Junior Designer

Damart; Bingley; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in senior lifestyle products is looking for a Designer to join their Commercial Publications Team in Bingley. This permanent, full-time, hybrid role focuses on optimizing sales through design and production of publications, requiring strong visual skills and knowledge of Adobe tools. Candidates should have experience in a design agency or in-house team.

Benefits

23 Days holidays + 8 Bank Holidays annually

Auto Enrolment Damart UK Personal Pension Scheme

Death In Service benefit

Free onsite parking

Subsidised onsite canteen

50% Damart colleague discount

Access to 24/7 GP service

Development opportunities through apprenticeship schemes

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a design role within an agency or in-house team.
• Ability to take a brief through to final artwork efficiently.
• Experience in mail order design preferred.

Responsibilities

• Produce design ideas and solutions for product presentations.
• Create catalogue page concepts, layouts, and finished artwork.
• Collaborate with Commercial Range Teams for final artwork.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Education

Graphic/creative qualifications at HND/Degree level

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

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If you would like to work for one of Europe’s biggest senior lifestyle brands, look no further than Damart. We are a leading provider of fashion, footwear and home & garden products aimed at the senior customer market. Damart can be found in the UK, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg, distributing products to over 10million customers worldwide.

We are passionate about our customers and our excellent reputation stems from the key benefits we offer our customers – outstanding value for money, excellent customer service, speedy delivery and comfortable, stylish clothing. When you join us, you’ll be joining a company that’s focused on putting the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Job Overview:

This is a permanent, full time position (36.5 hours per week) working hybrid Monday & Friday from home and Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday from the Bingley office.

Joining the Commercial Publications Team and reporting to the Design Manager, your core activities will see you responsible for optimising sales through the design and production of artwork for all Damart UK publications in line with brand strategy.

To be successful in this role you will have design experience and good visualising, layout ability. You will have the capability of taking a creative brief through to final artwork, completing work which is time critical and quality conscious.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce design ideas and solutions to enhance product presentation in line with brand strategy
• Contribute with ideas on promoting our products and pages
• Able to produce catalogue page concepts, layouts and finished artwork
• Work alongside Commercial Range Teams to finalise artwork
• Commercially aware of business trends, design models and product presentation
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Able to meet to deadlines

Skills and Experience:

The ideal candidate will have previous industry experience of working within a Design Agency or an In-house Design Team, ideally within a Mail Order environment.

Graphic/creative qualifications at HND/Degree level or equivalent.

Full working knowledge of Adobe InDesign and a high proficiency of Photoshop and Illustrator (critical for the role).

Good organisational and communication skills.

Rewards package also includes:

• 23 Days holidays + 8 Bank Holidays annually

• Auto Enrolment Damart UK Personal Pension Scheme

• Peace of mind benefit "Death In Service"

Other Benefits:

• A hybrid role, working from home Monday and Friday with the rest of the week based at our UK head office in the centre of Bingley near Bradford
• Free onsite parking, and within 5 minutes' walk of Bingley train station
• Subsidised onsite canteen
• 50% Damart colleague discount & other retail discounts
• 31 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Auto enrolment company pension
• Retail discounts & 20% off EE
• Salary sacrifice such as cycle to work, electronic vehicle leasing and buy & sell holidays
• Access to 24/7 GP service through our Employee Assistance Programme
• Development opportunities through apprenticeship schemes