Home. There’s no place like it. And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly at home. At Dunelm, that’s what we do. We’re the UK's number one choice for homewares because we make home life joyful for our customers. The caring and supportive nature of our internal operations makes this a place you'll feel right at home too.
The purpose of the Creative department within the Brand Marketing team is to generate increased brand affinity, awareness and consideration amongst customers. Encouraging existing customers to shop more with us and new customers to consider Dunelm as a shopping destination. Our brand platform, The Home of Homes, is supported by owned channels, including ATL and organic social, as well as earned media and influencer engagement, underpinned by consistent creative and a single tone of voice. Amongst other, we work closest with the Commercial teams, Digital Trading and Digital Marketing to ensure the seamless promotion of our fantastic product offering and the work we do as a responsible retailer to support our local communities and the world in which we operate.
The Mid-weight Creative Designer role is pivotal in shaping the creative cross-channel for Dunelm. Our mission is to inspire a sense of joy, inspiration, and solutions for our customers. We tell a compelling and cohesive brand story. Our team executes creative to be in line with our brand guidelines.
This role will deliver robust designs for Dunelm, responding to briefs across multiple channels for digital, print and motion. Working collaboratively with other members in the team and stakeholders to deliver connected creative. The Mid-weight Creative Designer will have a good handle of Adobe suite and the main programmes for designing for digital and print. They will execute multiple projects from brief to publish with your Creative Manager against scheduled dates, and will assist with creating pitches and presentation of these to leadership and stakeholder teams.
Key to this role is staying up to date with the latest updates in software, our industry and platforms to help shape future creative projects.
This role is a hybrid opportunity (Office location either London or Leicester Syston).
We recruit people from all types of backgrounds, who share our entrepreneurial, hands-on approach to work. We are committed to creating a full inclusive environment that is representative of our customers and locations. We recognise the value and importance in inclusion and diversity and welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of sex, age, race, religion, disability, neuro-diversity, gender or sexual identity, socio-economic background or education.
- A developed sense of design, and clear understanding of Brand Building and Design systems, with an excellent eye for detail and brand consistency.
- Collaborate with Design teams in Dunelm HQ to understand briefs and translate them into creative optimised for channel that meets the needs of our customers.
- Produce assets for multichannel marketing campaigns.
- Produce assets and builds for all channel BAU creative briefs.
- Produce digital, static and motion graphic content.
- Support senior colleagues with preparation for publishing content and generation of creative toolkits.
- Deliver conceptual creative responses to seasonal campaigns and craft creative toolkits.
- Effective presentation skills. Communicate your creative response to various audiences in a compelling connected manner.
- Design and develop promotional emails that get sent to our customer base on a weekly basis.
- Adhere to brand guidelines which are consistent to our customers across a variety of channels.
- Ensure web development principles are followed which optimise our sites speed, performance and usability and channel best practice.
- Liaise with teams to understand their briefs and desired outcomes.
- Put the customer at the heart of everything we do.
- Work closely with stakeholders across the business to deliver outstanding and engaging creative content across all Dunelm platforms.
- Proven experience as a conceptual Graphic Designer or in a similar role, supported by a relevant degree or qualification.
- Fantastic attention to detail – work will be seen by a wide audience.
- Excellent typography.
- Beautifully considered layouts and compositions.
- Creative flair and excellent problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledgeable in Adobe Creative Suite – key programs being Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects.
- Self-starter with a proactive approach and a positive outlook.
- Great organisation and time-management skills.
- Interest in lifestyle, home and interiors sectors.
- Experience of Art Direction.
- Motivated and able to follow creative direction.
- Collaborative and capable of receiving feedback.
- Great presentation skills.
- Team player.
- Comfortable working at pace in an ever-evolving retail world.
- Highly flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.
- Bursting with ideas.
- Aware and up to date with the goings on across the wider Creative industry.
- Passionate brand ambassador for Dunelm.
