and creative direction
- Pitch a regular flow of creative approaches into the client, and work closely with them on shoots and overall design to fulfil our shared vision
- Lead a small design team day-to-day to deliver a brilliant magazine every month, maintaining quality, workflow, budgets and schedules
- Working hands-on, create scamps and lay out magazine pages in InDesign
- Collaborate with the wider team (editorial, account management) to innovate, ideate, pitch ideas and troubleshoot
- Oversee and / or design digital content (emailers, social graphics, animated gifs etc.) to support print magazine content
- Work closely with the client through the planning, delivery and review process to ensure a collaborative, creative relationship that meets their marketing objectives
A bit about you
Essential criteria for the role:
- Significant experience as an Art Director with experience directing food shoots for a retail/FMCG client.
- Customer publishing or agency-side experience delivering lifestyle content and design to a client brief, presenting ideas and liaising to director level. Able to communicate strategy, ideas and approach professionally, and inspire confidence in their judgement
- Proven and inspiring creative leader, able to unite a team to deliver a first-class publication. Proven ability to support colleagues by communicating clearly, offering useful advice and taking responsibility
- Energised by a fast-moving environment, able to prioritise, problem-solve and make good creative judgements under pressure
- Strong presenting skills and the ability to build client relationships.
- Experience of organising, booking and directing photoshoots is essential – preferably in the food sector.
- Thorough knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, Indesign, Photoshop and illustrator.
Other information
We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles.
We’re striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at [email protected].
Flexible and hybrid working
We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office.
Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year.
We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies.
Company benefits include
- Pension contribution matched to 5%
- Season ticket loan
- Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
- Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
- Social committee, regular in-house learning events
- 4x life assurance
Our values
We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world.
We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030.
To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we recently co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:
- Be kind
- Always curious
- Be the best we can be
Apply today to take the next step in your career with Our Media.
The closing date for this role is 05.05.2023, however, we may close the role before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: £50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol
