Next: Senior Retoucher- 6 month FTC

Photoshop Editor is needed in London, United Kingdom.

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Client: Next

Location: London, UK

Contract: Full Time, 6 Months Fixed Term

About the role:

At Next we have a great opportunity for a Senior Retoucher to join our Premier Park studio in London working with Home imagery for both Next and external partner brands. This role is a temporary 6 month contract within a vibrant team. You will be an expert in your field of retouching and produce amazing high quality imagery for the Next family of websites. This is an extremely fast-paced role that covers all our in-house retouching teams and studios to maintain Next’s vision and creative beliefs. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is creative & proactive, either looking to step up into a Senior Retoucher role or has experience within a similar position.

You will:

• Deliver content to the highest quality for the Next customer aligned to our brand principles & creative direction.
• Maintain a clear understanding of the workflow for retouching, look for efficiencies and new possibilities to improve the process and streamline production
• Provide strong guidance to all levels of the Studio from a retouch perspective in line with your Team Lead.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with your Team lead and senior management within Next Studios.
• Monitor standards to ensure consistency and continually improve quality
• Oversee the quality of all imagery within the team ensuring the quality and output is consistent and to the highest level required
• Be responsible for skills training and development of other retouchers in collaboration with Team Lead
• Provide strong, clear and aspirational guidance and support to the studio team from a retouch standpoint.
• Work collaboratively with other Senior Retouchers within the Studio and promote a learning culture and positive team dynamic
• Maintain constant awareness of new techniques/processes to enhance the retouch workflow
• Work closely with the shoot teams to ensure the best possible image is captured in the most efficient way and suggest alternatives
• Consistently strive to think outside the box with all processes and projects showing initiative and innovation.
• Communicate effectively with your Team Lead to establish clear, recognizable and achievable goals.
• Be flexible to work at other Next studios, external studios and on location when required

About you:

• Expert knowledge of retouching techniques is essential in both Ecomm and marketing imagery
• Extremely high competence of using the latest Photoshop software and all image retouching practices with excellent ability in rebuilding patterns, working with textiles and a working knowledge of processing raw files.
• This role centres around homeware editorial-style retouching - relevant experience is a bonus.
• Able to interpret a retouching brief with a commercial understanding and brand awareness and have the confidence to train others on retouching techniques.
• High competence in accurate colour correction using physical and digital swatches
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Good experience of using MAC Operating systems.
• Experience working within a large creative studio environment.
• Creative flair and passion for visual composition
• Comfortable with a highly pressured and rapidly changing environment.
• At least 5 years relevant experience.
• Full UK driving licence

About Us:

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!