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Location

Wakefield, West Yorkshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job Introduction

This is a fantastic opportunity for skilled Artworker to join a new team of brand creatives. This team will be instrumental in helping us to celebrate all life’s moments with our colleagues, customers, and Partners.

As one of the top five best big companies to work for, we are committed to progressing our creative ambition and believe that this new team will help us achieve that. The Artworker will support the Senior Creative Designer and Content Designer with creative projects for both online & offline media.

This role is integral to supporting our evolving brand by updating our existing assets as well as developing new ones to support our brand, communications and colleague engagement.

If you are a talented, innovative Artworker, inspired to create high quality channel ready artwork –then we want to hear from you!

We operate smart working principles at cardfactory, combining some days working from our support centre in Wakefield (1-2 a week) with some days working remotely from home.

Role Responsibility

• Reporting into the Senior Creative Designer to create both internal and external brand assets and communications.
• Working with colleagues across the business on briefs as well as working alongside our creative agencies to further develop our creative concepts and bring them to life with our customers.
• Work on in-store POS, marketing campaigns, colleague communications, packaging and more.
• Handling image and copy with a keen attention to detail.
• Create high quality channel ready artwork across a range of media.
• Maintaining the integrity of the brand guidelines on all finished outputs.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet required deadlines.
• Checking artwork on a technical level and taking in to consideration how will work with finished products eg cutter guides, colour proofing, preparing for print and supplier specifications.
• Ensure jobs are stored and filed on the network within company guidelines.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience working on and understanding creative designs for retail & digital channels.
• Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• The ability to work both on team and solo projects confidently.
• Ability to communicate with agencies and colleagues on all levels.
• Have a positive and energetic ‘can do’ attitude, as a real collaborative team player.
• Strong time management skills.
• Previous experience of print processes and their variants.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.

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About the Company

Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland.  In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer.  This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey. 

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

Benefits

• Pension
• 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
• Save As You Earn scheme
• Financial Wellbeing Support
  • Financial Education Tools
  • Salary Advance
• Seasonal incentive schemes
• Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
• Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
• Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave

This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.

For any questions email: [email protected] (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.

No agencies, please.

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