Junior designer (6-month fixed term contract)

Closing date: 16th June 2025

Salary: £27,000 per annum

Working pattern: Hybrid - minimum of two days per week in the office; up to three days per week working from home

Department: Editorial

Reporting to: Art Director, Studio Press

Location: 5th Floor, HYLO, 105 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8LZ

Bring your design and project management skills to this trend-led publishing imprint!

Bonnier Books UK is looking for a talented and highly creative junior designer to join our license and trend-led imprint, Studio Press. Studio is the home of numerous best-selling Disney, Marvel and Star Wars titles for all ages from pre-school to adult, as well as a range of trend-led pop culture books, plus the best-selling Ultimate Football Heroes series. You will also be undertaking some more general work across the Children’s Trade illustrated backlist, working on special sales and reuse projects.

The junior designer will project manage and creatively guide the creation of books, making sure all books are produced to the design quality and technical accuracy required, and are delivered on schedule.

Key responsibilities

• Guide and coordinate the books in line with the creative briefs, making sure all files are coordinated through the correct design approval workflow for the team.
• Research, brief, layout, art edit and sign-off on a wide range of books across different formats and novelties to make the best product possible.
• Make sure all files are to the technical accuracy required and to the design quality during all stages – final files, plotter and advance stages.
• Research and suggest ideas for the future publishing list, showing awareness of marketplace and trends. Keep aware of pop culture and emerging issues.
• Project-manage books in partnership with Editorial and Production, making sure key milestones are kept to and final files are supplied on time.
• Liaise with and manage 3rd-party contributors, including packagers, illustrators and other freelance agents that are needed to create a project.
• Problem-solve and/or escalate problems in the correct manner and in good time to allow schedules to be hit. Other ad hoc duties as assigned.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Excellent technical skills in key software (Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud)
• Experience managing illustrators, photographers, designers and agents
• In addition to being a fantastic designer, you will:
  • Be solution-focused have excellent organisational skills
  • Have experience with people management
  • Have the ability to maintain schedules and meet deadlines and liaise closely with the editorial, sales and production teams to ensure that all projects are delivered on time and to the highest standard

Company benefits

• Private health insurance
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Lively social committee hosting regular eventsGroup Life cover - including 24-hour GP service
• Company-funded gym membership for all trade staff
• Comprehensive staff training and mentorship programmes
• Flexible working and flexible hours from day one of employment
• Additional holiday allowance accrued for long service – and a full bonus week of holiday to celebrate your 10th year at BBUK
• Enhanced family leave - with equal six months’ paid leave for all new parents
• Employee assistance programme available to all employees and their families
• Dedicated volunteering hours each year to support charities promoting literacy and reading for pleasure
• Cycle to work scheme with bike storage and changing facilities on-site at our London HQ
• Wellbeing programme and daily benefits such as fresh fruit and porridge in the office

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.