Senior Print Designer (Publishing)

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Print Designer to join our Harrods Team has arisen. As a Senior Designer, you will be responsible for assisting constructing creative concepts & layouts for the full Harrods print publication portfolio (Harrods Magazine, Harrods Man, Home, Estates & various supplements) A key part of this role is seeing the magazine process from design to print - delivering high quality design and liaising with the photography/ production and sub-editing teams whilst coordinating and managing tasks to ensure publishing deadlines are met. This role will sit within the Creative Content division and report to the Lead Art Editor.

Principal Accountabilities

• Excellent layout skills, great typography and retouching knowledge
• Work closely with the lead art editor, section editors and pictures team to produce great layouts and adhere to the workflow
• Involved in all editorial content meetings to ensure the wider team are always updated of page statuses
• To liaise with the wider team in chasing for content that might be required to ensure deadlines are met
• Ensuring all pages are checked thoroughly before they are sent to press– and liaising with the Production and Repro team
• To successfully understand a brief in order to interpret business needs
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and can multi-task, delivering prompt results and prioritizing effectively
• Collaborate with other creative teams within the business to wholistic and consistent responses to briefs
• Keep up with trends in Luxury design, and the creative efforts of our major competitors as well as other luxury brands

About us

As the world’s luxury emporium, we deliver a magical, memorable experience for customers. This makes us uniquely challenging for creative minds, to protect and grow our brand demands extraordinary composure, creativity and commerciality. Harrods’ global brand offers uniquely exciting challenges, and we nurture a supportive environment where creativity, resilience and commercial awareness make anything possible. As a Senior Designer, you’ll build and nurture key relationships across Harrods, suppliers and Clients to leverage opportunities and raise the profile of Harrods.

About you

• Excellent proficiency with design tools such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Bridge is essential.
• Experience of the retail or luxury sector.
• Good knowledge of magazine design, typography, photography and illustration.
• Ability to think laterally and creatively to come up with great design solutions quickly and efficiently in a demanding and challenging environment.
• Extremely well organized and good at managing and juggling projects – big and small.
• Successful team-management experience with freelance.
• Post production including image mark ups, color correction, approvals and art finalizing of pages.
• You’ll be a natural and proactive problem solver.
• You’ll be agile and thrive in a fast-moving environment.
• To be successful, you must have good knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite.

Our promise to you

We pride ourselves on challenging conventional thinking and making the impossible possible. If you share our positive approach, this is a career move that will open doors for you. You’ll gain experience across the business while working at the heart of a fast-paced and prestigious team.

For our part, we’ll recognize your ideas with excellent opportunities for long-term career progress, plus a strong package. This includes generous pension and life insurance, staff discounts of up to 33% on Harrods’ products, 25 days’ holiday and your birthday off. 

Uniquely You

At Harrods we believe anything is possible. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive.  What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

If you want to know more about our people and our culture, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram, or tune in to our podcast True Tales from Harrods. Listen on Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts or Amazon Music