Product Retoucher

Established in 1952 and online since 1999, Childrensalon is a fast-growing, award-winning, forward-thinking retailer, specialising in dressing children beautifully.

Childrensalon believes there is beauty in diversity and difference, as resembled by our wonderful team. Our vision of being the most inclusive, diverse, and humane company is very important to us as is our culture of fairness, openness, and transparency. We are committed to the career progression and advancement of every team member as well as welcoming the best external talent in the industry. We offer a fun, challenging, collaborative, family-oriented work environment in our fast-paced and rapidly growing business and in turn will provide you with the opportunity to grow your career and make a difference.

Due to our growth, we are looking for a full-time Product Retoucher to join our fast-paced and creative production Studio.

You will be working **Monday to Friday 11.45am - 7.45pm** and every other Saturday **8am-4pm, with a day off in the week**.

We are looking for ambitious, passionate and motivated individuals to join our dynamic and talented team in our busy Tunbridge Wells Head Office.
You will provide the finishing touches to the product imagery before they are used across our E-commerce platforms, making sure the product is presented true to form and to the highest quality.

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensure colour consistency across all images, matching digital to physical samples and adjusting imagery from different cameras and settings
- Remove imperfections and unwanted details
- Adapt to new techniques and tools when introduced
- Crop and resize images to the required specifications for digital use
- Process, name, file and archive images consistently on our servers, following our requirements to allow easy file access
- Achieve daily and weekly targets and deadlines
- Communicate workflow and discuss any issues with the Studio Team Leaders and Seniors
- Take on board constructive comments and feedback on image correction
- Perform quality checks on all imagery before distribution to our network
- Continually check the live website for any photographic, retouching or styling errors to maintain Childrensalon’s high standards of image quality
- Stay up to date with industry trends and new technology
- When required you will be asked to help other teams within the Studio department

**Key Skills**:

- Highly skilled in Adobe Photoshop/Adobe Bridge
- Advanced knowledge and experience in photo shoot processes and image manipulation
- Excellent knowledge editing RAW images
- Strong proficiency in Mac OS
- Good experience of working with Wacom tablet and Pen
- Great skills of colour-management, colour-matching, and colour-correction
- A meticulous eye for detail, visual composition, and proportion
- Knowledge of web imagery and processes, appropriate dpi scale, pixel dimensions
- The ability to work towards multiple deadlines
- A positive, proactive, and assertive approach, being able to liaise with other departments
- Initiative, idea generation and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills, organisation, and time management skills
- The ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a team
- Creativity

**Desirable Skills**:

- Background in accurate colour correction using physical and digital swatches.
- Photography and studio lighting
- Good understanding of the requirements and pace of an e-commerce business.
- Experience in fashion and within the luxury brands

This role is based **at our Head Office in Tunbridge Wells**. Childrensalon offers a highly competitive salary, company pension plan, health plan, fully subsidised gym membership, company shuttle, generous holiday allowance and company discount

If you are interested and think you would thrive in this role, please send us your CV and covering letter about why you would like to work for us. Previous applicants need not apply.

**Salary**: £21,500.00-£24,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

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

**Experience**:

- Video editing: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location