Assistant Graphic Designer - Store Signage & Graphics

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni\-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people\-led, innovative and customer\-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Assistant Graphic Designer \- Store Development \- Signage \& Graphics

Responsible to: Head of Store Development

Department: Property Centre of Excellence (CoE)

Location: Bury GHQ

Direct Reports: Senior Creative Manager

Role Purpose:

Assistant Graphic Designer role sits within the

The Graphics team which is part of the larger Property Design Team. Working alongside the Retail Designers the team’s primary focus is to design creative and on\-brand environmental graphics, wayfinding signage, permanent branded display fixtures and POS for new and existing retail stores. It's imperative that our physical store environments look fresh, on brand and are commercially competitive to ensure we offer our customers an immersive, tailored shopping experience.

The Graphics team also provide support to the Groups global expansion by designing various presentations and communication collateral to help inform landlords of our unique proposition.

Key Duties / Responsibilities:

• Creating innovative and inspiring environmental graphics and signage solutions for UK and International store projects


• Delivery of design updates for signage and graphics within the existing store portfolio


• Production of on\-brand presentations and communication collateral


• Creation of print ready/manufacturing artwork


• Liaising with key project stakeholders from the internal departments (retail, marketing, multichannel, merchandising etc.)


• Image manipulation and retouching


• Assistance and support to all team members

Experience:

• Practical experience within Graphic/Industrial Design or signage sectors


• Past experience of working within a Retail environment or has understanding of Retail process, or may have knowledge and experience of working with a retailer client within a manufacturing capacity


• Proven experience at various stages of the design process, from concept to implementation


• Worked on multiple design projects at any one time.


• This could be demonstrated through past work experience or projects delivered at university

Desirable Requirements:

• Ability to generate 3D renders using Sketch Up and Podium plug in


• Ability to create digital content using After Effects or equivalent


• Experience of working within the signage industry


• Working knowledge of Figma, Claude \& Gemini are desirable

Qualifications:

• Degree in Graphic Design/Industrial Design or other relevant qualification

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Thank you for your time

\#JD

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