Creative Artworker - The Barn, Leeds

Creative Artworker Opportunity at The Barn, Arla Foods

Hybrid working pattern

When strolling through the city, do you ever stop in front of ads and think: “I wonder what material that ad is printed on?”. Are you a passionate creative with a love for food? Do you want to grow your skills in an agency that fosters an entrepreneurial spirit and is part of a mature global organisation?

Arla's in-house agency, The Barn, was established to help strengthen Arla’s global and local brands. Today, we have a full creative team specialised in concept development and execution across our network agency which includes production teams, project managers, account managers, and data and strategy specialists to help us create impactful consumer experiences. We do that by knowing our audiences and their world, the context they meet us in, and the media placement. And now, we are very excited to expand our agency offering to support our brands in the world of Shopper Marketing based out of our The Barn office in Leeds.

Does this sound like you?

As the creative artworker it’s your responsibility to bring the creative ideas to life for both digital and print media. You have the technical knowledge, and you know what’s needed to get things ready for publication. You’re a natural problem solver and a master of translating creatives through various touchpoints, ensuring on-brand creative consistency along the way with meticulous attention to detail. You won’t be all technical and practical though — you’re also a passionate creative capable of design conceptualisation, and a great sounding board for developing ideas.

You in a nutshell:

• Proven experience in a similar role: you’ve previously been at a creative shopper agency or in-house department.
• Solid experience in artwork: you’ve worked with both print and digital platforms.
• Unparalleled skills in Adobe Creative Suite: you know Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator by heart and have good working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat and interactive pdf production. If you know your way around Premiere and After Effects too, that’s a bonus.
• Deep understanding of Adobe Acrobat: interactive pdf? No problem.
• Expert typography knowledge: space, layout, and an eye for details.
• Ability to create print and digital-ready artwork: a strong knowledge of print processes.
• Interest in food: cooking and the nuances of culinary experiences makes you happy.

Here’s your new role

You’ll have a central role in the development of the shopper creative team. You’ll take the lead delivering media-ready artwork working with the shopper art director, account manager, and specialists within the shopper team. You’ll be part of a team responsible for developing concepts for category, brand, and product campaigns, and ensure delivery of on-brand media-ready assets. Our clients include global Arla brands such as Lurpak, Castello and Arla Protein, but also highly strategic UK brands like Anchor Butter, and Arla Cravendale.

As part of working in our agency, you’ll be:

• Responsible for translating strategic shopper creative to various touchpoints.
• Participating in creative workshops to develop new ideas and concepts with the team.
• Developing brand campaigns, follow creative direction to build product campaigns and activation ideas.
• Supporting creatives within the team and collaborating with colleagues to deliver campaigns of the highest quality for the required touchpoints.
• Executing and preparing work for both marketing materials and client presentations.
• Taking a creative layout to finished artwork, working with the creative department.
• Collaborating with the art director and account manager in deconstructing briefs, and transform them into actionable requirements with advice on time estimations.
• Sharing your worldview, your learnings, and observations, and taking part in a creative team culture.
• Taking ownership and using your entrepreneurial mindset to make things work in an emerging department.

And here’s what’s in it for you

The opportunity to join a different kind of network agency with full in-house capabilities spanning across our 9 locations covering everything from media buying/planning, tech/development, creative, strategy, and on-site production studio.

We believe in holistic campaign solutions that cover all touchpoints and deliver on single-minded objectives.

We are fiercely ambitious and evaluate our work both on creative quality, performance, and saliency. But, unlike most agencies, we also offer healthy and sustainable work/life balance and truly flexible working. And not least, you’ll work with a bunch of pretty nice and creative go-doers.

Application

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been waiting for, we’d love to hear from you! We process applications continuously and close the job opening once the right candidate has been found.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Olivia Pine, Talent Acquisition Partner at Arla Foods. The closing date for this position is the 11th of November.

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed, we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?