Creative Artworker

Purpose of the job:
**The role**:
As a detail-oriented and hardworking Creative Artworker/Retoucher you will contribute to the performance of the studio through the delivery of high quality accurate and commercially focussed multi-channel artwork for our regional HH Global clients.

Key Responsibilities:
**COMPETENCIES**
- **Customer Focused**: Goes beyond quality, delivery, reliability and consistency - involves focusing one’s efforts on finding what a customer needs, before the customer themselves are even aware. Using this information and addressing and meeting the requirement.
- **Innovation**: Thinks creatively to ensure business goals are achieved and take actions to develop innovative solutions. Employees may need to find genuinely novel approaches to reduce costs, change working practices and processes, as well as to develop new opportunities.
- **Relationship Building**:Has the ability to build and maintain a network of business related contacts which will be useful in meeting objectives. It implies an understanding of customers’ and the wider market place and using this knowledge to develop networks and relationships.
- **Results Focused**:Ensuring you are a finisher as well as a starter; it involves measuring and monitoring progress and keeping an eye on the bottom line. It is important that when the change of pace is intense, distractions do not take over, and initiatives started are completed.
- **Team Player**:Commitment to the organisations’/ departments’ common goal, a focus on what is best for the business rather than suits the individual. It involves communicating, sharing and supporting and it goes much further than meeting others half way, it is about putting effort into building good working relationships, taking the initiative when others are slow and not being put off by negative responses.
- **Achievement Drive**:Wanting to do the best possible job to improve the performance of the business and the competitive position of HHG in the market place. Always looking for a better way to get things done and puts plans into practice. If improvements can be made, inadequacies will be questioned and actioned.
- **Organisational Awareness**: Understands and learns the power relationships in one’s own organisation or in other organisations (customers, suppliers etc.). Has the ability to identify who are the real decision-makers and the individuals who can influence them; and to predict how new events or situations will affect individuals and groups within the organisation

**STANDARDS**
- ** Health and Safety**
- All employees have duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to take care of themselves and of others that may be affected by their acts or omissions.
- All employees must, at all times, co-operate with their Managers and Supervisors in adhering to legal requirements and to company rules, policies and procedures.
- ** Security**:

- All employees are required to report any security incident and processing malfunctions to their immediate Supervisor or Manager.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
**About you**:

- Experience in fast paced studio environment.
- Multi-skilled in print and digital artwork, colour management and retouch (skin and product).
- Can demonstrate an exceptional understanding and capability in artwork and retouch.
- You are passionate about your work with the ability to create and adapt artwork from concepts and templates while adhering to client guidelines.
- A great sense of design, layout, balance and how to display information.
- You are detail-oriented and proactive in seeking out and correcting any errors in your work. This is an absolute must
- You are able to manage your own projects and work under tight deadlines while maintaining production schedules.
- You enjoy a challenge and figuring out new ways to do things as efficiently as possible.
- You are easy-going, able to multi-task, deal with multiple rounds of: edits, amends, scrapping things and starting over.
- You are flexible and can adapt to quickly changing priorities and tasks.
- You are open to constructive criticism and can maintain a great attitude under pressure.
- You are able to quickly pick-up a client’s brand guidelines and maintain brand consistency.
- You are experienced in proofing text and can go beyond spell-check.
- You have experience in working on both print and digital projects. Some XHTML coding skills are a plus.
- You have expert skills with: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
- You are a true team player and your first priority is the client’s satisfaction.