Digital Designer - Food

Job description

Job Description:

Summary

This is not just any job, this is a job working for the dynamic marketing team behind the creative for M&S Food Amazing provenance, innovative products and award-winning content - who wouldn’t want to work for M&S Food? We’re searching for: An innovative and forward-thinking designer bursting with creative ideas for transforming our online pages. A super organised individual who loves to work collaboratively and can juggle multiple projects and stakeholders on a daily basis. We want someone who is as comfortable stitching together stills into an engaging social video as they are updating existing online pages and working on original creative briefs to transform our existing online journey. Someone who is happy to get stuck in, whatever the task and however many times it changes throughout the day.

About the role Your key accountabilities will include

• Responsible for creating visual assets across multiple business units ensuring design and brand compliance

• Present, rationalise and critique visual design concepts and thoughts to/with colleagues and stakeholders

• Have a strong understanding of multichannel shopping behaviours and trends

• Deliver quality work to deadline

• Ability to work across multiple design briefs, from social editing to online pages and to manage workloads effectively across multiple stakeholders

• Ability to produce design style guides in line with M&S brand guidelines on building pages, websites and social media activations

Key skills Excellent visual design skills

• Previous experience working in ecommerce

• Understanding of digital retail

• Highly organized and ability to manage workloads in a fast-paced environment – is a must. Being able to manage pace and quality dependent on the brief.

• Experience of working with large brands, along with creating and following style guidelines

• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly collaborative environment

• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills

• Ability to influence broadly and communicate effectively at all levels

• Must be fluent in Adobe Creative Suite & preferably Sketch

• Innovative and lateral thinking within creative and execution

• Proficient in the use of video editing software with the ability to edit stills in to moving graphics for social channels