Design Specialist

Design Specialist – 12 Month FTC

Your will project manage the design of Point of Sale, signage and instore experience, supporting the delivery of store change projects that follow our design guidelines for Asda On The Move store formats.

Your passion for design delivery and understanding of in store Point of Sale design and our design strategy will ensure that our customers’ engagement, loyalty, and trust continues to grow within the market by delivering the best possible in store experience.

Your role will include the creation of robust and thorough guidelines, toolkits, and templates to handover, briefing marketing teams, digital and artwork teams as well as external teams, proactively keeping guidelines live with stakeholders, updating and training out changes. You will be responsible for ensuring adherence to them, along with a system for the library management.

You are highly organised with proven project management skills and be a good problem solver that can think on their feet and react at pace to business needs.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Project management of creative briefs, gathering information from other teams plus supporting other members of the team with creative projects.
• Delivering beautifully relevant, customer-centric design and artwork, from brief to landing in store.
• Working with internal and external partners to deliver against critical path, within agreed timescales.
• Working with joint partners to clearly understand their creative requirements.
• Briefing creative, critiquing, developing, and approving designs, presenting back to senior teams for approval.
• Ensuring design remains on brand and adheres to Asda guidelines and toolkits.
• Maintaining a consistent high standard of creative delivery through all projects.
• Reviewing quotes from agencies where needed, keeping track of spend and facilitating Purchase Orders from other teams, driving Every Day Low Cost through right first-time principles.
• Maintain internal system to ensure creative and guidelines are archived and kept up to date.

About You

You must have:

• Experience working as a Project Manager, Account Manager or Graphic Designer in a design agency or in-house design studio.
• Ability to manage multiple projects; and be used to a fast paced and dynamic work environment.
• Strong creative skills and excellent attention to detail.
• A good understanding of brand design and management.
• Technical knowledge of artwork, repro, and print processes.
• Intermediate level MS Office
• Intermediate level Adobe CC

You Must Be

• Customer and process focussed.
• Experienced in leading projects with a solid track record of delivering on time, on budget and to brief.
• Self-motivated.
• Good team player.

If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is based at Asda House, Leeds with the flexibility to work from home 2-3 days per week

You will also get an excellent benefits package including –

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pensions up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking, and many additional rewards

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.