Designer

Pets at Home; Greater Manchester, Cheadle; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company seeks a talented designer to join their creative team, delivering exceptional marketing materials and maintaining brand identity. This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment, collaborating with various teams to create impactful designs for both digital and print platforms. With a focus on creativity and attention to detail, you'll be responsible for end-to-end content creation while keeping up with the latest design trends. If you're passionate about design and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Qualifications

• 3+ years of design experience, preferably in an agency.
• Strong portfolio showcasing design and concept work.
• Confident in presenting and pitching creative ideas.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality design assets across digital and print.
• Develop visual concepts and creative campaign strategies.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Design Experience

Adobe Creative Suite

Collaboration Skills

Attention to Detail

Problem-Solving Skills

Creativity

Digital Marketing Trends

Copywriting Skills

Tools

Figma

Monday.com

CMS

Job description

Permanent role, full time, 39 hours a week

Hybrid working between home and office (Handforth) (office days Tuesday and Wednesday)

Salary: £30-35k per annum (depending on experience) + benefits

Reporting: Senior Creative Designer

About the Role

Our design team are the creative hub of the Pets business – tasked with creating exceptional design and creative work for our channels while maintaining a consistent visual identity for our brands including Pets, Pets at Home and Vets for Pets. The role will be required to create various marketing materials like POS, social media and email, as well as online banners for our website and app. You will need to be a self-starter who thrives on a fast-paced creative environment and have strong collaboration skills to work with internal teams, including marketing, social, online, vets, and product development, to understand their needs and create effective designs and campaigns.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, on-brand design assets across digital and print
• Develop visual concepts and creative campaign strategies
• Take ownership of end-to-end content creation, from ideation to execution
• Be happy to work with external agencies and studio to develop outstanding
• Proactive mindset with positive attitude
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment, ability to manage multiple projects and hit deadlines
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to push boundaries on creativity, whether through technology or production methods
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including marketing, creative, studio and online to ensure brand alignment and synergy, foster a collaborative and positive work environment.

Experience, knowledge and expertise required:

• 3+ years of design experience (preferably agency)
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Figma (Desirable)
• Monday.com and workflow tools
• Ability to work into CMS and deliver website banners
• A strong and varied portfolio showcasing design, concept and (preferably) copy work
• Confident in presenting and pitching ideas and creative concepts
• Excellent understanding of design principles, typography, art direction and colour theory.
• Experience designing for a broad range of on and offline platforms
• Bonus points for motion design/video editing experience
• (Desirable) copywriting skills with a sharp eye for tone and detail
• Familiarity with digital marketing trends and best practices.
• Knowledge of brand development and maintaining brand consistency across digital platforms

We will also expect you to keep up to date with the latest design trends and technologies, including how we start to move into the world of generative AI.

If it sounds like you, please apply! Make sure you submit your portfolio as a part of your applications (PDF, PP, Link - any format will do). Applications without a portfolio won't be shortlisted.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!

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