Graphic Designer

• Producing high quality product and product packaging design
• Working consistently within our brand guidelines producing work across all designs and ranges
• Developing new packaging solutions and designs whilst working alongside our buyers and suppliers
• To hit tight deadlines and plan ahead.

Your Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign).
• Excellent layout and typography skills
• Illustrative and printmaking capabilities
• Conceptual flair - an exceptional eye for quality and detail with the ability to challenge
• Working well under pressure and take a brief to completion
• Notable organisation and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to confidently present ideas to the wider team.

Disciplines:

Graphics, illustration, printmaking, branding, packaging, print, product, retail.

Experience:

• Graphic Design degree or Art College Diploma
• 2-3 years’ experience of professional design
• Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Cloud: (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign).

About you:

Positive, confident and passionate individual who is able to adapt easily when facing obstacles, enjoys a challenge such as new product/range launches on short timescales and thrives in a collaborative environment where sometimes pressure to perform can be intense, but the satisfaction of achievement is huge

Extremely organised individual and can manage their own time efficiently.

Applying:

Please apply with a recent CV and portfolio of design work.

Finally, the bit "About The Works"

We are people who do!

Here at The Works, we are building a working environment that’s fun, friendly, and supportive - all at the same time. It’s somewhere that’s designed for people who love getting busy, whether that’s helping customers, meeting new challenges, or building a rewarding career.

It’s a place for people who know how to roll their sleeves up, get creative, and put their passion and imagination to work…People who do!

We are the UK’s leading family friendly retailer of value gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery. With over 500 stores nationwide together with a brilliant online store, we’re here to offer our customers a unique and enjoyable shopping experience, built on our core principles of value, variety and quality. You will find our stores in a huge and diverse range of locations; on high streets, in shopping centres, on retail parks, and as concessions (usually in garden centres). We are also one of the few value retailers with a full featured online store that helps our customers to shop how they want, when they want, 7 days a week.

Oh....and we are super proud to be a Sunday Times 2020 Top 25 “Best Big Companies” to work for.

It all means that we have built the kind of working environment that is the perfect place for people who love our products to build a career. It is somewhere you can put your proud and passionate, inclusive and accessible, confident and honest, fun and creative, and nimble and driven approach to work.

And if you can roll up your sleeves, get on with any job, and meet any challenge, it’s also somewhere you can thrive.