Your new role

Sofology is already a strong brand but it is in its growth stage with a lot more exciting strategic development ahead to make it great. Marketing and creative will play a pivotal role in brand growth and the Artwork Lead will play an important role in supporting the delivery of marketing campaigns. The role will sit within the Design and Production Team and will be a team player that can deliver amazing high quality artwork across a range of channels, including print and digital (web, email, social). They will have a razor sharp eye for detail and this role is a key to driving exceptional standards in the marketing output. They will be obsessive about accuracy, consistency and beautiful design.

A day in the life of...

• Deliver creative, effective design work required from the Marketing plan

• Work with wider Marketing team to ensure clear understanding of briefing

• Constantly monitor brand consistency with Creative team members

• Work with 3d and creative concept teams to take concepts and assets to deliver campaign artwork

• Deliver work that is of high quality and to correct specification

• Develop and design assets that adhere to style guides for campaigns

• Lead the print artwork production and delivery - store point of sale, print advertising, OOH, 

• Lead artwork for social channel

• Lead image retouch and manipulation

• Produce content for paid media across print and digital

• Support Lead Digital Designer in website and email creative

• Ensure all outputs are correct to specification

• Liaise with external suppliers 

• Manage one direct report - Artworker, which you will coach and develop.

• Key contributor to brand guidelines.

In an ideal world...

• A dynamic creative that can adapt to new technologies and new media

• Must have a razor sharp eye for detail and consistency

• Demonstrate their experience in creating and managing brand guidelines and style guides

• A team player who can work with other managers 

• They will need to be able to build great relationships across the business, liaise with stakeholders on clear briefing, expectation management

• Strong problem solving skills to ensure campaigns and meet the standard on time

• Tenacious approach to quality and instilling that in the team

• Highly competent in Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign

• Highly experienced and knowledgeable in print specifications, colour profiling.

• Brand consistency

• Design quality

• Design accuracy

• Quality of team output

• Improvement of team

• Delivering to deadline

• Improved processes and efficiencies

Pay and Perks

• A great basic salary & a very generous team bonus
• Professional Qualifications Learning & Development
• Next generation programme
• 30% discount across the group & 15% for friends & family
• High street Discounts with 100’s of great brands
• Contributory Healthcare Pension 
• Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues & your household
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
  • Discuss flexible working & part time opportunities

A little about Sofology

At Sofology, sofas are SO our thing - but so are our people! In fact, people are our greatest asset and that’s why we are completely committed to our ED&I strategy, So For All. We are working passionately with all of our colleagues across the business to learn, understand and be completely enthralled into continuing to make Sofology an equal, diverse and inclusive place to work.

It’s important to us to make sure that we don’t just look for new talent to ‘fit in’ with our culture, but instead, we look for incredible talented colleagues to ‘add’ to our wonderful culture.

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