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Halewood, England, United Kingdom

• Creation of artwork for flyers, posters, internal documents such as employee handbooks, and promotional exhibition stands for upcoming academy career events and periodic parents/carers evenings.• Fully responsible for maintaining, editing and uploading documents to the school website.• Developing conceptual design ideas to be presented to the Senior Leadership team and ultimately the Principal.• Creation and updating all of Halewood Academy’s wall art and outputting to internal… Show more • Creation of artwork for flyers, posters, internal documents such as employee handbooks, and promotional exhibition stands for upcoming academy career events and periodic parents/carers evenings.• Fully responsible for maintaining, editing and uploading documents to the school website.• Developing conceptual design ideas to be presented to the Senior Leadership team and ultimately the Principal.• Creation and updating all of Halewood Academy’s wall art and outputting to internal large format printers for placement around the academy. • Managing long/short run print production in relation to exams, booklets and posters to digital Ricoh print machines.• Liaising with senior management in updating and developing the Academy’s weekly newsletter before distributing via direct mail to parents and carers.- Designing, editing and developing parent packs working closely with Year Leaders to promote the Academy brand to feeder schools etc.- Responsible for all internal staff photography, colour correcting and uploading to the Academy’s website and staff handbook. Show less

Knowsley, Liverpool

• Creation of artwork for window vinyls for major fast food restaurant and creating finishing templates for precise window, door and frame placement.• Creating posters, flyers, banners, vouchers and other internal marketing collateral for a major international restaurant brand.• Developing concepts and design ideas for door and window vinyls to existing specifications and liaising with other specialised print suppliers on relation to outsourcing needs.• Leading on marketing products… Show more • Creation of artwork for window vinyls for major fast food restaurant and creating finishing templates for precise window, door and frame placement.• Creating posters, flyers, banners, vouchers and other internal marketing collateral for a major international restaurant brand.• Developing concepts and design ideas for door and window vinyls to existing specifications and liaising with other specialised print suppliers on relation to outsourcing needs.• Leading on marketing products to national store promotional campaigns which occur periodically based on brand guidelines and branding direction.• Maintaining and revising existing artwork within an in-house catalogue for a major client, and responding to their international store and franchisee needs in relation to store opening, refits and specific time sensitive promotional days.• Managing fast workflow to digital Xerox and Heidelberg litho printing presses with priority to campaigns over daily workload demands.• Liaising with senior management in developing promotional packs to be delivered to clients on a daily/weekly basis. Show less

Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

• Create print-ready and digital designs to meet the marketing campaign briefs and to high standards • Be directly responsible for all key aspects of design projects, including taking lead on understanding the marketing campaign design brief, project research, conceptual and creative development, ensuring design integrity and quality. • Designing and testing communication tools and point-of-sale items (for several brands) • Provide specialist design service for architects, engineers… Show more • Create print-ready and digital designs to meet the marketing campaign briefs and to high standards • Be directly responsible for all key aspects of design projects, including taking lead on understanding the marketing campaign design brief, project research, conceptual and creative development, ensuring design integrity and quality. • Designing and testing communication tools and point-of-sale items (for several brands) • Provide specialist design service for architects, engineers and the construction sector • Lead on creative concept briefs to existing high profile clients (Hill Dickinson, HE Simm). • Creating mock-up images and designing product samples for photo shoots • Creating kits/sets of designs ensuring consistency across different uses and sizes • Maintaining brand compliance of own work • Provide bespoke folder designs for current client base for tender admissions. • Create infographics and visuals for social media platforms (for several brands) • Updating and creating orders using internal Sage ordering software • Creating templates and documents for internal (Hobs Group) use • Other Adhoc duties as requested by the Group Marketing Manager Show less

Liverpool, United Kingdom

To support the design requirements of the marketing, regional and business development team - the creation of new marketing pieces for the company as required internally and externally.Print material design - adverts, posters and other marketing pieces.Key Tasks and Responsibilities of the Role:• Digital material design - online pieces for the web (banners, digital adverts and eblasts).• To manage existing marketing literature and support material, keeping it up-to-date on… Show more To support the design requirements of the marketing, regional and business development team - the creation of new marketing pieces for the company as required internally and externally.Print material design - adverts, posters and other marketing pieces.Key Tasks and Responsibilities of the Role:• Digital material design - online pieces for the web (banners, digital adverts and eblasts).• To manage existing marketing literature and support material, keeping it up-to-date on the company intranet site.• Lead on the development of Unit Guides, Posters, Flyers and Factsheets for the new Advanced and Higher Level Frameworks. Provide content, design and an overall sense check and proof read for each document - put updated ones on the intranet site.• Complete ad-hoc print requests for the Marcomms and Innovation Team• Support the sales and business development teams with bespoke client material resources to support the management of these accounts (manager/learner guides, posters, leaflets).• Provide support through design to Account managers' existing client base with Ad hocdesign requests.• Support regional teams with specific material design to help grow the brand in the region (Posters, leaflets, banners, adverts).• Support any events F4S by producing appropriate material to showcase the brand atthe event.• Provide support to the team for the creation/design of pitches, tenders and presentations, as directed by the Executive and Account Managers.• Provide support to Executive/HR team with the preparation for company conference (logos, presentation etc).• Keep marketing section of the intranet updates with new material when required.• To co-edit and design First4News bi-annually.• Re-designed, collaborated and refreshed First4Skills website for 2016 relaunch.• Lead on and co-ordinate First4Radar, the First4Skills external e-newsletter.• Develop bespoke designs for tenders and presentations, as directed by the Executive and relevant colleagues. Show less

