Brand Assistant
7 months ago
As a Brand Assistant, you’ll play an incredibly important role in the product launch process. Working closely with several Buying Teams, you’ll work with a roster of agencies to create our own label packaging.
This involves managing the Critical Path of circa 200 project lines, through liaising with our supply base, internal departments, and external agencies. From writing strong design and artwork briefs, to reviewing the creative output, and presenting updates to our Buying Teams, you’ll effectively manage the total design to print process.
Obviously, you’ll need to be well organised and a good communicator, with an eye for detail and a creative flair. That may sound like a lot but, in return, you’ll enjoy the chance to put forward your ideas and influence our packaging processes. Being in the Brand Team is exciting, creative, and fun. You’ll love seeing the finished product on shelf in our stores.
We do things our own way at Aldi. But whatever we’re doing, we must be getting it right. With a wave of impressive sales figures behind us, we’re opening new stores at lightning speed. It’s more important than ever that we’re keeping on top of changing trends and that our packaging is looking it’s best in our customer’s baskets.
Our Brand Team has to move quickly and efficiently, in synergy with our Buying Teams, to support speed to shelf for our products. On as 12-month Fixed Term Contract as a Brand Assistant you’ll get involved with all aspects of the design to print process. From briefing our agencies, reviewing designs, ensuring range consistency and brand guardianship, and managing multiple, ever changing, critical paths. The process well and truly starts with you.
**Your New Role**:
- Managing the design to print process for a set of retail categories.
- Ensuring packaging designs and artwork follow approved brand guidelines
- Creating cost estimates based on approved rate card
- Putting together critical paths and managing timelines of all stakeholders
- Resolving delays
- The daily upkeep of the Aldi Product Portal
- Status reporting
- Attending weekly Buying Director meetings
- Pre-production of meetings
- Completing Competitor analysis
- Liaising with all stakeholders to ensure projects are kept on track
- Monthly agency KPI reviews
- Brand training (internal/external)
- Identifying cost saving opportunities
- Briefing artwork and design for all packaging product roll out
- Management of packaging design approvals
- Helping implement new systems and processes to improve speed to shelf
**About You**:
- Experience within a buying role with critical path responsibilities or experience of working for a packaging agency, specialising in packaging design to print
- Strong organisational skills
- A good understanding of the retail pack change process
- Experience of managing a project using critical path management
- A strong communicator, both verbal and written
- Has a creative mindset
- Strong analytical skills
**What You’ll Get in Return**:
- Salary starting from £34,690 rising to £40,510
- 12-month Fixed Term Contract
- Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm, with the opportunity of 2 days a week remote working
- 5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- In office flexi-time
- Full training provided
- Pension scheme
- Private employee medical insurance after 4 years
- Company sick pay scheme
- Company maternity, paternity and adoption leave pay after 2 years
- Long service rewards
- Access to MyBenefits, where you can find a wide range of benefits, including our bike to work scheme, shopping and cinema discounts, health cash plan, a FREE will, travel and discounted gym memberships, as well as a host of benefits to support your financial and wellbeing needs.
- Access to a free,24/7, confidential virtual GP service for all Aldi Colleagues and their children (under the age of 16
Aldi is an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce and are dedicated to promoting a culture of inclusion, providing an environment in which collaboration, respect and fairness are essential. We value diversity and are dedicated to treating all of our colleagues and prospective colleagues fairly and with respect
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