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About the Role

As a VM Creative Producer, you will manage all coordination to deliver visually exciting windows and in-store theatre for customers. This involves collating ideas, alterations, and visuals from the Design Manager for seasonal setups and creative activities. You will produce window concept visuals for schemes and prop design, and create mockup visuals for flagship store window rollouts and lower tier iterations. You will also collaborate with third-party brands to design, produce, and execute branded windows across the estate through a robust supplier-funded process.

Responsibilities

Design and manage the window calendar with support from the Senior Creative Manager and VM Lead.
Ensure connectivity with Customer Planning for departmental alignment.
Feed branded window opportunities to Creative Managers that align with proposed window schemes.
Collaborate with Buying and other relevant departments to update and design new branded window packages per the VM Strategy.
Support VM Designers with the design and execution of secondary and special window schemes.
Support VM Designers and store design with the recommission/decommission of windows post-store visits or Optimisation projects.
Maintain individual strategies and brand integrity for both JL and 3rd party brands.
Provide creative communication support with the Styling team regarding window execution and prop allocation.
Develop concepts into window schemes and props, including designing concepts, writing briefs for trials, allocations, and specifications.
Adapt schemes for all special window sizes.
Ensure supplier briefs are appropriate for bespoke projects or market-specific window designs.
Produce guidelines for windows, prop rollouts, and special campaigns with VM Designers and Stylists, ensuring budget adherence.
Ensure schemes are appropriate across both Brands and alter schemes/campaigns accordingly as part of the Head Office team.
Support VM Designer and Senior Creative Manager with supplier briefings, sample acquisition, and relationship development.
Brainstorm with VM Lead, Senior Creative Manager, and Head Office team for seasonal concepts and ad hoc creative projects.
Demonstrate innovative ideas that support business growth.
Regularly spend time in shops, the office, or with suppliers as required.
Proactively drive own development.

Requirements

Previous retail/display background.
Flexible and enjoy working in a high pace, fast-moving, and changing environment.
Demonstrate the ability to stay positive under pressure and remain focused on goals.
3D/4D/Sketch up design package literate.
Pre-employment vetting may be required (including DBS checks for successful candidates).
Financial probity checks may be required for some roles.
Apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early.

Skills

Customer centricity
Excellent organizational and project management skills with multitasking ability.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Ability to build strong relationships with key business areas.
Passion for the John Lewis Brand and strong customer knowledge.
Creative experience.

Location

London Head Office campus in Pimlico
London Central Office, 1 Drummond Gate, London, SW1V 2QQ

Work Type

Hybrid working approach (mixture between office and home)
Typically aim for around three days a week in the office or visiting shops
Core office days are Monday and Tuesday
Full-time (35 hours)

Experience Level

Partnership Level 8

Salary/Compensations

£36,000.00 - £56,900.00 Annual
Expected salary up to - £48,000 depending on experience

Benefits

Night Premium at a rate of £4.75 per hour for time worked between 22:00 - 06:00
Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach
Support flexible working (flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible)
Co-owners (Partners) share in rewards and successes

About the Company

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose.
We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail.
We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify.
Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards.
We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong.
Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE.
Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.
At the John Lewis Partnership we’re not just employees; we’re co-owners, and that’s why we’re called Partners.
Being a Partner means not only do we all collectively share the responsibilities of being the UK’s largest employee-owned business, but we also share in its rewards and successes.
It’s this ownership model that makes the Partnership a very unique place to work.