Junior Designer

Junior Designer

Do you keep up to date with all things fashion?
Do you know your Chloe from your Balmain? 
Do you love all things luxury retail? 
If YES, we may have the role for you… 
 
Luxury department store, Harvey Nichols, is searching for a new Junior Designer to join its thriving creative department in our Head Office in London – Knightsbridge. Our culture is based on inclusivity; we embrace diversity. Whoever you are, Harvey Nichols has a place for you.  

How we reward your hard work… 

At Harvey Nichols, we champion career development and are passionate about our people. We will do all we can to support your journey and career path with us. Alongside this you will have access to a world of amazing benefits such as. 

• Up to 40% off fashion  
• Up to 40% off hospitality, foodmarket and hampers 
• 30% off beauty and perfumery, wine and spirits 
• Clothing allowance 

You will also have access to charity days, a season ticket/bike loan; learning and development opportunities; to our Employee Assistance Program - Retail Trust and recognition schemes and the opportunity to join one of our employee groups – Wellbeing, Diversity & Inclusion and Sustainability. These are just some of the reasons people join and stay! 

About the role… 

This is an exciting and innovative role for a creative and driven Junior Designer who we are looking to come on board and help elevating the Harvey Nichols brand, across all our multichannels. The right candidate will thrive within a fast-paced and innovative environment, preferably with a luxury retail background and will work within the Creative & Marketing department. You will deliver inventive and strategically considered and exciting design on both a day-to-day and larger campaign level.  

• To develop and take design ownership of the Harvey Nichols design footprint, supporting the Design Manager and the Senior Designer in the vision and development of Harvey Nichols design and content.
• Design and develop high-quality work for digital content, emails, website, affiliates, and social media assets.
• Lead and manage BAU tasks briefed into the creative team from wider departments, along with seasonal briefs and larger projects set by the business.
• Implement seasonal brand guidelines and champion brand consistency across all digital touchpoints, ensuring all design outputs adhere to brand guidelines.
• Comfortable working with CMS design systems and able to understand how to design creative content within those systems.
• Meet tight deadlines, handling workloads in a calm and professional manner.
• Stay fully abreast of new trends, technologies and advances in digital design and identify opportunities to apply these. Be aware of emerging fashion and cultural trends and be adept at interpreting those into cutting-edge creative design, providing advice and guidance to the team.                        

Is this you?  
We are looking for individuals who embrace diversity, love a challenge, are passionate about luxury retail and are looking for something uniquely different.

• Confident to bring strong and unique digital design ideas to the creative team.
• Knowledge around mobile and desktop web usability best practices, responsive and adaptive design alongside a holistic approach to overall usability and design.
• Have a high-level skill set with all Adobe creative suite such as Photoshop, XD, Illustrator, and After Effects – HTML knowledge is appreciated but none-essential
• Able to design compelling, luxury editorial content.
• Passion & purpose: Must be comfortable working in a rapidly expanding, highly dynamic/flexible environment.
• Decision maker: must be comfortable assessing situations and making decisions quickly.
• Organisation: you will need to be organised and methodical, a self-starter who can manage your own work.
• Attention to detail: Apply a forensic approach to each stage of the design process to ensure an ideal 'right-first-time' outcome.
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal.

Where do I sign? 
 
If you are already thinking of what you will wear on your first day (no we don’t have uniforms) and this role catches your eye, hit the “apply” button below to kick-start your journey with us.