Looking for a role in the new year? Look no further!

Are you a creative visionary with a passion for transforming ideas into captivating print and digital mediums? Join Reach plc as a Creative Designer, where your talent will shine across both print and digital platforms.

You’ll be at the forefront of our design journey, collaborate closely with our dynamic team, ensuring every project is executed with excellence. Embrace this opportunity to make your mark in a company that values creativity and innovation!

We are looking for our Senior Creative Designer to start with us on a 12 month maternity cover contract in January 2025, and this can be fully remote or a hybrid working position from our Canary Wharf hub. We are flexible to work around your needs and preferences!

Please ensure that your application includes a link to your portfolio. 

So, who are we?

We are Reach Plc, you might not have heard of us but we have probably met without you even realising it. We are home to the UK and Ireland’s most iconic digital platforms, magazines and newspapers. From the Mirror, Daily Express and OK!, to our regional titles such as the Liverpool Echo, BirminghamLive and the Manchester Evening News (plus lots more), our brands and the stories we cover are as varied as our people. We help all kinds of people share experiences through our stories because we believe this is what makes us human.

Oh, and we should probably also mention that with a monthly readership of 47 million people, Reach is the largest commercial publisher in the UK. At Reach, not only will you feel better understood, you will also feel you understand other people better too.
 

As our Creative Designer, you'll set the standard for creativity by leading key projects to an agency-level quality. Collaborate with management to plan, organise, and execute all tasks efficiently. You'll engage with teams across our entire Commercial operation, including National & Regional Customer Marketing, Events, and Editorial teams. This role offers a fun and diverse experience, where your creative passion can truly shine. 

Other responsibilities include:

• Fully interpret briefs and achieve the right creative result.
• Provide colleagues with assistance required to deliver workload.
• Clear reporting to the senior management team.
• Use all agreed programs, fonts, systems & processes.
• Effectively work towards deadlines, ensuring all work is accurate and error free.
• All design & layout work is of a consistently high standard, fit for purpose taking into account the digital and print production processes.
• All work is distributed to the vendor in the correct format using the agreed delivery mechanism.
• Have good relations with sales staff, Project Managers and stakeholders across other departments.

• We are looking for a multimedia designer, you will be passionate and creative, with the ability to work across a large variety of mediums both nationally and regionally. 
• You will have demonstrable experience of working within a commercial creative studio.
• Your graphic design skills will be first class, and you will be proficient in the use of all Adobe Creative Suite software.
• Proficiency in either Premier Pro/After Effects is essential. 
• Your portfolio will provide evidence of consistently high quality design and layout skills. You will possess good knowledge of current design trends and demonstration of contemporary design styles and techniques across all creative work. 
• We are looking for excellent typographical skills.
• You will have a firm grasp of deadlines, with the ability to deliver what is required to a high standard, within studio processes.
• We are looking for an individual who is adaptable, being able to respond positively and quickly to unexpected business demands and taking on board new approaches, tasks, systems, working practices and additional responsibilities as required.

What can we offer you?

We are offering a competitive salary and benefits including;

• Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%
• 25 days’ holiday per year when you join. After three, five and ten years’ service with Reach, you’ll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Giving back day - an additional day’s leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
• Enhanced family leave - including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you’ll be eligible after just six months’ employment
• Private Healthcare Cash Plan - free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
• As one of the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers everyone’s invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
• Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 employee assistance programme (EAP) for you and your nearest and dearest
• Awesome career opportunities - you’ll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
• We are also a member of the 30% Club, a global campaign aimed at increasing gender diversity at board and senior management levels

Reach plc believes diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.