Skip to main content

This job has expired

Egmont, Designer - Magazines

Employer
Egmont UK Limited
Location
West London
Salary
Competitive salary and benefits
Closing date
8 Apr 2019

Job Details

Egmont is the leading publisher for children in the UK, selling more than 12 million magazines per year of titles like Disney Princess, Lego Star Wars, Toxic, Fortnite, Go Girl, PAW Patrol, Minecraft, Thomas & Friends and many more.

We believe that a diverse workforce strengthens our creativity and delivers the best commercial performance. We are, therefore, seeking applications from high quality people, whose backgrounds, experience and identity broadens and enhances the diversity of our company.

This is an exciting opportunity for a talented Designer to join our magazine department, focusing on our portfolio of licensed and own brand titles aimed at children aged 3-12 years.

You will need to show enthusiasm for Children’s magazines and uphold responsibility to produce and develop all allocated design work for a variety of titles (including, but not limited to bags, covers, pages, covermounts, online and marketing material) on schedule, to budget and to the highest possible design and commercial standards.

If you are someone who is a strong team player, who has a passion for excellent magazine design and proven technical competencies in Adobe Creative Suite, in particular Photoshop and InDesign and a keen eye for detail we want to hear from you.

This is a golden opportunity to work with a superb creative team crafting excellent products for the children’s market. As part of this role, you will also be expected work on other Egmont titles when the need arises, as well as creative pitches for new magazines.

The role is based in our offices near Latimer Road/Shepherd’s Bush tube stations in West London.

Our company purpose is to make all children proud readers through our broad portfolio of inclusive, child-friendly books and magazines for children and families from all backgrounds, for every interest and reading ability. We are committed to creating opportunities for people from groups traditionally under-represented in publishing.

Egmont is the publisher of some of the world’s leading children’s authors, illustrators and brands including Michael Morpurgo, Andy Stanton, Jim Smith, Julia Donaldson, Tintin, Winnie-the-Pooh, Star Wars, Minecraft, Mr Men, Thomas & Friends, Disney Princess, Toxic and Go Girl to name just a few!

We are also part of the Egmont Group; Europe’s largest children’s publisher telling stories through books, magazines, film, TV, music, games and mobile in 30 countries throughout the world.

If you would like to join us please click on the 'Apply' button to navigate to our Careers site, where you can click 'Apply now' and follow the instructions to complete and submit the relevant application forms.

Please note that we do not accept CVs.

Closing date: 8 April 2019.

Please ensure you clearly state which position you are applying for.

Strictly No Agencies

Company

At Egmont, we aspire to make all children proud readers through our broad portfolio of inclusive, child-friendly books and magazines.

Egmont Publishing are the biggest children’s publisher in the UK, reaching an average of one million children a month.

Egmont publish books from beloved children’s authors including Michael Morpurgo, Enid Blyton, Michael Grant, Kristina Stephenson, Jim Smith and Lydia Monks, and our publishing expertise has turned debut authors into bestsellers.

As well as publishing household names, Egmont are home to some of the most cherished characters in children’s fiction, like Winnie the Pooh, Thomas & Friends, Mr. Men and Little Miss. We’ve also used our publishing expertise to turn blockbuster brands like Star Wars, Minecraft and Lego into bestselling print books for children.

Our titles have had a major impact on culture and the economy, and countless people have grown up reading our books for babies through to teenagers.

Company info
Website
Location
The Yellow Buliding
1 Nicholas Road
London
W11 4AN
GB

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert