Creative Artworker (1-year FTC) Manchester, England
Job description
About us
SMG is one of the most exciting growth companies in the UK today. Home to three award winning agencies, Capture, Lobster and Threefold. At SMG, our people are at the heart of everything we do and are our biggest asset. We are proud to provide opportunities for fast career growth, recognising and rewarding great work, and doing this within an inclusive, highly flexible, and innovative environment.
We are dedicated to support our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We’re have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised as 2nd in Best Companies marketing and media's best agencies to work for, and we’ve just received our 3 star accreditation from Best Companies, making us a World Class company to work for.
Across the group, we have a shared mission to lead connected commerce marketing.
Read a summary of what each of our agencies do here!
The role
We are looking for a Creative Artworker to join our artwork team in Manchester and London to help deliver artwork across Co-op's entire media estate, one of the UK's most famous retail brands. In this role, you'll produce print ready artwork and digital animation across an array of different media channels such as eCommerce banners and digital posters. You will be given responsibilities from day one which will play a part in helping the Co-op partnership flourish and evolve. This role can either be a full-time role or one for someone looking to work 4 days per week!
What you'll be doing
We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:
- Taking artwork briefs and being responsible for the time management, progress and overall quality of those projects, even under tight deadlines.
- Producing print ready artwork and uploading them onto printer servers with work codes as well as producing fully animated files for use in digital media.
- Ensuring Co-op's brand guidelines are always adhered to and working with account teams to deliver timely and high standard work that they need.
- Keeping our work platform Trello up to date and filing to a high standard.
What you'll need to have / be
- Demonstrable experience working as an Artworker in a fast-paced environment.
- The ability to follow a detailed process and work within strict brand templates, ensuring that brand guidelines are being respected.
- A portfolio of artwork examples produced for agencies or brands.
- Proficient and experienced in the use of Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.
- The ability to produce artwork across a range of digital and print touchpoints.
- Good organisational, design admin and layout skills with a keen eye for design and detail.
P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.
The best bits
Here at SMG we are dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...
Generous discretionary bonus scheme
️ £1,200 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions
£500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development
Free headspace subscription
4pm Friday finishes all year round
Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year
The process
- We will invite you to a first interview which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you're interested in working with us.
- There will be a second interview which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.
- We then invite you to a meet & greet which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you'll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.
Helping you shine
We are committed to helping you shine and show your full potential by making any changes you might need throughout your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role and its requirements, changes to be made to the way we hold our interviews, or anything else, then please reach out to us. You can either let us know on your application form or contact the people team to discuss how we can help on [email protected].
SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer
We are fully committed to providing equality in the workplace and ensure all opportunities for, and during employment, will be afforded to individuals fairly and irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation ("the protected characteristics"). We want our organisation to reflect the diversity of our communities and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. More information on what we are doing can be found here.
Our full data retention policy can be found here. Got questions? Take a look at our FAQ's here.
