Your new role

The Creative Stylist will work as part of the Creative team to help drive art direction on catalogue assets and campaigns. They will be super engaged, energetic and passionate about styling, interior design and beautiful 3D/photography which is channelled through their leadership art direction within the 3D space. They must be a strong communicator both written and verbally and be able to present clearly and influence their ideas. The Creative Stylist will drive the style direction for stills assets, mainly 3D, along with photography and video. This is everything from planning, organising, art directing, archiving and owning the whole asset preparation working with the 3D and internal Video team. They will love to research new trends and be a key part of the Creative team that drives the concept and creation of assets for the brand.

A day in the life of...

• Develop style and art direction for catalogue and campaign assets through visual moodboards, scamps, and illustration

• Working with the Buying team to interpret brief and align styling to brief

• Work closely with internal 3D team and external photographers to deliver product photography from style direction

• Provide styling and art direction for external shoots, such as TV or campaign

• Creative concept development of trends and seasonal social photography shoots

• Manage the filing of all 3D/photography asset bank

• Create and manage the photography plan for the year, with a longview of photography/gifs/video to compliment trends, key calendar date and launch of new products

• Ensure all work is on brand and design of impeccable standard

• Manage consistency of assets across multiple asset shoot

• Research industry competitors, design and social trends and bake into concept work as a part of the process

• Present their ideas/work and influence their ideas

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

• Play a leading role on stills and video shoots - bringing your ideas to life with Photographers and Directors on video and stills

• Manage logistics and planning for all external shoots

• Organise external shoots when required, including logistics of product and planning 

• Constantly monitor brand consistency with Creative team members.

Measures of Success

• Creative concept quality - engaging design concepts that meets the objective of the brief

• Creative effectiveness

• Delivering to deadline 

• Cross departmental team integration

• Quality of preparation for 3D team

• Understanding and interpretation of briefing

• Creative input and contribution.

• Monitoring of output - assets used and impacts

In an ideal world...

Candidate Requirements

• An experienced presenter and communicator, this role would be expected to present at internal and external meetings

• A dynamic creative that has a passion for interior design, marketing, social trends

• Have a strong understanding and appreciation of on trend content for different social channels

• Must have extensive experience in creative art direction for photography/3D

• Be confident in a shoot environment - being able to get your ideas across and collaborate with others is a key part of this role

• Strong portfolio of work - photography and 3D styling/art direction

• Need to travel to shoots, competitors, Stores and our Support Office. This is not a remote position and collaboration face to face will be needed to reach the potential of this role

• A team player who can work with other creatives - collaboration is super important here

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

• Tenacious approach to quality

• Highly competent in Sketch Up/Photoshop

• Whilst this is a highly creative role, strong organisational skills will be required

• Studied at HND/Degree Level.

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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