Graphic Designer

Here at **Graham & Brown,**we are looking for a creative and reliable **Graphic Designer**to join our team in **Blackburn.** You will join us on a **full time, permanent**basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of**£19,959 -£24,949 per annum, plus a great range of benefits**

**Graham & Brown**has had design and colour at the heart of our business for over 75 years. With leading brands such as Superfresco Easy and the Graham & Brown brand itself, our offer stretches across categories from wallpaper, paint, fabricand wall art. We are committed to contemporary, leading edge design, across our international markets, and put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We have been recognised as a “Cool Brand” on seven successive occasions.

**We offer a range of excellent benefits, including**:

- Life assurance
- Generous pension
- Free on-site parking
- A generous staff discount on all Graham & Brown products
- Staff canteen
- Collaborative culture

As our **Graphic Designer,** you will create and maintain the visual representation of our brands across store design, point of sale, online, social, photography and sales channels.

**Your responsibilities as our Graphic Designer will include**:

- Preparing assets representing our various product types and categories to our customers in an accurate and inspirational way, through manipulation of digital and photographic imagery
- Design and layout of artwork for a varied mix of digital advertising and campaign briefs, working to the relevant brand style guidelines and ensuring the look & feel and message is appropriate to the target customer
- Creatively interpreting style guidelines for various brands and working with stakeholders both internal and external to create consistency between different brand touchpoints
- Designing beautiful editorial layouts and manipulating lifestyle imagery in response to incoming briefs from our PR agencies, playing a vital role in engaging our target markets
- Supporting our retail partners in improving their instore and webstore environments in order to maximise sales, through designed collateral as well as merchandising layout concepts
- Working with internal and external printers to ensure physical collateral is beautifully delivered
- Supporting the efficiency of our business by ensuring assets and artwork templates are filed correctly and made available to all relevant teams both internal and external

**What we are looking for in our Graphic Designer**:

- Strong competence of Adobe Creative Cloud software, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Strong image manipulation and retouching skills or a willingness to learn quickly
- Experience of retail design would be of benefit to the role
- Experience in a graphic design role, with a portfolio of work demonstrating a variety of skills
- A proactive attitude to learning new skills, both autonomously and with support from colleagues
- Experience of exporting artwork for different mediums, including web and print
- Self-motivated, helpful in nature and able to work independently on your own initiative
- The ability to take instruction well and understand a brief, identifying where more information may be needed
- The ability to take feedback and implement amends in a timely fashion
- An enthusiastic and outgoing personality, with the confidence and ability to articulate your ideas
- Working knowledge of MS Office software and platforms
- Excellent attention to detail

**Additional Interests and Knowledge include**:

- Experience or interest in motion graphics and basic video editing is desirable
- Basic photography skills would be of benefit to the role
- Experience or interest in the home interiors market
- Experience or interest in designing retail POS/visual merchandising
- An interest in brand identity theory
- An interest in design trends

Great project management skills are essential as our business is fast-paced. As well as progressing multiple ongoing projects, you will be responding to ad-hoc requests that require a quick turnaround, as is the nature of brand building and PR.

You’ll also need an ability to communicate well as part of an open and honest culture; working with stakeholders to develop briefs, providing regular progress updates and managing expectations.

If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, click **‘Apply’**now to be considered as our **Graphic Designer,**we’d love to hear from you