Job Description
Salary: £30k+ (dependent on experience)
You enjoy spending your days reviewing, amending, retouching and reworking designs and artwork files, ensuring they’re ready for final print and digital applications.
You have an eye for detail and understand how print and pixel work together. You’re a dab hand a PowerPoint too.
Your portfolio showcases your ability to take creative from designers and turn them into files that you have also checked over for final production, ready to leave the building.
You’re looking for an agency where you can thrive and grow. Somewhere you’ll get mentoring and support to develop your personal and professional skills as well as the camaraderie that comes from being part of a tight-knit team in a growing regional agency.
If this sounds like you, take a look at what we have to offer at Marlow-based agency BWP…
What is BWP and why should I work for the agency?
BWP is an award winning destination marketing agency. We elevate brands with impactful, creative strategies that bring people to places to achieve commercial growth. Our integrated marketing campaigns supports the growth of brands like Trafford Centre, Gravity, Dalton Park, IKEA and Livingston Designer Outlet.
All our employees enjoy the standard benefits you’d expect - a competitive salary (in this case £30k+); 25 days paid holiday plus bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday; and a pension scheme. Plus, we also offer:
* Hybrid working – everyone at the agency enjoys three days collaborating and building strong working relations with colleagues in our Marlow town centre offices (Monday, Wednesday & Thursday) and two days working from anywhere.
* Company bonus scheme (discretionary) – if BWP does well, so do you. Our Creative Artworkers can get up to 6% of annual salary as a bonus.
* Bespoke Personal Development Plans and the mentoring and support you need to pave your way to Senior Creative Artworker and beyond.
* A busy social calendar with regular company socials
* A culture of appreciation, reward, and recognition with monthly and quarterly awards and celebrations.
* Company wellbeing programme including a free counselling service as needed.
What do Creative Artworkers at BWP do:
Our Creative Artworkers are responsible for amending and checking artwork files in line with client brand guidelines and/or supplied design directions, eliminating inconsistencies and ensuring the integrity for final print and digital applications. This includes:
* Reviewing, amending, retouching and reworking designs and existing artwork files created by our designers
* Making sure all artwork files meet the correct specifications for the relevant media and remain in line with brand guidelines. This includes pre-flight checks.
* Liaising closely with designers, account managers and our Traffic Manager on appropriate aspects of the artwork production process
* Advising the agency on the most cost-effective and suitable production processes.
What do I need to showcase in my CV and portfolio to stand out?
We're looking for a multi-skilled Creative Artworker with at least 18 months experience. Ideally, this will have been in a creative/integrated marketing agency though freelance and internal studio team experience in a similarly fast-paced environment would also be considered.
We’re looking for someone who:
* Has a portfolio that showcases their work across a range of disciplines including print, digital, social media and presentations.
* Has extensive knowledge of print, digital and social media production techniques and the artwork file formats needed to achieve these.
* Has an in-depth knowledge of the core Adobe Creative Cloud applications and Microsoft PowerPoint.
* Isn’t afraid to challenge clients, briefs or assumptions. Enjoys pushing boundaries, trying new things and finding new, creative ways of doing things (embodying our value Brave).
* Strives to make a positive impact in everything you do, be it for your clients, your colleagues or the wider community (embodying our value Impactful).
* Wholeheartedly loves what you do, and who you do it with and for. (embodying our value Passionate).
* Is fun, friendly and driven to use your heart as well as your head (embodying our value Human).
* Can be office-based in Marlow three days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday).
I’m interested. What happens next?
If you think you’re the person we’re looking for, please apply with your CV and a link to your portfolio.
If we like the look of your CV/portfolio, you’ll be set a practical task, to show us your skills. This helps us understand not only what you can do, but, just as importantly, how you work.
Impress us with your work and you’ll be invited to have a Teams chat with our Senior Creative Artworker and Creative Director.
Impress them and there’ll be one more stage – a more informal chat with some of the wider Studio team. Wow them and the job’s yours!