Design & Visual Communications Assistant Manager London, England
Job description
M&S Food is changing, and fast! We are undergoing one of the biggest transformations in retailing today to build a bigger, better, fresher food business.
From Percy Pig to the freshest M&S Select Farms produce, we grow, source, and develop our own products to give our customers family-ready food that's unbeatable on flavour and innovation.
We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just food… This is M&S Food.
As a Design & Visual Communications Assistant Manager, you will be responsible for producing Food Guidelines and communications to allow stores to implement monthly phase initiatives.
Key Responsibilities and Measures
Visual Communication Design:
- Working and liaising with all stakeholders within the food business to collate and format information presented in the food guidelines
- Manage all content added into the communications to ensure its is not duplicated in other documents and is clear and concise for stores to understand.
- Be readily available for key stakeholders within the foods business should content need to be communicated to stores at any time on an ad hoc basis
- Designing of event communication pages in the guidelines - using event branding as well as business brand guidelines
- Progressing, refreshing and digitalising food guidelines and communications to ensure they are inspirational and revolutionary – Liaising with members of the technology solution teams with in IT infrastructure to understand business technology capabilities in head office and in store
- Support Point of Sale design and production/Planning teams with document alignment (POS Checklist front covers)
3D Design:
- A good understanding of 3D design and visualisation (preferably Trimble SketchUp + Vray render) – providing 3D renders for guidelines
- Working with packaging teams and/or online food graphics system to ensure all packaging within the 3D product library is current and up to date
Key Skills
- Strong Communications Skills
- Strong Graphic Design skills – proficient in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
- Strong understanding of Design principles
- Understanding of Visual Merchandising
- Knowledge of 3D modelling and rendering systems – remaining up to date on new technologies and capabilities (SketchUp is preferable)
- Versatility and resilience to work in a fast and highly demanding retail environment
- Adaptable to change
- Team player with strong collaboration skills
- Adobe Creative Cloud suite – Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
- Trimble Sketchup
- V-Ray Render program + add ons
- Microsoft office
M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.
We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.
If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.
