Assistant Design Project Manager - Beyond The Book : Job Details

Are you looking to start your career within a creative production house? We are looking for an Assistant Design Project Manager to join this highly creative production house. This is a trainee role where you will be supported in developing your production language and capabilities over the longer term. They are based just off the M40 into Warwickshire (so a driving licence is essential) and the starting salary, dependent on experience, will be £23-25k.

Our Client

Our client is a very well-established production house, based in Southeast Warwickshire with parking on site. This role will be full-time on-site due to the collaborative nature of the role and the training element of the position.

They work with luxury brands or brands that reach consumers who seek out luxury in all they buy. Mainly this is within the retail, medical and motorsports space.

Their clients come to them for visual solutions that enhance products and structures and spaces to the highest level. They are a medium sized team of 18, currently divided into the Production, Digital, Installations and Build teams with client services & project management. The Production team works on high-end signage, pop-ups, model making, large format graphics, POS and displays.

The Role

As Assistant Design Project Manager, you will be embedded right in the heart of the Project Team. You'll have a huge variety of challenges and tasks, working on layouts and customers' designs for digital use, but also for large format print and graphics, meaning you'll be creating and overseeing work through the print and finishing department. You will also be responsible for being project support for the team - for example, booking installers, logging jobs onto the system and arranging for work to be despatched. This is a training role and you will learn and have access to tonnes of knowledge and mentors, processes and machinery to develop your production language and capability.

About You

Our client is looking for someone with the foundations and potential to be a great Design Project Manager.

This would include:

• Knowledge of Adobe Suite (particularly Illustrator and InDesign)
• A great eye for design layouts and visuals
• Attention to detail
• Being organised
• Great attitude and willingness to learn
• Appreciate variety and autonomy (and maybe also music, laughing and dogs)
• Driving Licence (Essential)

Plenty more to tell you, so if you like the sound of all of the above, please send your CV to apply.