Senior Artworker & Retouch SpecialistHead Office

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In a high-volume, fast-paced environment within ASDA’s in-house studio, Studio368, you will serve as a Senior Artworker and Repro Specialist, playing a pivotal role in bridging the gap between creative design and final production. Your core responsibility will be to transform conceptual design files into print, digital and cross-platform-ready assets with technical precision and strict adherence to brand guidelines.

As the guardian of all photography entering Studio368 for print, you will ensure all imagery is of the highest quality, aligned with its intended purpose and easily accessible to stakeholders via our Content Hub. You will be responsible for the retouching and colour correction of all photographic assets, ensuring consistency, accuracy and excellence across every visual output. Collaborating with both internal and external designers, you will develop layouts and templates, preparing them for artwork and print production. You will also be responsible for delivering media-ready artwork across all brand communication channels, including point-of-sale materials, advertising, and marketing collateral.

What you’ll do

• Develop and adapt artwork for a variety of outputs (print, digital, social, POS, packaging) with technical accuracy and brand alignment.
• Enhance, edit and manipulate images to meet creative, commercial, or technical requirements.
• Translate creative concepts into production-ready assets across various formats and platforms.
• Ensure all artwork complies with brand guidelines, maintaining visual consistency across campaigns and channels.
• Perform detailed pre-flight checks and proofing, identifying and resolving typographic, layout, or colour profile issues.

Studio & Collaboration

• Collaborate with designers, project managers, copywriters, photographers, and external production teams to ensure smooth project delivery.
• Liaise with printers and ensure print specifications (bleeds, stock, crop marks, CMYK/RGB profiles) are correct.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, meeting deadlines in a fast-paced studio environment.

Mentorship & Leadership

• Support and guide junior and freelance members of the team, offering technical mentorship and creative support.
• Share knowledge of best practices, file preparation, DAM usage, and production techniques.
• Promote a collaborative and supportive studio environment.

Photography management

• Communicate regularly with photographers, campaign planners, and content teams to ensure smooth photography workflows.
• Provide early feedback on first-stage photography, raising layout or technical issues before final assets are delivered.
• Spot-check photography uploaded to the Content Hub, providing feedback or raising issues where necessary.

Print & Proofing

• Act as the guardian of studio repro equipment (Epson printer and GMG system).

• Maintain calibration and cleanliness of repro tools and manage stock levels (e.g., paper, ink), raising purchase orders when needed.
• Provide high-quality printouts for mock-ups and campaign reviews.
• Liaise with GMG engineers to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.

Digital Asset Management (DAM)

• Maintain and organise assets in the Studio368 DAM, ensuring all photography and templates are properly uploaded, tagged, and linked.

• Create and distribute contact sheets for photography and template rollouts.
• Lead regular meetings with the DAM team to share feedback and suggest improvements.
• Train team members on proper DAM usage and provide ongoing support and troubleshooting.

"Let's find out about you"

Knowledge:

• Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite – principally InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop (including MS Office Suite).
• Clear understanding of colour profiles and outputs.
• Good working-knowledge of Digital Artwork processes, their limitations and needs within the process.
• Excellent working-knowledge of production cycle and print technology. Must be able to understand print and imaging processes and know their limitations.
• Good knowledge of IT and server systems, mailing, printing and networking.
• Experience of working on ATL, Direct Mail, POS, and general print work.
• Strong layout and typographical skills and knowledge of fonts.

Communicating and Influencing:

• Your role will be to develop an effective working relationship with internal colleagues primarily in the Customer function and have the ability to work accurately and provide consistent, requiring you to build and maintain an extensive network of peers and contacts up to Senior Director level.
• You will comfortably challenge, confront, and solve difficult situations whilst maintaining solid internal and external connections, influencing, and negotiating at the highest levels across the function and with third party suppliers.
• You will achieve results through inspiring and motivating your peers to act and deliver against the strategy.

Freedom to Think and Act:

• This role requires a high degree of autonomous thinking as you set and deliver your work using your experience, guided by broad principles and direction from your manager and production team peers. You have the freedom to define your own plan using own judgement to achieve success.

• Proven track record as a Creative Artworker within a design agency/studio environment. Keen eye for design layout, balance and understanding of what makes effective creative. Understanding of the briefing processes and ability to meet deadlines in a fast- paced environment. Ability to understand the scope of the brief, conduct effective time-management to ensure your work is running to the critical path. Demonstrating competency & capability in artwork production. In-depth knowledge of print/repro processes. Demonstrated planning and organisational skills. Enthusiasm and ability to work as part of a team.

Who you’ll work with

• Studio Manager,Studio QC & Production Trafficker, Studio Designer,Project Planners,External CE agency partners, Photographers, Print and repro partners

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves