Position Title: Junior Designer/Artworker
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Frome Somerset
Working Hours: Full-time, Monday–Friday, 8.30AM–5PM
Salary: £23,000 per annum
Role summary
We are seeking a detail-oriented Junior Designer/Artworker to join our team on a permanent, office-based basis. This role is ideal for someone with a passion for design and retouching, excellent organisational skills, and the ability to multitask. You will support the creative team with design projects and artwork production, while assisting with administrative tasks to ensure everything runs smoothly.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone eager to learn, enthusiastic, and ready to grow their career in design while developing key organisational and teamwork skills.
Responsibilities
* Create animated digital assets for social media, emails, and marketing campaigns
* Design assets for online promotions, recruitment, inserts, and flyers
* Contribute ideas for marketing campaigns
* Assist with book edits for catalogues and bouncebacks
* Retouch and colour-match raw images from photoshoots
* Maintain the image library, including labelling, processing, and organising all images
* Ensure all photography files are named correctly
* Batch-process and file images
* Upload and manage product imagery on the Cox & Cox website and press image library
* Adjust aspect ratios and batch imagery for marketplace sites
* Respond to design briefs for new products
* Rename, check, and edit cutouts
* Handle press image requests
* Design and maintain graphics and imagery for website banners, the Style Notes blog, emails, social media, and paid social content
* Ensure consistency with brand guidelines and house style
* Liaise with printers and external suppliers
Skills & Experience
* A degree and/or equivalent in-house or agency experience in a similar artworking role
* Excellent Photoshop skills, including image retouching and manipulation
* A strong portfolio showcasing print and digital artwork across various customer touchpoints, including image retouching, creative digital assets, and web banners
* Meticulous attention to detail with the ability to produce beautiful artwork under tight deadlines, while staying calm and focused
* Strong written and verbal communication skills
* A positive, proactive, and collaborative attitude
* Understanding of After Effects and video is a plus
* Strong time management skills and the ability to handle a varied workload
Environment
* Work as part of an in-house design team
* Prepared to work in a fast-paced environment and have the ability to adapt to change
* Self-starter with good use of initiative and motivated to deliver results
* A keen interest in homewares and interior design
Benefits
* Be part of an exciting, growing and progressive company where thoughts and opinions are listened to
* 37.5 hour working week Monday - Friday 8.30 - 5pm with one hour for lunch
* Generous staff discounts
* 25 days annual leave per year + bank holidays
* Bonus birthday day off
* Pension scheme
* Private health care scheme
Please include your portfolio with your application.