Trafford Park, Manchester

• Creating new design cover concepts and amending, retouching, for pre-existing EncoreCatalogue products for up-coming catalogue launches, and sending web imagery for outsourcing.• Designing marketing literature for a wide variety of clientel from business cards, leaflets,posters, booklets to full size banners or corporate brochure work• Creating artwork for NHS Hospital Trust, in-housing marketing campaigns and assisting theirteam regarding image sourcing.• Providing… Show more • Creating new design cover concepts and amending, retouching, for pre-existing EncoreCatalogue products for up-coming catalogue launches, and sending web imagery for outsourcing.• Designing marketing literature for a wide variety of clientel from business cards, leaflets,posters, booklets to full size banners or corporate brochure work• Creating artwork for NHS Hospital Trust, in-housing marketing campaigns and assisting theirteam regarding image sourcing.• Providing artwork to print suppliers using the correct pre-press process which results in astunning end product i.e. Spot UV, Embossing, Foiling, Kiss-Cut work.• Pre-flighting artwork issues prior to sending to print suppliers from client supplied artwork.• Supporting the management team in uploading print ready artwork through the companiesonline system, connected to Printing.com print servers. Show less

Warrington, Cheshire, England

Key Tasks and Responsibilities of the Role:• Checking, imposing and ripping client artwork using Trueflow SE worklfow softwareimposition ripping for two B2 Komori and Ricoh SRA3 digital presses.• Outputing and checking plates prior to print production using Screen platemaking system.• Flagging up any potential artwork/rip errors and fixing if necessary using Enfocus-Pitstop Pro software.• Providing proofs for client sign off.• Creating print ready artwork from… Show more Key Tasks and Responsibilities of the Role:• Checking, imposing and ripping client artwork using Trueflow SE worklfow softwareimposition ripping for two B2 Komori and Ricoh SRA3 digital presses.• Outputing and checking plates prior to print production using Screen platemaking system.• Flagging up any potential artwork/rip errors and fixing if necessary using Enfocus-Pitstop Pro software.• Providing proofs for client sign off.• Creating print ready artwork from concept to approval.• Ensuring corporate brand guideline consistency within clients specifications.• Colour matching to client specification if using specific pantone references.• Creating original artwork for short and long term marketing projects. • Operating, maintaining and running Ricoh digital printer for short and medium print runs.• Printing personalised literature and mailers for weekly/monthly mail-outs.• Advising and liasing with production managers and clients regarding print and keeping them up-to-date as regards to deadlines an on-going work issues.• Creating and producing die-cut formes for in-house cutter catalogue.• Maintaining and controlling the company’s pre-press in-house wireless backup system. Show less

Liverpool, England

DUTIES include:Managing, producing and designing projects from brief to fulfilmentAmending artwork for NHS, Housing Trusts and banking clients.Designing & creating marketing materials on a wide range of projects.Ensuring colour content layout consistency in clients corporate and promotional brands.Replying to artwork related queries from clients and sales support.Artwork re-touching for large format cliental.

Skelmersdale, England

DUTIES include:Responsible for developing and creating both digital and print design for a wide range of print publications and advertising.Creation of distributor cover brochure artwork from concept to completion.Updating catalogue product pricing over set time periods.Image manipulation and colour correction issues.Designing, updating in-house daily, weekly and monthly newsletters.

Runcorn, England

Responsible for pre-press, sending and checking artwork prior to print including amending, imposing using Prinect Sign Station prior to final release to press output.Checking artwork for pre-flight issues via CD, ISDN, or e-mail.Compressing large files for output and eliminating any printing press issues.Imposing artwork through Signastation to Heidelberg DI presses using a CTP workflow procedure and providing Sherpa Inkjet proofs.Sending approved print PDFs to axe ikon 32… Show more Responsible for pre-press, sending and checking artwork prior to print including amending, imposing using Prinect Sign Station prior to final release to press output.Checking artwork for pre-flight issues via CD, ISDN, or e-mail.Compressing large files for output and eliminating any printing press issues.Imposing artwork through Signastation to Heidelberg DI presses using a CTP workflow procedure and providing Sherpa Inkjet proofs.Sending approved print PDFs to axe ikon 32 (SRA3), Xeikon 50 (A2), Heidelberg and Nexpress machines. Show less