Here at Graham & Brown an exciting opportunity has now arisen for a Separation Artist to join the team, based in Blackburn. You will join us in July 2024 on a full-time, maternity cover basis. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £27,670 to £34,587 per annum.
Graham & Brown has had design and colour at the heart of our business for over 75 years and has gone from being just a wallpaper manufacturer to an interior lifestyle brand driven by high-quality products and exceptional customer experience and marketing. With leading brands across the market from the Graham & Brown brand itself to household names like Superfresco Easy and licenses such as Laura Ashley, Joules, and Cath Kidston to name but a few, our offer stretches across products from wallpaper, paint, fabric, curtains, blinds, bed linen and wall art. Our business is built on leading-edge design, across our international businesses and markets, and we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We have been recognised as a "Cool Brand" on seven successive occasions. As a 3rd generation, family-run business, we have the luxury of freedom to implement fresh ideas and to form great working relationships with all our colleagues across the business. We are proudly a carbon-neutral business with a real commitment to sustainability.
We offer a range of excellent benefits, including:
- 32 days' holiday, inclusive of Bank Holidays
- Flexi time working
- Birthday day off
- Generous staff discount on all Graham & Brown products, up to 50%
- Access to colleague discount portal
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous pension, totalling 10%
- Life Assurance
- Free Parking
- Use of company pool cars for company business
- Regular Company social events, brought to us by our very own Fun Squad!
As our Separation Artist, you will create technical separated commercial designs from original artworks according to briefs supplied by the product/design team. You will work as an integral part of our design studio, who collectively work across origination, separation and pre-production, delivering over 500 designs to digital and analogue production per year.
Our Separation Artist will have the following responsibilities:
- Checking digital files to a very high standard to ensure they are balanced and flawless ready for production.
- Separating original artwork into designs suitable for colouring across analogue and digital production.
- Analysing artwork for any design amendments to a high commercial standard.
- Liaising with preproduction to ensure a smooth handover.
- Advising design and product team on practical and cost effective strategies.
- Supporting the design studio to ensure all projects needs are met.
- Advising the stylists on lead times for separation projects.
Experience and skills required by our Separation Artist:
- Experience working with AVA design separation software.
- Experience in Adobe software.
- Experience in the design textile industry.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Highly motivated team player.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Good listening and communication skills.
- Creative strategic thinker.
If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, click 'Apply' now to be considered as our Separation Artist - we'd love to hear from you!
