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Specialist Leisure Group
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Wigan, Greater Manchester
Graphic Designer
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Job Type: Full-time |
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Salary: £17,500 per annum |
Overview
We’re looking for a Graphic Designer tocreate graphical and design work to brief that is of an exceptional creative standard, is on brand and produced on time. Joining us on a permanent, full-time basis, you will be based in Wigan and in return we’re offeringa competitive salary of £17,500 per annum , plus excellent benefits . Specialist Leisure Group (SLG) is a successful £200m turnover leisure business which employs more than 2000 people. The Group provides holidays and short breaks for over one million customers each year. The brands are well known and include Shearings Holidays, National Holidays, Caledonian Travel, UK Breakaways, Bay Hotels, Coast & Country Hotels, Country Living Hotels and Wallace Arnold Travel Shops. As our Graphic Designer , you will contribute towards creative thinking and promote the brand in an effective and stylish manner. You’ll help drive day-to-day enquiries and sales for the brand portfolio and other revenue generating products, to enhance the brand’s performance and profile, whilst targeting a wide range of customers. You will also support Marketing, Product and Trade colleagues in the production of material/tools for both on and offline. Benefits of joining us as our Graphic Designer: - Competitive salary - 31 days holiday per year (inclusive of bank holidays) - A relaxed, friendly work environment. - Highly effective, motivated and supportive team members - Pension scheme - Discounted hotel rates at group hotels for self as well as friends and family Key responsibilities of our Graphic Designer: - Work with the Studio Manager to take creative briefings from the Marketing, Product and Trade teams and ascertain that all information required to produce creative work is gained - Complete design and artwork from briefing stage right through to final creative files, prepared for print or offline use - Be part of and participate in conceptual brainstorming sessions with the marketing department and Studio - Work with Studio Manager to produce all post-production for all campaigns ensuring that all work meets the creative briefs, and that all work is produced on time - Be responsible and organised, forthcoming to other members of the team with timescales for projects - Be efficient and organised, able to work efficiently as an individual as well as a team player - Work with the relevant department heads to ensure that all creative work is on brand and can maximise cut through - With brand guidance and support from the Studio Manager as well as the marketing team, become known as Brand Advocate for Shearings - Work with internal marketing teams to ensure that all members are up to date on all current and up-coming tasks on a weekly basis - Ensure that all work produced is produced on time and is on brand with supervision from the Studio Manager as well as the marketing team Skills and experience required to become our Graphic Designer: - Must be experienced in the following - Adobe CC Suite specifically InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop - Must have minimum 2 years’ experience as a creative with mac skills or a designer - Be educated to degree level with a graphics design degree - Must have worked in a team environment and be used to producing conceptual work as well as graphics and design work – must be a creative thinker - Knowledge of HTML5 & CSS would be an advantage Above all, you will need to have the right attitude. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do and so we expect you to do everything in your power to make their experience the absolute best it could possibly be. We don’t believe in ‘that’s not my job’ so you will need to be adaptable and flexible to help the wider team meet and exceed our customers’ expectations. If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Graphic Designer , please click apply now.