Junior Graphic Designer

About Origin

Origin is an aspirational brand and positioned as one of the leading speciality coffee roasters in the UK and Europe. We source and roast incredible direct trade coffees where quality, seasonality, provenance, and traceability underpin our supply chain. We work at farm level building long term commercially sustainable relationships with farmers and cooperatives. We look to initiatives that support triple bottom line sustainability and in doing so balance purpose with profit. Our key drivers at Origin are around quality, people, culture, and sustainability, to drive exponential revenue growth. At its most basic level Origin wholesale supply speciality coffee to the leading and most progressive speciality coffee and hospitality businesses in the UK and Europe. And because we do what we do so well, we also own and operate six of our own speciality coffee shops across London and Cornwall as well as a rapidly expanding ecommerce business.

The culture within Origin threads through everything we do. We pride ourselves on how inclusive and diverse we are. But we don’t rest on our laurels; we continuously review our position and behaviours. We actively seek a range of attributes and characteristics in our employees, as we know how this energises our teams and outputs and keeps us striving for the best.

Job purpose:

We’re looking for a Junior Designer to join our marketing team in Cornwall. This is a brand-new role and we are looking for a talented and passionate creative who can develop their career here at Origin. Perhaps you’re a graduate looking for your first design role, or someone with a year or so under their belt, either way there is a lot of opportunity to learn and grow as a designer.

Origin also works with an external design agency; A-Side Studios. A-Side forms a team of experienced and talented designers who work closely with Origin and will be wonderful partner for this new in-house role.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Own the design and print output for our busy coffee release schedule: artworking labels, tasting cards and digital assets.
• Supporting the Origin coffee shops with POS toolkits and responding to ad hoc design requirements.
• Updating email templates to support weekly email send schedule.
• Creating digital assets for social and ecommerce.
• Creating beautiful presentation documents which showcase our brand and support various business opportunities.
• Competitor research: ensuring we are ahead of the game from a design and creative perspective.

The role requires:

• At least 1 year of experience as an intern or full-time employee in equivalent role.
• Design degree qualification or equivalent.
• Knowledge of relevant software; Adobe Creative Suite.
• Awareness of how to use After Effects and UD would be valued.
• Competent with creating print-ready design files.
• A creative mindset.
• Strong attention to detail; it will be important to review copy while you are designing.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Strong team player.
• Ability to work and maximize relationships within a diverse team.
• Strong proficiency in organization, problem solving and communication.
• Ability to work under pressure and towards deadlines.

The person will be:

• Eager to develop both print and digital design skills.
• Meticulously organised, efficient, and impeccable at time keeping.
• Comfortable working under pressure and obsessed about the detail.
• Bound in confidence, a lot of personality, good humoured and trustworthy.
• Informal but 100% professional.
• An Origin ambassador, through and through.

The best basics are:

• A full-time, permanent contract.
• Pension contribution following successful probation.
• Induction across the company, Cornwall, and London.
• A fabulous working environment – in this instance, very much shaped by you.
• Career development – optimising learning and training opportunities led by you.
• Origin is going places, so you get to grow with us. this is an exciting stage of growth for us and if you’re the right person, it will be for you too.

The better than most basics are:

• Comprehensive suite of support from a hospitality specific employee assistant programme (EAP) to include support with physical, mental, and financial wellness at work.
• Mental health first aid training.
• Commitment from us for your continued learning and development.
• Part time off for volunteering.
• Your birthday off.
• Increase in holiday allowance for longer length service.
• A £200 employee referral scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Free weekly coffee to take home and free coffee and hot drinks in any of our coffee shops.
• 50% off all food and discounted alcohol.
• Generous discount for friends and family in all our coffee shops.
• Very generous discount off brewing equipment and like-minded brands and partner suppliers.
• Regular social team events serving exceptional food, drink, and of course, amazing coffee.