An exciting opportunity to join the UK's leading entertainment marketing and advertising agency.
Creative Services | Creative Artworker
Reports to: Creative Services Operations Manager
Position Objectives
- Delivering the highest levels of creative production art
- Take ownership of art and brand management of specified projects
- Ensure all deadlines are managed and delivered on time and on budget
- Taking designs and artwork from their conception and perfecting them before final sign-off
- Deliver beyond expectations
Deliverables
Delivering the highest levels of creative production art
- Responsible for art working projects set by P&PM
- Responsible for quality control of artwork produced
- Ensure consistency, accuracy, legibility, punctuation, graphic treatment across all artwork
- Liaise with client team + P&PM to ensure best possible print finish (print and stock)
- Strive for original, creative and relevant design
Take ownership of art and brand management of specified projects
- Ensure that briefs and expectations are delivered accurately and are clear and achievable
- Keep fluid communication with P&PM, designers and account team
- Ensure that brand requirements are adhered to and consistency is maintained
- Work closely with designers and account team to deliver against brand guideline, strategy
Ensure all deadlines are managed and delivered on time and on budget
- Work to allocated time/budget and flag any concerns in good time
- Manage workload, working alongside P&PM
- Flag availability when capacity
- Communicate any concerns about meeting deadlines before they happen, in good time
Taking designs and artwork from their conception and perfecting them before final sign-off
- Adapt existing artwork to alternative layouts and/or formats
- Offer flexibility and support on projects where required
- Be part of QC process on all work created
- Comfortable working to short deadlines and fast turnaround times
Deliver beyond expectations
- Offer alternative creative/design solutions where the opportunity is given
- Creatively contribute toward both existing clients and new business accounts
- Contribute to conceptual ideas (brainstorms)
- An active contributor to department knowledge and culture
- Regularly and accurately completes timesheets Become a go to person for Account Management teams
Other Duties As Assigned
AKA is a fluid and rapidly changing organisation. This position profile reflects the general nature and level of work assigned to the role. It does not restrict management’s right to reassign duties or responsibilities at any time based on business needs if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.
Person Specification
- 3-5 years of experience.
- Accuracy and attention to detail, along with good typography and layout skills.
- As a creative art worker, you have developed a more versatile skill set and also have a creative portfolio which demonstrates design flair in print and digital across a range of platforms. As a step up from an artworker, you will demonstrate original creative thinking in addition to execution – and you’ll have a portfolio that shows your imagination and ideas with ideally a sense of personal style
- Able to build relationships with account teams and interpret feedback.
- Good understanding of brand guidelines.
- Excellent working knowledge of repro and print processes, including colour management
- A creative eye able to create final art following existing guides.
- Retouching skills and visualising techniques.
- Outstanding knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud programmes and PowerPoint (creating templates).
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- ‘Telus Health’ EAP scheme for you and your family. Giving you access to free independent advice on Life, Health, Family, Money and Work matters
- Holiday Buy Back
- Friends & Family Theatre Ticket
- New Business Incentives
- Recruitment Incentives
- Pension Scheme*
- Interest Free Travel Loan*
- Ride to Work Scheme*
- Childcare Vouchers*
- Death in Service
- Flexible/Hybrid Working
- Critical Illness
- Enhanced Parental Leave
