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About the role

We have a brilliant opportunity for a Design Planner to join our in house studio team (Studio368) which forms part of our marketing operations function. We enable great work through simple, effective & collaborative ways of working, all driven by technology, process frameworks & efficiencies – to put it simply – WE MAKE IT HAPPEN!

The Studio368 Design Project Planner plays a central role in supporting & driving all design activity between the design team, Studio368 & external agencies.

You will be responsible for;

• Briefing design & artwork activity (using our internal project management system, Workfront) into Studio368 ensuring all information is present and accurate before a brief takes place
• Management of internal stakeholders to deliver results efficiently, collating feedback from all teams and effectively briefing amends to studio teams
• Working with our design experts to brief in activity and supporting on reprioritisation and monthly capacity planning where necessary
• Co-ordination & implementation of critical paths across design projects
• Supporting the Activity Planning Manager in regularly reviewing process to ensure efficiencies and improvements in ways of working
• Supporting the team on other artwork requirements when appropriate – we ensure all team members can flex across all areas, so that we can always support each other on the delivery of our business priorities
• Escalation of potential or high-risk issues to Activity Planning Manager
• Leading on weekly work in progress sessions and specific project actions meetings
• Daily reprioritisation to deliver business requirements, via planning future work in Workfront & communicating critical path commitments to stakeholder groups to keep all design & artwork deliverables on track
• Key to role is the ability to keep open lines of communication between design, POS and Studio368 stakeholders

About you:

• You are a team player, with solid communication skills & a strong, proven ability to engage & influence stakeholders – in a fast paced yet fun retail environment!
• You are a confident person with the ability to negotiate and do what is right for the customer
• You know when to escalate & have the capability to assess risks/determine priorities via organisation skills
• You are a forward thinker! You're able to think ahead and create the right plan
• You have a passion to constantly improve how we do things!
• You enjoy pulling reports, analysing data & producing recommendations to internal stakeholder groups, advising on where we could improve our ways of working
• You have a clear interest & understanding of best-in-class creative design

Your benefits:

If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is based at Asda House, Leeds with the opportunity to work from home 2-3 days per week

You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.