Assistant Designer

Sainsbury's; Coventry; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pensions

Life cover

Flexible working

Holiday allowance

Job summary

Argos is seeking an Assistant Designer to support the delivery of inspirational designs across seasonal ranges. You’ll assist Designers with concept, colour and trend boards, briefs and documentation, while managing samples, files and supplier communications.

You should have a creative degree or equivalent experience and be proficient in Photoshop/Illustrator, with good collaboration and organizational skills to thrive in a busy design team.

Qualifications

• Portfolio showing relevant design work (colour, trend, artwork, concept)
• Proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator for briefs, artwork and presentations
• Clear written and verbal communication with cross-functional teams
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage design administration

Responsibilities

• Help deliver inspirational designs across seasonal ranges
• Assist Designers with concept, colour and trend boards and briefs
• Maintain design files, artwork files and specification documents
• Liaise with Designers, Buyers, suppliers and product teams; support for selection and trading meetings

Skills

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Portfolio

Cross-functional collaboration

Design administration

Education

Creative industries degree or equivalent design experience

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Job description

At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation , you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.

About The Team

Our General Merchandise Design team plays a key role in shaping original, commercial and customer-focused ranges for Argos and Habitat. Working closely with Designers, Senior Designers, Buyers, Technologists, suppliers and product development teams, the team brings together trend insight, creativity and commercial thinking to create products that support our category vision and deliver newness for our customers.

More About The Role

As an Assistant Designer, you’ll support the delivery of inspirational designs across seasonal ranges, helping the team bring product ideas to life from research & concept through to supplier briefing and key range meetings. You’ll assist Designers and Senior Designers with concept, colour and trend boards, project briefs, design specifications, artwork files and presentation materials, while keeping design administration organised and on track.

Day to day, you’ll manage bought samples and material swatches, maintain design and artwork files, update colour/theme/trend and bay boards, and support preparation for selection, sign-off, review and trading meetings. You’ll also liaise with Designers, Buyers, suppliers, external designers and Product Development teams where required, as well as carrying out competitor and trend research through store visits, trade fairs, press shows and online inspiration.

More About You

You’ll bring a creative eye, strong organisation and a practical approach to supporting a busy design team. You’ll be confident using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to help create briefs, artwork, palettes or presentation materials, and you’ll be comfortable keeping files, boards, samples and design specifications accurate and up to date.

You’ll be a clear communicator who enjoys working collaboratively with a broad range of stakeholders, while also being able to manage your own tasks and deadlines. A relevant creative industries degree or equivalent design experience is important, and you’ll be able to share a portfolio that demonstrates your design capability. Experience in a design studio and/or 3D software would be beneficial, but not essential.

Essential Criteria

• Able to provide a portfolio showing relevant design work, including examples of colour, trend, artwork, concept or product design development
• Able to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create or support product briefs, artwork, palettes, boards or design specifications
• Able to use Microsoft Outlook and Word to manage communication, documents and design administration accurately
• Able to work collaboratively with Designers, Buyers, suppliers or cross-functional teams, with clear written and verbal communication
• Able to organise workload and deliver design support activities, such as sample management, board updates, design files or supplier specs, in line with agreed deadlines or critical path milestones

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new-whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.