Graphic Designer
We are looking for a part time Graphic Designer – maternity cover 32 hours a week for our portfolio of wellness and health brands –who lives within 30 miles circu Ansty Wiltshire but will mainly be remote working. As this is a maternity cover we anticipate that it will be for at least a 6 month period to a maximum of 12 months.
We are looking for a super talented packaging and graphic designer (perhaps some experience as a product designer) with a great eye, a fabulous approach to product and an edge if experienced in brochure. It’s a lot but we think the variety of our 4 companies and possibly 5 brands as a varied, never dull, not repetitious role will be a fantastic challenge for a design enthusiast with a good pace for execution
Job title: Graphic Designer
About us: Lara Morgan.co.uk is a brand investor in niche wellbeing products and concepts. (Scentered; Kitbrix, Yogi Bare, Global Amenities and Gate8)
The role
This role will see the ideal candidate working across a portfolio of brands as the designated in-house designer. The graphic designer will be responsible for the delivery of all graphic design tasks from Digital Design, product packaging, New Product Development, digital graphics, brand guidelines, print, possible some website work – and sales brochure / power point production to help us sell our socks off. You will also be dealing with our social media, blogs, photography and marketing & SEO.
This exciting opportunity allows a multi-skilled designer, to work with key account holders across the business to help bring fresh new ideas to the growing demand we have for design. We sell to Hospitality, to sports stores, the Yoga studio’s, we design Airline Crew baggage and also work in events sporting partnerships, selling customised goods such as Yoga Mats and KitBrix. Custom projects.
About you:
We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented creative with experience working as a graphic designer in the consumer industry. You must have a keen interest in sport and health and wellbeing. You will be multi-skilled and have experience in product packaging, as well as digital design. You will have an ability to react to a brief, give options and work fast.
You will be quick-thinking, creative and have good attention to detail. You will have a keen interest in consumer products and have a good knowledge of the Wellbeing and perhaps sporting / active lifestyle in outlook. Often our products appeal to 24-35year olds but of course each brand has it’s own developing persona. Additionally, sometimes we have to follow someone else’s brand guidelines so you need to be able to pay high level of attention to detail.
The ideal candidate will have a can-do attitude, who isn’t afraid of bringing new ideas speaking out. We also expect you to have a eco conscious frame of mind where sometimes less is more, where we consider packaging materials and all the touch points of the products to reduce planet damage.
Key skills include
- Sound Knowledge in Adobe CC Packages including Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
- Ability to work across multiple accounts across the portfolio
- A degree (or equivalent) in Graphic Design
- At least 3 years’ experience as a graphic designer
- Previous experience in packaging design from inception to print
- Excellent Communication skills
- Ability to manage their own time
- Comfortable with remote working
- PowerPoint experience would be a bonus
- Pro-active can-do attitude
- Ability to work with photos and digitally work with them
- Deadline driven
Culturally we are hugely enterprising, trust implicitly, expect leading standards of work and we like to laugh. It’s good to learn and to laugh.
We understand we may have to support you with Adobe Creative Cloud – but we would also like to know what else you might need. If you have any extra skills such as the ability to do solid basic photo production of products or have ever had any experience producing video content. Do not be a wallflower.
If you are interested please send your CV and cover letter with salary expectations to mandy@functionalitygroup.com in a creative style that shows what makes you fit our approach. Pick one or all of our brands and show what you can do that is better, different, more engaging, amusing – and commercial.
