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Burberry
Creative Artworker
London
Full Time

LOCATION

London

SALARY

tbc

JOB ADDED

6 months ago

At Burberry, we believe creativity opens spaces. Our purpose is to unlock the power of imagination to push boundaries and open new possibilities for our people, our customers and our communities. This is the core belief that has guided Burberry since it was founded in 1856 and is central to how we operate as a company today.

We aim to provide an environment for creative minds from different backgrounds to thrive, bringing a wide range of skills and experiences to everything we do. As a purposeful, values-driven brand, we are committed to being a force for good in the world as well, creating the next generation of sustainable luxury for customers, driving industry change and championing our communities.

JOB PURPOSE

Burberry requires an experienced, skilled and enthusiastic technical designer / creative artworker with a keen interest in the field of Campaign, Print and Packaging.

Reporting into the Senior Technical Designer and Creative Artworker, this role will require a close working relationship with both the Burberry Beauty team and the licensee to ensure a consistent brand image. This person will be responsible for creating technical artworks and guidelines for global advertising campaigns and top-end printed collateral. Communicating directly with the licensee and becoming a technical brand guardian for Burberry Beauty. The candidate will also support on day to day creative artworking needs, producing highly spec’d arwtorks for prototyping and production.

The success of this role will be driven by their ability to collaborate and clearly communicate, manage multiple and varied projects at any one time, have an excellent understanding of layout, typography, printing and colour processes, have a great eye for detail as well as the ability to work autonomously in a pressurised and fast-paced environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

 

  • Support the Beauty creative team with artwork guidelines, templates and pre-artworks across all Beauty Campiagns: Print, POS and OOH, from kick off to delivery.
  • Review and approve licensee/agency cropping guidelines for advertising campaigns (Print, OOH, POS), liasing with licensee marketing and Burberry designers and art directors on back/forth updates from all relevant parties.
  • Review and approve Digital guidelines against POS to ensure brand consistency
  • Output campaigns for various markets wiith different requirements, including Chinese taglines
  • Liase with internal post teams to provide support in image proofing
  • Support Senior Technical Designer and Creative Artworker on all artworking queries, providing informed and technically precise input to licensee, the Burberry creative team and 3rd party suppliers.
  • Work closely with the packaging designers to develop artwork guidelines to accompany Burberry’s creative design delivery to the licensee.
  • Autonomously design technical aspects of packaging / print collateral.
  • Work closely with the packaging designers to develop designs from approved concepts into print-ready artwork for in-house prototyping with local 3rd party suppliers.

 

PERSONAL PROFILE

  • Will have minimum +3 years working in a similar role, ideally in the Luxury Fashion/ Beauty sector
  • Extremely organised with a focus on timely delivery and excellent communication skills
  • Extensive understanding and experience of print and product development processes, from prototyping to industrial production
  • Proactive in identifying issues, exploring and proposing innovative solutions
  • Will have the ability to prioritise and multi-task in a pressurised and fast paced environment, with strong attention to detail and perfectionist attitude
  • Self-motivated and highly organised, ability to work autonomously.
  • An extensive knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite software, including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
  • Ideally proficient in Sketch

FOOTER

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.