Assistant Designer - Home/Seasonal (Part-Time) 6-12 month Parental Leave Cover)
| Posting date: | 18 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2024 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/8568366/896412 |
Summary
About the role
We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for an aspiring Assistant Designer to join our Home/Seasonal team on a 6-12 month Parental Leave Cover Contract for approx 6-12 months (Part-Time)
We\'re looking for someone who is driven and passionate about print & design. The role will need you to be proactive and forthcoming with spotting the latest design and social trends. You\'ll demonstrate the ability to create your own original prints with a focus on an illustrated hand, designing our homeware, stationery and seasonal products.
A big part of this role will involve print design with greater focus on character illustration & product development. You should be inquisitive and challenging with a proactive approach to projects.
The Hiring Manager for this role is Helen Davies/Christopher Watts.
You will be responsible for
- Creating dynamic illustrative artworks which can be used across our Home & Seasonal products.
- Providing design, product development and sampling support to keep the team running efficiently.
- Conduct customer and competitor research to influence designs, build reports to share with the design team in meetings. You\'ll also contribute to the department\'s design direction, being proactive in identifying core lines, key statements and colours to drive sales.
- Understanding best and worst lines to influence seasonal strategy and innovative product opportunities.
- Supporting your Design manager in designing creative, trend-led collections.
- Supporting the delivery of \'must haves\' and seasonal/trend products for our customer.
- Assisting your manager by designing the accurate number of options to meet the needs of the department. You\'ll also compile brief packs to achieve \'right first time\' quality buying samples.
- Playing your role in delivering the design component of the design critical path
You will need
You will need experience of Photoshop/ Illustrator/ ProCreate as well, as hand illustration experience as well as experience with MS office tools. You\'ll also be involved in the range planning process and product development. If this role sounds like it could be of interest we would love to hear from you!
If this role sounds like it could be of interest we would love to hear from you!
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
- Colleague bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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