Homeware Print Designer

At Marks & Spencer, we're on a mission to deliver an inspiring, trend-led Home offer that customers love. We're now looking for a talented and experienced Print Designer to join our Homeware team and help bring our Kitchens & Home vision to life.

As part of our dynamic Design team, you'll play a key role in creating exciting, on-trend print and pattern designs that elevate our product and strengthen our Home brand identity. This is an opportunity to push creative boundaries, influence product success and contribute to the acceleration of our Home vision.

Working within a fast-paced and collaborative environment, you'll translate trends and customer insight into commercially successful print designs across a variety of home categories. You'll partner closely with Buying, Merchandising and Product Development teams to ensure designs are beautifully executed from concept to launch.

What we're looking for:

• A strong portfolio demonstrating trend awareness, creativity and commercial impact
• Excellent CAD and technical skills
• A collaborative mindset and the confidence to contribute ideas and direction
• Passion for design and a drive to take product to the next level

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

What's in it for you:

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever-evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever, and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special:

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Deliver Print / graphic requirements in the Kitchens category
• Deliver key print looks and stories across departments in line with seasonal Design Briefs
• Manage and deliver prints through the full product development process, creating confident print statements from concept through to production
• Maintain consistently high standards from initial print concept through to tech-pack-ready artwork, submitted to the Sourcing Office via PLM
• Apply in-depth, up-to-date knowledge of industry print techniques to deliver the best product outcome, working closely with the appropriate Technologist

Who you are:

• Expert in the field of print design with significant design experience
• Relevant Design experience within kitchenware, homeware or hard goods categories or relevant commercial experience
• Awareness of relevant manufacturing processes and quality considerations
• Strong trend awareness with the ability to interpret trends in a way that is right for the M&S customer
• High level of proficiency in relevant design software, including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign (Rhino/ SolidWorks an advantage)
• Curiosity in AI

Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted, and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen. We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.