Junior Creative Artworker
Full time, permanent position, Wallington based, hybrid-working (2-3 office days). Open to part time.
About us
Newmarket Holidays is one of the UK's largest independent specialist tour operators. An award-winning travel specialist, every year, we create and operate holidays for tens of thousands of customers travelling to destinations within the UK, across Europe and around the world. We are in the business of creating amazing holiday experiences. The type of holidays that people have always dreamt of doing. We bring those dreams to life through stories and are the trusted friends of our loyal customers.
We know our success is driven by our exceptional people. This year we celebrate our 40th anniversary, so it’s an exciting time to join such an established travel business and brand and most importantly get to work with a great bunch of colleagues.
The role
The Marketing and Brand team lead in how we shape the voice of Newmarket Holidays, acquire customers, and reward them. Our visual brand representation needs to inspire both potential and existing customers to discover the joy of escorted tours. The Junior Creative Artworker helps to deliver a wide range of marketing collateral.
With the opportunity to deliver artwork for a multi-award-winning travel operator, this is a role that requires organisation to produce exciting digital and printed marketing. You are responsible for producing artwork for brochure production, direct mail, press advertisements, website imagery, digital marketing, travel agency marketing support and promotional items, and any other design requirements for our full range of travel products.
You are part of a Studio team of four designers. Together, you are brand guardians, both for internal and external marketing and have responsibility for driving consistency across the company and in all our marketing. The Marketing and Brand team, that the Studio team is a key part of, sits within our wider Commercial division.
What I do
- Brand: Helping to deliver brand identity, implementing it across our internal and external touchpoints.
- Creative delivery: Create and deliver multiple press adverts and digital assets for the Marketing team, including our co-branded media partner ads. Delivering our printed marketing collateral. Artwork and maintain graphics for website banners, email, social and digital display campaigns.
- Image selection and management: Ensure our images are fresh, consistent and on brand across our multiple tours throughout our collateral. Managing our image library and keeping it updated.Lead on press image requests quickly and efficiently.
- Production: Ensuring artwork meets brand and production guidelines and print requirements
- Promotions: Delivering our monthly promotional assets across the business, accurately and on time.
- Continuous improvement: Showing a passion for and delivering creative ideas to continuously improve our marketing materials. Identifying opportunities to test new ideas and show an inquisitive mind to understand the results of our creative tests.
- Efficiency: Help drive the ongoing efficiency processes within the team. Identify new efficiency opportunities.
Who I am
- Enjoy working in a small, but expanding team that is passionate about travel, marketing and brand
- You are just starting out or have two to three years’ experience artworking in an in-house or studio environment, preferably with relevant travel experience
- Good level of knowledge of Adobe CC suite including InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator is essential
- Good technical proficiency in artworking
- Knowledge of Premier Pro and After Effects would be advantageous
- Experience in motion design is preferred but not essential
- Familiarity with PowerPoint is advantageous
- Able to put yourself "in the customer’s shoes", and fully committed to delivering a fantastic customer experience
- The ability to work to brand guidelines and fully interpret design decisions
- Excellent time management and planning skills to successfully deploy concurrent workflows
- Ability to prioritise, work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Don’t just accept the status quo, always looking for and following through on ways to improve things
- Ability to thrive in a small team environment - a team player, happy to roll up your sleeves and get stuck into whatever comes your way
- Solutions focused
What we can offer you
- A changing and multi-cultural team-spirited environment with opportunities to learn from new experiences and challenges
- Leaders who are interested in your development and committed to helping you to be the best version of yourself
- A responsible organisation that cares about its people, the environment, and the communities we visit
- Encouragement to take initiative and try something new and different
- A flexible and hybrid-working arrangement
- An exciting set of benefits
- The opportunity to visit our destinations and experience our holidays
The Newmarket Spirit
The Newmarket Spirit is what binds us together. It is our 'who?’.The Newmarket Spirit encompasses five distinct pillars, which have been inspired by people across our organisation.
BE RESPONSIBLE | BE TOGETHER | BE COMMERCIAL | BE DETERMINED | BE A LEADER
Join Us!
Travel is a wonderful industry to be part of. If you're passionate about holidays - perhaps you've done a similar job before or have some other experience that is relevant - we'd love to hear from you! If this sounds like the kind of opportunity, and place to work, that you’re looking for, please send your CV with a brief covering note about your salary expectations and any notice period to our Recruitment Team. recruitment@newmarketholidays.co.uk
Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
No agencies, please.
As an equal opportunities employer, Newmarket Holidays is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Newmarket Holidays.