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Job Title: Junior Artworker - Initial 12 month Fixed term contract

Our Market & Organisation:

Roper Rhodes are a supplier of bathroom products with an excellent reputation of over 40 years. Our turnover for FY25 was £95m+ and this continues to grow. We are leaders in the bathroom furniture market with a share of around 33% of the total UK market and are also highly innovative with a vitality rate of approx. 34%. The company employs 200+ people across our Bath office/Bristol warehouse. Our customers include major national retailers, national/regional builder’s merchants and a nationwide network of independent bathroom retailers. Products are manufactured to our own in-house designs from sources all over the world. We have a portfolio of three in-house brands as follows:

• Roper Rhodes - https://www.roperrhodes.co.uk/ and Trade Solutions https://tradesolutions.roperrhodes.co.uk/
• Tavistock - https://www.tavistock-bathrooms.co.uk/
• R2 - https://www.r2bathrooms.co.uk/

In addition to this we also produce bathroom products and imagery and content assets for several retailers under their own brand label.

Marketing Department Structure:

• Head of marketing
• Head of creative studio and design
• 3 x graphic designers
• 1 x Junior artworker
• Head of digital marketing
• Digital content manager
• Website executive
• Digital marketing executive
• Senior creative producer
• Creative shoot production assistant
• Set builder (on-site PDC)
• Trade marketing manager

Reports to:

Head of creative studio and design

The role:

You will join a highly creative and fast-moving internal studio producing materials vital to the success of our marketing to customers and consumers alike. Your skills will be used to produce brochures, POS, adverts and packaging. We’re looking for a self starter who can work independently and is willing to work at a consistently fast pace to keep up with the demanding schedule. We are looking for a detail focused Junior Artworker to work alongside our Graphic Designers and Artworkers. This role focuses on the accurate production of print and digital artwork across a wide range of marketing materials and is ideal for someone who enjoys technical artwork production, has strong attention to detail and is interested in developing a long-term career in artwork and creative production.

Responsibilities:

• Accurately produce print ready and digital artwork using existing design templates for catalogues, brochures, flyers, point of sale, labels, packaging, advertisements and event materials
• Ensure all artwork adheres to brand guidelines and maintains consistency across all channels and platforms.
• Prepare and manage artwork files for print and digital production, ensuring technical accuracy, quality control, version control and consistent file naming
• Implement and manage artwork amendments throughout all stages of the approval and sign off process.
• Producing brochures and catalogues using the database publishing solution (EasyCatalog)
• Collaborate with Graphic Designers, the Head of Creative Studio, NPD and the Marketing team to deliver projects to brief and deadline
• Liaise with suppliers and printers to supply accurate print ready artwork files
• Carry out image retouching, including lifestyle roomsets and product cut outs
• Source, update and organise product imagery within the photo library and Digital Asset Management (DAM) system via the PIM platform
• Attend selected internal review workshops to understand how artwork production supports the overall brand and campaign execution
• Ensure project status and tasks are kept up to date within project management software (Wrike).

Skills & Experience:

• 0-2 years experience
• Good working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Understanding of typography, layout and spacing
• Basic knowledge of the print production process
• Strong attention to detail with a methodical approach to tasks
• Ability to interpret and apply brand guidelines across multiple formats
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks across multiple projects
• Comfortable working to tight deadlines and receiving constructive feedback.
• Good working knowledge of PowerPoint, Excel & Word
• Experience using FTP files sharing sites
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Wrike, Monday or Trello.
• Highly organised, efficient and quality driven
• A positive, proactive attitude with a willingness to learn new skills and techniques.
• Comfortable working in a PC based environment
• Applicants should provide a portfolio demonstrating examples of layout work, and artwork production that shows strong attention to detail

Location:

Bath office (hybrid - minimum 3 days on site per week)

Salary:

Salary is up to £27k depending on experience

Initially a 1 year fixed term position with potential to become permanent.

In addition to this we have a company profit related bonus scheme, as well as a Life Assurance scheme.

There is also a competitive contributory pension scheme. Holiday allowance starts at 25 days in the first year (pro rata) plus bank holidays. After 3 years’ service, entitlement will rise to 26 days, and a further additional day is awarded after 5 years’ service, taking entitlement to 27 days (plus bank holidays).

Other benefits include:

• Employee Assistance Program for use by all employees and their immediate families.
• Discounted product purchases.
• Cycle Purchase Scheme.
• Tech Purchase Scheme.
• Discounted electric car charging.
• Free parking

Pay: £27,000.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bath BA1 3JF: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person