Senior Creative Artworker (Linz)

Who are we?

Nice to meet you, we’re Indicia Worldwide. We are a global data and technology led marketing agency who work with some of the world’s biggest brands.

As a business, we draw on a rich heritage from the worlds of print, creative production, retail, data, digital, tech and creative, bringing these disciplines together to support global brands with their omnichannel marketing activation needs.

Indicia Worldwide is the product of three successful businesses, brought together by our parent company Konica Minolta in 2017. The vision was, and is, to create new value across the remit of marketing for our clients.

What you'll do:

The Senior Creative Artworker will be responsible for the overall brand guardianship, design application, project management, production of marketing campaigns and retailer communications for a major global brand, from straightforward design, to artwork origination and amendments, plus adaptation and versioning of existing signed-off designs.

Other functions will also include mentoring and guiding the local stakeholders and ensuring that the quality of the outputs is as expected and brand consistency maintained.

• To oversee, create, prepare and edit print-ready artwork across a range of media including generalprint collateral (brochures, flyers, etc), press ads, POS and all types of advertising displays, digital andsocial media assets, and much more.
• To ensure the integrity of the original concept and brief.
• To understand and work within brand and corporate guidelines.
• To produce retouching of images and photography to a good level.
• To understand and apply color management principles in daily tasks.
• To use your experience and knowledge to identify and resolve design, artwork and productionchallenges.
• To complete all personal administration, including timesheets, accurately and promptly.
• To understand the company’s quality control process and systems, employing a methodical approach.
• To provide the business with best value by estimating and managing timeaccurately, ensuring thatprojects are delivered on time, within budget and to the highest quality.

What you'll bring:

• Considerable experience as a design and production focused artworker, mainly with print items and renders.
• Extensive experience in loyally and accurately applying a design concept across a range of different media and formats.
• Agency, production agency and trade marketing experience preferred.
• Experience in dealing directly with clients is required.
• In-depth expertise of Adobe Creative Suite.
• Advanced 3D rendering skills to create POS items (FSDU, Display, Totems, etc.)
• High level of pre-press knowledge is a must.
• Video editing and motion graphics is a plus.
• General automated artwork production and template building experience.
• Familiarity with both agency and wider marketing technology systems such as DAM, ad deliveryplatforms, approval/sign off tools, and collaborative and production workflows.
  • Straightforward design, typographical and layout skills
• Pre-flight and proofing background.
• High understanding of print materials, die-cuts.
• Photoshop and image retouching skills
• Understanding of color management.
• Excellent core Microsoft computer skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Fluent in German and English.

The softer skills that we believe, will help you thrive in this role:

• A clear and effective communication skill at all levels in the hierarchy.
• A solution orientated and resolutive mindset, where problems are just the start lane for the solutions.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• A technology oriented mindset, as you will have to use different technologies in your daily job
• Being meticulous, and have a keen eye for detail, setting very high personal standard.
• Being proactive and positive, being motivated by the prospect of being challenged, always looking to make a positive impact.
  • Desire to take responsibility for continuous personal development and learning, helping to identify objectives and opportunities for skill development.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Strong workload organisation and time management skills.
• Ability to build relationships and to communicate effectively.

Role Requirements:

This role can be based on a hybrid basis (several times a week from the client office in Linz).

We are an equal opportunities employer and as such, will make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate the needs of all candidates. If you have any such needs or requirements in the context of your interview, please notify us so that we can make the appropriate arrangements.