Graphic Designer / Artworker

We’re looking for a talented and detail-oriented Graphic Designer / Artworker to join our Marketing Team, bringing our brand to life through creative, impactful design and high-quality artwork across our retail and marketing channels.

The Graphic Designer / Artworker is responsible for creating high-quality, engaging design and accurate artwork across our UK retail and marketing activity, with a particular focus on point of sale (POS), showroom materials and physical customer touchpoints.

Working closely with the wider Marketing Team, the role will strengthen our in-house creative capability, delivering high-quality work at pace, improving turnaround times and reducing reliance on external agencies for day-to-day design and artwork requirements. Through consistent and considered creative execution, the role will bring poltronesofà’s brand proposition of quality, value and Italian identity to life across our showrooms and customer experience, supporting our ambition to become the best sofa retailer in the UK.

Hybrid working, with two days per week based in our Sunderland office.

Design and artwork: Translate approved briefs into customer-friendly designs and production-ready artwork for POS, price tickets, windows, bollards, decals, leaflets, outdoor posters and other brand assets. Balance creative impact with clarity, legibility and practical use.
Campaign adaptation: Adapt approved campaign concepts into store, print, digital and social formats as required. Work with Creative Campaign and Brand, Social & Content colleagues to preserve the campaign idea and visual identity across every execution.
Print production: Prepare files to supplier specifications, checking dimensions, bleed, safe areas, resolution, colour profiles, fonts and cutter guides. Preflight final PDFs and liaise with printers on proofs, materials and technical queries.
Accuracy and sign-off: Check artwork against approved product, pricing, offer and copy sources. Route proofs to the accountable approvers, record sign-off and release only authorised versions; correct and escalate discrepancies before production.
Workflow and turnaround: Manage a visible design queue with briefs, priorities, deadlines and status. Agree priorities with the Marketing Director and request owners, flag capacity risks early and handle urgent changes without compromising checking.
Reusable assets: Build and maintain templates, master artwork, image libraries and naming conventions. Make resizing and repeat production faster, ensuring colleagues and suppliers can identify the latest approved assets.
Store practicality: Work with Retail Marketing and store colleagues to test readability, sizing and installation requirements. Improve designs using showroom feedback, supporting simpler implementation and a consistent customer journey.
Efficiency and quality: Track turnaround, first-time approval, rework and the volume brought in-house. Reduce avoidable agency adaptation and print errors; recommend efficient production choices while maintaining design and brand standards.
Measures of success
Faster turnaround; accurate print-ready files; fewer corrections and reprints; consistent assets; reduced routine agency adaptation costs.

• Confident Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop use, plus Acrobat preflight and PDF preparation.
• Strong typography, layout, image handling and an eye for brand consistency and detail.
• Practical knowledge of print production, large-format artwork, colour management and supplier specifications.
• Accurate proofreading and version control; organised file management and deadline prioritisation.
• Ability to interpret briefs, explain design choices and respond constructively to feedback; basic digital accessibility awareness.
• A portfolio showing both creative design and accurate finished artwork.
• Experience producing print-ready files and working with printers or production partners to resolve queries.
• Evidence of handling multiple formats, amendments and deadlines in a studio, agency or in-house team.
• Retail POS, signage, large-format print, furniture or interiors; digital/social adaptation and basic motion skills.
• Relevant design qualification or equivalent practical experience. Portfolio required with application.