Graphic Designer

Here at **Graham & Brown**, we are looking for a creative and motivated **Graphic Designer **to join the team at our Design & Marketing Centre in **Blackburn**. You will join us on a **full-time, temporary basis to cover aone year period of maternity leave **and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of **£20,758 to £25,947 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. The Graham and Brown brand’s growing interiors offer stretches across categories from wallpaper, murals, paint, fabric, bed linen and more. We are committedto creating contemporary, leading-edge design, across our international markets, and we 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**:

- Flexi-time working
- A flexible working environment with the option of some home working if preferred
- Generous staff discount on all Graham & Brown products, up to 60%
- Generous pension, totalling 10%
- Free car parking

In addition, you will benefit from a thorough induction programme, a collaborative culture and a friendly working environment.

**About the role**:
We are looking for an experienced **Graphic Designer** who can create and maintain the visual representation of our brands across web, social, packaging, store design / point of sale, and sales channels.

**Your key responsibilities as our Graphic Designerwill include**:

- Preparing accurate and inspirational assets for various decorating and home furnishing products, through manipulation of digital and photographic imagery.
- Design and layout of artwork for a varied mix of digital advertising and campaign briefs.
- Assisting with creation and editing of short form video content for social media and digital advertising, ownership of brand graphics.
- Creatively interpreting style guidelines for various brands and working with stakeholders both internal and external to ensure consistency between different brand touch points.
- Designing beautiful editorial layouts and manipulating lifestyle imagery in response to PR requests and outreach plans.
- 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.
- Experience or strong willingness to learn After Effects and motion graphics techniques.
- Strong image manipulation and retouching skills or a willingness to learn quickly.
- Experience in a graphic design role, with portfolio of work demonstrating a variety of skills and styles.
- A proactive attitude to learning new skills.
- 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.
- Ability to take instruction well and understand a brief, identifying where more information may be needed.
- 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.

**Additional Interests and Knowledge**:

- Experience or interest in motion graphics and basic video editing is highly 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 will need the 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 our **Graphic Designer -** we’d love to hear from you