Midweight Integrated Designer

Abel & Cole has pioneered organic, ethical, and sustainable food delivery for over 30 years. Doing things better is our bread and butter; from saving over 60 million plastic bags by using reusable boxes for our food deliveries, to finding alternatives to plastic long before it hit the headlines. We are forever challenging ourselves to find the most positive way to do business and want everyone to eat organic because it’s one way to save the future. It’s these values that enabled us to become B Corp certified; an optional audit we’ve gone through to recognize how we put people and planet before profit, as well as help us find room for further improvement. We’re looking for more people to join our team of almost 600, to share our passion for doing the right thing even bigger and better than we do already. In a fast-paced and competitive market, we know it’s our people who make the difference. We’ve learned how important it is to recognize, develop, and promote from within; and that trusting people lets them come up with the best ideas and that helps our entrepreneurial spirit to thrive.

Role Summary: The Midweight Integrated Designer will work in the Brand & Creative Team, Marketing Department. The Senior Project & Production Manager will manage the workload of the Midweight Integrated Designer, supplying briefs that are planned into two-week sprints.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• You will collaborate closely with the rest of the creative team, from studio to copy, and follow the content production process.
• Create best practice examples of the brand guidelines in all designs, from print to digital.
• Manage multiple briefs in your workload and have full ownership of delivering those on time and to a technically accurate standard.
• Evolve your designs using feedback from the Creative Lead, Head of Marketing, and briefing teams, approaching feedback constructively.
• Have a thorough understanding of the Abel & Cole audience segments and commercial objectives of your briefs, using this information to inform your design choices.
• You will own executing your campaigns across all customer touchpoints, spanning print, email, and web.
• Confidently taking on conceptual briefs and collaborating with other creatives, presenting your concepts with strong rationale.
• Leading on giving creative direction to the studio team when shooting assets for your design briefs.
• Confidently executing print communication designs end-to-end, from initial concepts through to print specs, feedback, amendments, and sending to print, with minimal input and amendments.
• Confidently executing creative and engaging email communications across the customer journey, from templated weekly promotional emails to new designs for ad-hoc brand communications, with minimal input and amendments.
• Confidently executing web designs end-to-end, including weekly homepage updates, redesigning content landing pages, or evolving seasonal landing pages, from initial design through feedback, amendments, and deployment.
• Confidently executing blog coding designs end-to-end, creating blog image assets, coding and linking copy, making feedback amendments, and setting live.
• Confidently executing social media designs end-to-end, from creating concepts and designs to feedback amendments and final assets.
• Proactively stay abreast of content industry updates, competitor activities, and inspirational case studies, sharing insights with the wider team.

About You:

• Your portfolio demonstrates your experience in executing campaigns/projects across print, email, and web, showcasing your skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver) and photo editing.
• Knowledge of Figma is beneficial.
• You are adept at conceptual thinking, presenting rationale for your design choices.
• You have a strong sense of design and composition, with attention to detail, accuracy, and consistency across all devices and channels.
• You are self-motivated, organized, accountable, and communicate proactively, capable of handling multiple deadlines under pressure.
• You have strong HTML and CSS skills, with an understanding of UX and web performance optimization.
• You have an approachable, collaborative attitude and enjoy working within a team and a wider company.
• You have a keen interest in design, retail, food industries, and sustainability, and a love of food and organics.

Want To See More: Check us out at: [website links], and Instagram. Abel & Cole promotes equal opportunities for all employees. We want our employees to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. Members of staff are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying — a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully. To support Abel & Cole’s commitment to inclusion and diversity, we ask that you remove all personal details from your CV, including home address and place of education.