Senior Creative Designer

4 weeks ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Our Media Full time

**Creative Design Lead, Nature Portfolio, up to £35,000 - £42,000**

**Company Description**

Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We're home to market-leading brands in nature, cycling, science and nature, homes and music.

We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content - in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, YourHome, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus.

**Position**

This is a new role to ensure one design lead, the Creative Design Lead (CDL) can shape and oversee the overall design and design process for the Nature Portfolio. The CDL will be responsible for right-sizing the art requirements for the resource available to produce the best quality magazines and digital assets possible. Comfortable managing budgets and making changes to existing ways of working, the CDL will lend their creativity, enthusiasm, and expertise to all brands. Along with the Creative Designer, the CDL will be responsible for the day-to-day design and production of nature magazines as well as requests as required for digital assets.

The CDL should have outstanding communication skills and the ability to multi-task and be extremely organised, is essential. A problem-solving and positive approach will be essential, and you will need to be laser-focused on process while understanding the needs of our audience. With management responsibility for the Creative Designer in your group, you will prioritise work for you both around very tight deadlines and to high standards.

For a full list of responsibilities & requirements, please see the job description on our website.

**Requirements**:
Essential:

- Previous experience as an Art Editor (or similar) with the ability to create beautiful, inspiring page layouts, preferably on a nature title with a strong track record of initiating creative design solutions to give competitive advantage.
- First-rate accuracy, quality and consistency of work and attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise work according to tight deadlines.
- The ability to assess and address workflow bottlenecks and processes and looking for continual improvement.

Preferred:

- Management and leadership skills plus the ability to help develop and train members of the team
- Experience of styling/directing photoshoots using models
- Knowledge and/or experience to assist the teams in video creation
- An interest in the natural world and an understanding of the national conversation around conservation, nature, and wildlife
- A UK driving licence.

**Other information**

**Flexible and hybrid working**

We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office.

Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year.

We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies.

**Company benefits include**
- Pension contribution matched to 5%
- Season ticket loan
- Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
- Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
- Social committee, regular in-house learning events
- 4x life assurance

**Our values**

We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world.

We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030.

To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we recently co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:

- Be kind
- Always curious
- Be the best we can be

**Salary**: £35,000.00-£42,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sabbatical
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bristol: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol


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