Designer

Here at Graham & Brown an exciting opportunity has now arisen for a Designer 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 Designer, you will create, edit, quick separate and colour designs on CAD and other general studio duties for design presentation. 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 Designer will have the following responsibilities:

• Creating commercial innovative designs using either CAD or on the board.
• Creating, editing and quickly separating all artwork into finished in repeat designs using photoshop and AVA.
• Generating innovative commercial colourways using AVA.
• Creating full design and colour trend presentations both digitally and physically.
• Supporting the design studio for all studio needs.
• Developing and maintaining good strong relationships with our key customers, licenses and suppliers.
• Independently bringing new trends and design ideas to the design team.
• Liaising with the design studio and commercial team to create finished commercial designs.

With an abilityto work efficiently and effectively under tight deadlines you will have a willingness for flexibility to complete tasks. You will use your own initiative and apply your creative knowledge to create commercial designs.

Experience and skills required by our Designer:

• Experience working with AVA design quick separation software.
• Superior colour vision and good eye for aesthetic detail.
• 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 Designer - we’d love to hear from you!