Senior Designer, Campbell

Your team:
We are looking for a talented, highly creative and hard-working senior children’s designer to join the Campbell team. The Campbell list is rich, diverse and full of all types of novelty books for children aged 0–6. This is a full-time role and the successful applicant will be based in our London office, with three days in-house.

Your role:
The Senior Designer role is a stimulating and wide-ranging role – in a typical day you might be designing and creating a cover, writing an artwork brief, commenting on roughs and developing highly finished visuals and mock-ups for sales material.

Your key responsibilities:

• Collaborating with design colleagues, including supporting junior members of the team as well as the editorial, production and sales teams to create fun and educational novelty books

• Maintaining a high level of design across existing series, including taking ownership of a large-scale programme

• Delivering new titles and bringing forward new ideas

• Handling the creative process from inception to final artwork, while ensuring adherence to budget and deadlines

• Taking a proactive approach to problem-solving will be invaluable in identifying issues, interpreting feedback and delivering innovative designs.

Essential experience, abilities and knowledge you’ll need to succeed:

• Extensive understanding of novelty format design

• Proven experience working as a Designer in children’s book publishing

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to remain calm under pressure

• High level of commercial awareness.

Desirable skills we’d love you to have:

• Line-management experience

• 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 as well as a competitive salary and benefits package.

Salary starting from: £36,500

Closing date: 26 August 2024

Some of the benefits we offer:

• 28 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 Pan 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

This is a permanent role, and will be based in our offices in Farringdon, London, with some flexibility to work from home each week.

All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK in order to be considered for this role.

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