Senior Designer
Pan Macmillan is one of the largest general book publishers in the UK, with imprints including Picador, Bluebird, Pan and Macmillan Children’s Books.
We are looking to recruit two Senior Designers into our innovative, collaborative and award-winning Art & Design department.
Your role:
This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a highly creative, award-winning environment, designing across a diverse list of titles. One of the roles will focus mainly on designing and creating captivating cover artwork concepts, roughs and final visuals for our Middle-Grade and YA books, while the other will focus mainly on our reading group imprint, Mantle.
Your key responsibilities:
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Commissioning external photographers, illustrators and designers where relevant
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Handling the creative process from inception to final artwork, while ensuring adherence to budget and deadlines
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Collaborating with key stakeholders, communicating effectively to align your work with our publishing strategy and routes to market
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Taking a proactive approach to problem-solving will be invaluable in identifying issues, interpreting feedback and delivering innovative designs
Essential experience and knowledge you’ll need to succeed:
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Knowledge of print and digital requirements needed for design delivery
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Strong typographic skills
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Relevant illustrators’ awareness
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Demonstrate commercial understanding of genre and market
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Have passionate awareness of design and media trends
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Have experience in commissioning external creatives and artwork
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Have awareness of budgets and publishing schedules associated with projects
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Be skilful at problem-solving
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Be proactive and motivated
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Be able to work successfully in a team
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Be able to build close and effective working relationships
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Have excellent communication skills
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Have the ability to work effectively to tight deadlines
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Be organised and a multi-tasker
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Be skilled in Adobe Creative Suite
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Have experience working within a design studio and/or in publishing
Desirable skills we’d love you to have:
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Knowledge of the Google for Work suite and Biblio
What you’ll get in return:
In return we can offer you a range of great projects, a supportive and collaborative working environment, and a competitive salary and benefits package.
Starting salary: £37,000
Closing date: Sunday 7 April 2024
Some of the benefits we offer:
- 25 days annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays
- Generous pension scheme
- Discounted private medical insurance
- Group income protection scheme
- Enhanced family pay and leave
- Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish on a Friday during summer months)
- 2 volunteer days per year
- 75% off all Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates)
- Season ticket loan/advance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounts on shopping, Tastecard+ and gym memberships; Christmas club savings
- Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch
At Pan Macmillan, we are highly committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion at every level of our organisation. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Our efforts to promote DE&I is ongoing, and we continually strive to learn and improve our policies and practices. You can read our full Diversity & Inclusion Pledge is available here https://www.panmacmillan.com/about/diversity-and-inclusion
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