Designer

Location: Hamilton

Shift: Weekdays

Salary: Competitive with Opportunity for Growth

We are seeking a talented and creative Designer to join our team at our Hamilton site.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make a large percentage of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

The successful candidate will join our Design Studio and, working as part of the current design team, will be responsible for producing visually compelling designs that support our brand, marketing, and communications efforts across various platforms. Working with internal teams across our various sites, you will use your creative skills to help develop product concepts, visuals, packaging, photographic and social media communications, trade advertising and much more in conjunction with some of the biggest brand licenses in the world (from Disney and Warner Bros. to Mars and Thorntons). You should have a strong portfolio, a keen eye for aesthetics, and a passion for turning ideas into effective visual content

This is a fast paced role, where the successful candidate will have a degree level qualification in Graphic Design for Print/Visual Communication with proven experience as a Graphic Designer. They will also require a high degree of proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

This role is based in Hamilton with hybrid working as an option, however a willingness to travel is required, as occasionally may be asked to visit our other sites.

This is a great opportunity for someone to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses. They’ll work closely with a friendly and engaging team from both a site and group perspective, offering opportunities for growth and long-term career development.

This is what you’ll actually do!

As the Designer they will create designs for digital and print media including social media graphics, website assets, email campaigns, brochures, posters, presentations, advertisements, signage, packaging and product component using style guides to create product and packaging concepts for licensor approvals. They will utilise and manage artwork for licensors online approval systems as well as collaborating with marketing, product, and category/sales teams to understand project goals and translate these into visual concepts and required designs for internal and own label brands.

They will be taught the basics of product photography and photographic/media editing and working will be expected to work with the senior media designer and communications manager to maintain and evolve company brand identity across all materials.

Ideally this is you!

• Degree level qualification in Graphic Design for Print/Visual Communication
• Proven experience as a Graphic Designer
• High degree of proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
• Strong portfolio showcasing design skills across various media types.
• Excellent visual, communication, and time-management skills.
• Ability to take constructive feedback and iterate quickly.
• Confident personality, capable of collaborating with a large multi department/site teams
• [Optional: Basic knowledge of photography, photo and video editing is a plus.]
  
  

What's in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
  
  

Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!