The posting
The Finished Artist works closely with BMF’s Retail Production, Creative and Project Management teams to produce artwork to a high standard that reflects our established reputation for work of extremely high quality.
- 300,000 Maximum Benefit Limit HMO Benefit with one free dependent on day one.
- Group life insurance
- Overtime, holiday, and night differential pay.
- Up to 20 leave credits.
- Birthday leave credit.
- Carry-over of unused leave credits.
- Remote work arrangement with available pro-working space at any KMC site.
· Highly competetent in InDesign with regular use over a minimum 3 years’ experience. · High-volume page production · File prep for print · Experience with template-driven work, versioning and rollouts · Full Creative Cloud knowledge: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat and Bridge. Working knowledge of MS Office and GoogleDocs/Slides. · Experience with Figma and other digital design tools, including AI functionality, and enthusiasm for continual learning as technology evolves. · Ability to ensure that finished artwork is technically proficient and prepared correctly for dispatch or upload, in line with the brief and reference materials supplied. · Accuracy and attention to detail is paramount, with much of the work focussed on price and product specification.
Advantageous: · Ability to adapt ways of working to suit the speed and quality requirements of the brief. · Excellent layout and typographical skills. · Basic graphic design skills. · Experience working with a Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems and automated workflows. · Ability to produce HTML banners and simple animations.
Experience preferred from these fields: · Retail · Publishing · Packaging · Supermarket catalogues · E-commerce asset production
Key Result Areas
OPERATIONAL
Tasks/Accountabilities | Key Performance Indicators
· Working closely with internal stakeholders to develop and craft retail catalogues and other advertising across a variety of print and digital channels. · Manage all work in line with processes in place to enable high volume production across multiple workstreams. · Attention to detail is absolutely paramount, as is the ability to manage workload to achieve deadlines. · Liaise with Project and Production Managers when required to ensure that artwork specs align with printer/publisher expectations. · Communicate and collaborate with Creative/Design teams to produce the best result from their ideas. · Become familiar with your clients’ brand guidelines and able to flag any work that is not on brand, or has unclear print specs or artwork brief.
CULTURAL
Tasks/Accountabilities | Key Performance Indicators
· Possess a can-do attitude and a positive approach when dealing with colleagues. · Proactively resolve any queries on a job to minimise time delays, unnecessary artwork amends or studio backlog. · Strong communication across multiple teams to ensure clarity of priorities and outputs required. · Take ownership of your work and pride in the accuracy and quality of what you deliver. · Alignment with BMF’s strategic vision and cultural values – Cheeky, Gutsy, Humble
FINANCIAL
Tasks/Accountabilities | Key Performance Indicators
and other duties as directed by your manager
· Maintain timsheets accurately on a daily basis. · Engage with opportunities to upskill, cross-skill and learn from your colleagues and the wider team. · Flag with producers/project managers when work is likely to take longer than planned/expected.
• Full Creative Cloud knowledge: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Bridge. Working knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Quickcut as well as Google Docs, are also preferable. • Knowledge of Adobe Suite • Experience with Figma and other digital design tools, and enthusiasm for continual learning as technology evolves. • Able to ensure that finished artwork is technically proficient and prepared correctly for dispatch or upload, in line with the brief and reference materials supplied. • Accuracy and attention to detail are paramount, with much of the work focused on price and product specification. • Ability to adapt ways of working to suit the speed and quality requirements of the brief. • Excellent layout and typographical skills. • Good creative and graphic design skills. • Experience working with a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system and automated workflows is desirable. • Demonstrated working knowledge of Pre-Press processes. • Experience in Colour Management. • The ability to produce HTML banners and simple animations is a distinct advantage.
• Absolute attention to detail, quality, and timely execution of tasks is paramount. • Ability to work at a pace in a busy Agency environment. • To make quick and confident decisions about jobs and be proactive about resolving queries. • Ability to work within set processes and timelines to ensure high-turnover, high-frequency briefs are executed to the highest possible standard, whilst allowing enough time to be as creatively led and well-crafted as possible. • Relevant interests: illustration, photography, fine art, or related media have proven advantageous in the past. • Can do attitude, with a career-focused nature. • Passionate about the industry. • Team player; Provide assistance to colleagues with day-to-day tasks as required. • Show behaviour that aligns with BMF values: Humble, Cheeky, and Gutsy. • Possess a can-do attitude and a positive approach when dealing with colleagues.
