Mid-weight creative artworker
We’re On the Beach! Since 2003, we've been rewriting the rules of how people discover, book, and experience their perfect getaway. What started as connecting people to short-haul beach holidays has evolved into something much bigger - premium beach destinations, long-haul adventures, and vibrant city breaks – and that’s just the beginning of our story.
We send around two million holidaymakers on their dream breaks every year. And we're still growing.
Powered by our deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit, proprietary tech, curiosity and our incredible people, we’re accelerating - delivering best in class technology, the ultimate holiday app, and experiences that keep our customers coming back for more.
Ready to build the future of travel with us?
About the Role
As a Midweight Creative Artworker at On the Beach, you'll play an important part in keeping our brand showing up, clearly, consistently and at pace across our marketing channels. A lot of the day to day will be focussed on building, adapting and rolling out campaign assets whilst working closely with others across the marketing team.
This role will suit someone self-motivated and proactive, able to run projects and complete tasks independently. It is a role for a creative thinker who can generate fresh ideas while working within brand guardrails, with a customer first mindset. You will be used to thinking about how messaging sits and position to optimise impact of assets. Its a role for someone who is calm under pressure and comfortable working in a fast-moving trading environment.
What you’ll be doing day to day
Creating high-quality, on-brand creative assets for use across On the Beach website. Marketing channels, partnership comms and brand campaigns, ensuring visual consistency and impact across all consumer touchpoints.
Supporting the creative development of campaign look and feel within On the Beach brand
guidelines, translating concepts into scalable, channel-ready assets, working closely with the creative
lead.
Delivering full suites of campaign artwork across web, CRM, social, paid media, and commercial
partnerships, aligned with the marketing trade plan ensuring timely delivery based on prioritisation
of workload.
Working closely with the Online Design team to maintain consistency of look and feel across the full
customer journey.
Taking written and verbal briefs from various marketing stakeholders, working from initial creative
direction through to final production, ensuring accuracy, speed and attention to detail.
Managing multiple projects simultaneously, working efficiently under time constraints to meet trading
and campaign deadlines.
Contributing creative thinking to new campaigns, seasonal moments and always-on activity.
Ensuring all assets are optimised appropriately for their intended platforms and formats.
Maintaining and evolve shared design systems, templates and asset libraries to improve speed and
consistency
Ensuring accurate logging and storage of design assets for review and future use
Skills Knowledge & Experience
You’ll be a great addition to our team if you have the following skills, knowledge and experience
Experience in a graphic design role, ideally within an in-house marketing team busy agency studio
working across multiple brands
Strong portfolio demonstrating campaign development and execution across multiple digital
channels.
Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
Ideally proficient / working knowledge of Figma.
Strong understanding of digital design best practice, including web, CRM and paid social formats.
Experience creating campaign look and feel within established brand guidelines.
Ability to work at pace and deliver high volumes of assets without compromising quality.
Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing deadlines.
Clear communication skills and confidence collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Desirable
Experience working within travel, ecommerce or a high-volume promotional environment.
Basic motion or animation skills (e.g. After Effects).
Video editing / post production skills
Experience working with design systems and scalable templates.
What to expect from our interview process
We’ll run a multiple stage interview process, one stage of which will be an in-person interview at our fabulous Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre.
We want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist.
Ways of working
Our full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work.
We also have hybrid working so we all work from home and from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. As a team we are in the office 2 days per week (usually Tuesday & Wednesday).
Our benefits
We might be biased but we think our colleagues are pretty great. They're the people that have made On the Beach what it is today and continue to make it vibrant and successful tomorrow. That's why we offer a competitive benefits package, known as our Beach Perks, to all On the Beach colleagues.
These include:
25 days holiday plus your birthday off
Generous discount on holidays, plus you will receive 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you're away on your On the Beach package holiday
Access to Learnerbly learning platform, plus workshops, courses and professional qualifications
Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support
Employee Assistance Programme and free access to counselling
Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan
Company Sick Pay scheme
Regular wellbeing events
Gym discount
Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
Death in Service cover
Onsite subsidised coffee shop
The Sandbox (our very own bar)
Food and drink discounts across a number of venues in Manchester City Centre
Regular social events
Cycle to Work scheme
- Department
- Marketing
- Role
- Brand
- Locations
- Manchester
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About On the Beach
We're On the Beach! One of the UK's largest online package holiday specialists, with significant opportunities for growth.
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