Junior Designer, Licensing
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Sywell
Job title: Junior Designer
Location: Sywell
Working pattern: Flexible, hybrid – 2 days per week in the office and 3 days per week at home
Department: Publishing
General Summary
We’re looking for a junior designer to project-manage and creatively guide the creation of books within the licensing team, making sure all books are produced to the design quality and technical accuracy required, and on schedule.
Key responsibilities
CREATIVE
- Creatively guide and coordinate the books in line with the creative briefs, making sure all files are coordinated through the correct design approval workflow for the team.
- Research, brief, layout, art edit and sign-off on a wide range of books across different formats and novelties to make the best product possible.
- Work with Licensor assets, adhering to relevant style guides
- Make sure all files are to the technical accuracy required and to the design quality during all stages – final files, plotter and advance stages.
- Make sure all Igloo books are produced to house design style and fulfil the in-house creative brief.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Project-manage books in partnership with their ‘publishing partner’ within the allocated team, making sure key milestones are kept to and final files are supplied on time.
- Project-manage a range of books, of the appropriate number and complexity.
- Liaise and manage 3rd-party contributors, including packagers, illustrators and other freelance agents that are needed to create a project.
- Liaise with Licensors and use Licensor systems, as appropriate
- Problem-solve and/or escalate problems in the correct manner and in good time to allow schedules to be hit.
- All other adhoc duties as assigned
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
Qualifications and Experience
- Good technical skills on key software (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Good people management and project management skills
- Good problem-solving and communication skills
- A dynamic, proactive team player
Great Place to Work
Competitive Salary
Working with a team of passionate, talented people
Internal learning and development programmes
Career Development opportunities
Fun social events
About the company
At Bonnier Books UK, we believe that every book matters. We love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together. We offer a nurturing home for our authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere. We know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and our purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to us becoming one of the country’s leading publishers.
The offspring of Bonnier Books, a family-owned top-15 world publisher headquartered in Sweden, we are inspired by a rich literary heritage but not bound by convention. We think in generations rather than quarters, and strive always to operate in an open, curious way that contributes to the future of the planet and its people. As a climate-neutral publisher we are an active participant in the Science Based Target initiative, committed to a strategy to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.
Hayley Hale | Contact Person
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