Assistant Post-Production Manager (Mat Cover)

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  • London  
    London, United Kingdom
    perm, freelance, temp to perm  
  • Company
    Selfridges  
    Start date
    ASAP  
    Duration
    Contract  
    Wage
    Competitive plus benefits
  • Closing date
    30 November 2022  
    Posted on
    17 November 2022  

Selfridges has always been much more than a shop. We’re a social space where everyone is welcome and feels a sense of belonging, a creative playground where culture and commerce collide, and an experimental hub where you can discover the most innovative and sustainable ideas in retail. We’re here to help make the world brighter. And you can be an important part of this. We’ll talk more about the role below, but before we get to that, let’s share with you the good stuff.

Rewards and benefits:

Life at Selfridges is dynamic, exciting, and always evolving. As well as working with some of the most cutting-edge, iconic and boundary-pushing brands, designers and creatives, we also offer our team members opportunities to help make a positive difference through our network of communities, both within and outside Selfridges. Here are just a few of our rewards and benefits that help make our team experience that bit more extraordinary. 

  • Flexible working options to benefit you, your family and your wellbeing that can include part-time, flexi-time or hybrid working.
  • Generous annual leave that increases with length of service.
  • Up to five paid volunteering days – from beach cleans to co-ordinating food and clothing donations.
  • Family leave that suits your set up including Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental leave policies.
  • Defined pension contribution scheme.
  • Generous bonus and/or commission scheme.
  • Enviable team member discount including sale previews and double discount days.
  • Exclusive local discounts on a range of restaurants, bars, beauticians and entertainment.
  • Subsidised gym memberships.
  • Annual travel pass and cycle-to-work schemes .
  • A sustainable car salary sacrifice scheme.
  • Several internal communities to get involved in from our Diversity Board and Green Warriors who are leading the charge on D,E&I and sustainability, to the Wellbeings who are always thinking of new ways to champion healthy minds, bodies and routines for our team members.
  • Workplace Options, our confidential team member assistance programme for when life gets tricky or you need a little guidance.
  • Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development.

Read on to find out how you can play your part in Reinventing Retail.

Role Responsibility:

As part of the busy Post-Production department within Selfridges’ Photo Studio operation, the Assistant Post-Production Manager provides digital post-production for all product imagery on the Selfridges website. The Assistant Post-Production Manager is responsible for team support and development as well as supporting the smooth day to day running of the department production workflow; ensuring agreed volumes are uploaded to the website within business time frames.

Allocating freelancer resources and ensuring within department budgets. In addition, managing retouching of editorial & creative content for the site to an impeccable finish. We are looking for an experienced retoucher, & manager, with experience in a wide range of retouching disciplines. Confident, excellent people skills with the ability to collaborate and problem solve, comfortable managing a team.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Guardianship to maintain the standard of all retouching online across product imagery and any creative imagery completed in-house.
  • Development and support of direct reports as well as the wider team.
  • Support Post-Production Manager with department resourcing and budget.
  • Support the operation of Post-Production department including the evolvement in team training and development.
  • Ownership and maintenance of style/retouch guides.
  • Fielding/delegation of all department queries.
  • Ownership to ensure competition of priorities within agreed deadlines.
  • Onboarding, supporting, and mentoring of new starters.
  • Freelancer resourcing and support, raising POs, tracking costs.
  • Advance SpinMe user.
  • Maintain and resource additional department workflows.

The Ideal Candidate:

  • Experience in retouching across ecommerce and creative fields.
  • Experience as a manager or team leader of a retouching team.
  • Exceptional Photoshop skills and strong understanding of asset management tools.
  • Ability to multitask and handle ownership/management of multiple tight project deadlines at a time.
  • Proven successful track record within a management role [people & projects].
  • Excellent empathy & communication skills.
  • Able to build good rapport with all department managers.
  • Coach and influence a team of retouchers to achieve their maximum potential.
  • Excellent leadership qualities.
  • An example of our values, a trusted and well respected colleague.
  • Ability to inspire, to cultivate a team member’s development and progression.
  • Communicating and Influencing behaviours.
  • Proactive and takes initiative, the ability to employ bigger picture thinking.
  • Excellent time management skills.
  • Takes a collaborative approach, working with other departments utilising an in-depth knowledge for photography and styling requirements.
  • Calm yet works effectively under pressure.
  • Cultivates and maintain good rapport within Photo Studio and looks beyond, to build new relationships within the wider business.
  • Motivates and communicates to produce high volume results whilst maintaining high quality.

About the Company:

Everyone is welcome:

Selfridges is a place where we want everyone to feel a sense of belonging. We embrace every self and are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive working culture. We are leading with purpose to not only increase the visibility and recognition of under-represented talent within our organisation, but the wider industry too. Here at Selfridges, everyone is welcome – irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age or disability, we stand by equal opportunities for all. 

Our awards cabinet:

We’re not ones to brag, but since you asked, Selfridges has won the award for The World’s Best Department Store an unprecedented four times at the IGDS awards, with an additional award for the Best Sustainability Campaign. We were also recognised as a ‘Best 25 Big Company to Work For 2020’ as awarded by The Sunday Times. 

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