About me

Dear Sir/Madam,

I wish to apply for the position of Midweight Graphic Designer for Stepladder that was advertised on creativepool as of 10 March 2015.

I believe I have the right skills and experience for this role, as over the last few years I have developed my skills as a Graphic Designer in both an agency and in-house environment. I have experience building successful relationships with internal teams, working to meet their requirements to a high standard and on budget. This involves meeting clients to take on briefs, understanding their business needs and giving my advice to create the desired outcome. I have built up a very good rapport with clients and they often come to me for creative guidance/advice. I enjoy being able to work across all channels and I'm equally able to see a project from start to finish. I've worked under pressure in a fast-paced environment, working efficiently and to agreed workflow structures to achieve tight deadlines. I enjoy working with brand guidelines and creatively pushing them to develop the brand even further.

My time at Bourne Leisure has seen me grow from a Junior Designer to a Middleweight Designer and I feel that this job would be ideally suited for the next stage in my career. A key responsibility of mine at Bourne Leisure has been to produce the main Warner Leisure Hotels brochure, this involves coming up with initial concepts, designing layouts for spreads and artworking them to final print including checking/signing off colour proofs. This includes working with internal and external teams, including marketing, agencies, photographers, printers and on site personnel. The brochure takes over 5 months, this required me to create personal timing plans in conjunction with marketing team members, so that each stage of the process all my work was completed on time. This meant keeping key people up to date and having meetings to discuss each stage of the project. This has given me the confidence to manage my own workload and liaise with external printers. Other duties involved with my role has seen me create various campaigns which work across different channels including creative campaigns, DM, logos, leaflets, POS, adverts, web banners, landing pages and emails. This has included building emails, websites using CSS/HTML.

I have recently been given responsibility of looking after workflow, which includes mentoring junior members whilst my line manager is off. This includes checking their work is on brand and that they meet their deadlines. I also have to check timesheets, so that all jobs and workload is cost effective to the company. I was elevated to this role over other members due to my friendly manner when speaking to internal clients, whilst being able to relay any problems with deadlines or issues with any artwork.

I enclose my CV and a PDF of some samples of my work for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Claire Richardson