Middleweight Graphic Designer, FTSE100/Retail, Herts, to £30k

Position: Middleweight Graphic Designer
Location: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (commutable from North London, 25 mins from Kings Cross train station).
Salary: £25-30k basic
Benefits: To include 5 weeks holiday, private medical insurance, pension scheme and profit share scheme

COMPANY:
Our client is a rapidly growing truly multi-channel business within their parent group, serving thousands of customers daily nationwide via store, phone and website from a wide range of non food product categories.

ROLE:
Working in the Dotcom Marketing Team under the direction of the Senior Designer, the Mid-Weight Designer is a fresh creative thinker who pulls on their experience and creative knowledge to produce clean and fresh design concepts within the Tesco brand guidelines. Representing the team in key planning and development meetings, working with the Senior Designer and Design Manager to develop the overall customer journey. Strong communication skills and strong corporate design knowledge is essential.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
a) Develop your influencing style, taking colleagues and clients on a full journey with you offering a consultative service.
b) Representing Design in key planning meetings when required (i.e. Brand Comms).
c) To produce clean and fresh design solutions within the Tesco brand.
d) To offer a consultation service for all new Tesco pages and sites.
e) Manage own workload within specified timescales and assist the Design Manager in ensuring the overall team resource is managed.
f) To look outside the Tesco guidelines, researching competitive sites to ensure Tesco designs are fresh and forward thinking for customers.
g) Share knowledge and experience across the Design team, providing junior members with technical and creative advice.
h) Support the Senior Designer in all creative projects, prioritising workload and liaising with the design manager to utilise the team’s resource and deliver key projects on time.

KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:
a) Advanced knowledge of web design with a formal design qualification.
b) Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with people from all disciplines, both within and outside of the design team.
c) Ability to demonstrate strong problem solving skills.
d) A deep understanding of branding and marketing.
e) Ability and willingness to learn new techniques.
f) Ability to mentor others in the team.
g) High degree of competence in adobe graphic design products, Good knowledge of InDesign and Macromedia Flash.
h) Ability to articulate and present thoughts and creative ideas.
i) Ability to multitask and work efficiently under pressure with careful attention to detail.
j) An understanding of how a web site works including HTML and CSS code.
k) Passion for design and eagerness to collaborate with other creative people.
l) Team player – with a “can-do” attitude.
m) Strong understanding of accessibility guidelines.
n) Expert in colour theory and page layout techniques.
o) Good knowledge of how photography can be enhanced on the web.

You may have experience of the following: Middleweight Designer, Middleweight Graphic Designer, Creative Designer, New Media Designer, Web Designer, Marketing Communications Designer, etc.

This vacancy is being advertised by EasyWebRecruitment.com, the UK’s leading Flat Fee Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by EasyWebRecruitment.com are those of an employment agency. Ref: EWR

No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role.