Senior Creative Designer

Company Description

Are you a creative visionary with a passion for transforming ideas into captivating print and digital mediums? Do you want to join a fast-growing team of energetic and ambitious ecommerce professionals making waves in the online marketplace and beauty subscription space?

You’ll be at the forefront of our design journey, you'll collaborate closely with the ecommerce marketing and trading teams to build our business’ brands and develop and execute campaigns that drive user awareness, engagement and sales conversion. If you're seeking an opportunity to make your mark in a company that values creativity and innovation, this is the role for you. 

We are looking for a Creative Designer to join the Yimbly and OK! Beauty Box ecommerce teams (Yimbly primarily) - part of Reach Plc, to start with us in January 2025. This can be fully remote or a hybrid working position from our Canary Wharf hub in London. We are flexible to work around your needs and preferences.

Please ensure that your application includes a link to your portfolio. 

Reach Plc is the UK’s largest commercial news publisher, home to the UK and Ireland’s most iconic digital platforms, magazines and newspapers The Mirror, Daily Express and OK! Liverpool Echo, MyLondon, Birmingham Live and the Manchester Evening News. 

Oh, and we should probably also mention that with a monthly readership of 47 million people, Reach is the largest commercial publisher in the UK.

Job Description

As our Creative Designer, you'll set the standard for creativity by leading key projects to an industry-leading level of quality. You will be responsible for collaborating with our brand and marketing teams to set the standard for creativity and lead on the creation and evolution of our identity, brand assets and marketing campaigns across print and digital. 

You will need to be proactive, continually absorbing ideas from other forms of creative influences, and have the passion and confidence to present those ideas and competently optimise the creative for each of our brands. We are looking for someone with ambition, who is eager to be a key component in our growth journey.

• Fully interpret briefs to deliver creative solutions that meet project objectives
• Consistently produce high-quality design and layout work, suitable for both digital and print production
• Utilise all approved programs, fonts, systems, and processes consistently
• Deliver all materials to the channel manager and/or advertiser in the correct format using the agreed delivery methods
• Assist colleagues in managing their workloads to ensure smooth project delivery
• Provide clear and regular reports to the senior management team
• Work efficiently to meet deadlines, ensuring accuracy and error-free work
• Foster strong relationships with sales staff, project managers, and stakeholders across departments

Qualifications

• Multimedia designer, passionate and creative, with the ability to work across a large variety of mediums
• Evidence of consistently high quality design and layout skills
• First class design skills, proficient in the use of all Adobe Creative Suite software.
• Proficiency in either Premier Pro/After Effects is essential
• Demonstrable experience of working within a commercial creative studio on retail media
• Good knowledge of current design trends and demonstration of contemporary design styles and techniques across all creative work 
• Excellent typographical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential
• A firm grasp of deadlines, with the ability to deliver what is required to a high standard, within studio processes
• An individual who is adaptable, being able to respond positively and quickly to unexpected business demands and taking on board new approaches, tasks, systems, working practices and additional responsibilities as required

Additional Information

Plus, as part of the Reach family you’ll have access to a brilliant range of benefits, including:

• Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%
• 25 days’ holiday per year when you join. After three, five and ten years’ service with Reach, you’ll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Giving back day - an additional day’s leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
• Enhanced family leave - including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you’ll be eligible after just six months’ employment
• Private Healthcare Cash Plan - free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
• As one of the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers everyone’s invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
• Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 employee assistance programme (EAP) for you and your nearest and dearest
• Awesome career opportunities - you’ll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
• We are also a member of the 30% Club, a global campaign aimed at increasing gender diversity at board and senior management levels

Reach plc believes diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.