Senior Graphic Designer Urmston, England
Job description
Are you driven and ambitious, with a strong sense of creative and commercial design.
Have an eye for detail and a strong sense of implementing a consistent brand look and feel through every touch point?
Looking for a role where you can drive the visual identity of a brand through creative concepts and commercial solutions to the retail and digital environments. The role will be able to deliver brilliant conceptual and commercial ideas to the table to help drive brand growth and challenge current brand perceptions.
If so, we have an opportunity for a Senior Graphic Designer to join our Craghoppers Marketing team here at Basecamp in Urmston, Manchester.
This role work across teams, so excellent communication skills are a must. The role will work from concept inception through to concept delivery, cover all aspects and touch points. The right candidate will have excellent knowledge of adobe creative suite and be able to demonstrate a dynamic skill set.
A knowledge of print, retail space and social executions is a must. A knowledge of photography, image creation & visual story telling is advantageous. This is a fast-paced environment, so the candidate needs to be highly motivated and able to work on multiple projects at once.
This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape the look & feel of the brand with opportunity for promotion to creative lead in the future. An interest in the outdoors is advantageous.
The Impact you will have in this role is:
- A consistent, confident brand visual identity delivered for the brand.
- Thoroughly researched concepts and ideas for seasonal campaigns that successfully solve commercial challenges and are able to be used by the wider teams through deliverable assets.
- Concepts and visual identity brought to life, through work with external agencies
- Confidently delivered presentations to senior stakeholders with successful sell-in of ideas
- Well managed projects delivered in a timely manner and within budget
- A variety of assets produced, ranging from windows, POS, campaign visuals, sales materials, social assets and branding collateral and more
- Ownership of the brand’s visual output, ensuring a systematic management of all files and projects.
- An inspired wider team, with consistent and engaging creative output across all touchpoints in the user journey
- All graphic and graphic related content for the brand delivered on time
As our future Senior Graphic Designer, you will:
- Strong typographic sense and a thorough knowledge of graphic design, branding/marketing and content production.
- Understanding of retail space and print execution
- Excellent research and presentation methods
- Strong knowledge of digital and print best practices/guidelines
- Digital photography and studio lighting knowledge ideal but not essential
- Can manage own workload and that of the artworker and any additional freelance/ad hoc teams and agencies.
- Work with foresight to navigate through business challenges and unexpected problems to ensure success; be solutions-oriented and a creative problem solver.
- Be able to measure project success beyond delivery; working with the Marketing, web and Sales teams to proactively seek out feedback and results.
- Be adaptable, able to work quickly and respond rapidly to the changing retail environment.
- Have a strong eye for visual design, composition, image creation; with an uncompromising attention to detail and precision
Systems Knowledge
- Expert competency with Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Photoshop, Illustrator and, InDesign
- Knowledge of video and motion software would be a benefit but not essential (Motion graphics, animation, film etc)
We can offer you:
- Discretionary profit share bonus
- Pension
- Staff discounts
- Access to company benefits website
- 24 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
- An extra day of annual leave for every 3 years' service up to an additional 3
- Birthday hours
- Company walks
- State of the art Head Office
- A paid day off for volunteering
- Free parking
- Subsidised canteen and Starbucks
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Fitness suite with options including Yoga and Bootcamp classes
- Shower facilities including hairdryers and GHD straighteners
Our Regatta Family:
The Regatta Group supplies quality outdoor clothing and accessories through our 3 great brands - Regatta, Craghoppers and Dare2b - whether exploring the Amazon rainforest, walking your dog in the local park or cycling the Tour de France, we have what you need.
It’s a friendly, supportive family business – a place where bakers, dog walkers, book worms, students, parents, travellers, movie buffs, foodies, festival goers, musicians and more come together to create experiences consumers really appreciate.
The thing we all have in common, is that we share the same core values of Great Relationships and Entrepreneurial Spirit.
Our investment in the environment:
Sustainability is at the core of everything we do, and you will have the opportunity to support our Group wide sustainability committee and put ideas into action and really make a difference to the world we live in!
If this sounds like the role for you, please don’t hesitate to apply now.
