Senior Photographer

**About the opportunity**:
The Senior Photographer is instrumental in driving sales through producing hi-end in-house visual assets for both the Marketing and Design teams. This role focuses on creative cross-category lifestyle photography showcasing new and existing ranges to the customer via media, including print, digital, and video production across various platforms.

Reporting directly to the Design, Studio and Packaging Controller, the Senior Photographer manages the set-up of lifestyle shoots, captures imagery, and ensures post-production and re-touching are completed per the brief provided.

You will work alongside designers and artworkers, providing consistent imagery for packaging that elevates the brand and communicates products to the customer. This role will provide flexible working between our Customer Support Centre in Walsall and remote working.

**What you'll be doing...**:

- Lead a studio and work as part of a busy, fast, passed design team to meet all deadlines.
- Manage the set-up of lifestyle shoots, capturing imagery and ensuring post-production and re-touching is completed per the brief provided.
- Work alongside the Marketing team to produce cross-category lifestyle photography showcasing new and existing ranges to the customer via media, including print, digital, and video production.
- Responsible for all the imagery produced by the photography studio.
- Focuses on creative cross-category lifestyle photography, including lifestyle interiors and model photography. Showcasing new and existing ranges to the customer via media, including print, digital, and video production.
- Creative lifestyle photography and high-end re-touching for the Christmas look book.
- Works alongside designers and artworkers, providing consistent Hi-end imagery for packaging that elevate the brand and communicate products to the customer.
- Support the Design, Studio & Packaging Controller with finding new talent and new ways of working to deliver world-class photography and identifying in-house capabilities and opportunities to continue to involve the excellence of the Design & Packaging team.
- Manage the studio spaces and maintain the equipment used in the CSC, on location and in the Wolverhampton studios.

**What you'll need...**:
**Skills**:

- Creative Digital photography covering product, lifestyle and model
- Creative Studio lighting for product, interiors, lifestyle and model photography
- Creative Image Retouching using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom
- Digital video production
- Digital video editing using premiere pro/final cut
- Highly Organised
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills to forge positive working relationships
- Leadership & people management skills

**Experience**
- Five years working full-time in a commercial studio as a product and lifestyle photographer.
- At least two years of professional image retouching experience.
- Experience leading and managing photographers in a busy high-volume design team environment.
- Experience in managing multiple projects and deadlines.

**What we can offer...**:

- Competitive salary
- Potential to earn bonus
- Free on-site car park
- Onsite coffee lounge
- Discount Card - 10% discount on most purchases in store including PEP&CO
- Family Friendly Benefits
- Loyal Service Awards
- My Staff Shop - exclusive discount portal
- Apprenticeships & Career Development
- Life Assurance Cover
- Health & Wellbeing - employee assistance programme to support you
- Holiday Allowance - increasing by one day per year (up to 33 days), along with the option to purchase additional holiday (annually)
- Pension
- Birthdays are important, so each year, you can take the day off as an extra day’s holiday

**About us...**:
From one store in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990 to more than 850 across the UK and the Republic of Ireland today, Poundland & Dealz has developed a reputation for offering top brands and quality own-brand products at an amazing value. We sell everything from food and drink to DIY, pet products to stationery, not forgetting our very own fashion brand, PEP&CO. We have recently invested £45 million in the business, opened new stores and revamped existing ones. We’re on an exciting journey, and you can be a part of it.

We’re part of a much larger group in Europe called Pepco which has 3,000 stores in 17 territories serving 50 million shoppers, and the size of our business means there are so many opportunities for you to come and join us. From our retail stores to our support and distribution centres, everywhere you see Poundland and Dealz, you’ll find passionate and knowledgeable colleagues delivering amazing service to our customers. Once you’re part of our family, we’ll give you everything you need to be the best you can be, from training to coaching and mentoring. Our seven core values and seven leadership principles steer how we do business. They give us the building blocks to create a culture where everybody thrives, and sustainabi