Specialist I Graphic Designer

Ahold Delhaize•Pleasant Hill, ME

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hannaford Supermarkets is seeking a Graphic Designer responsible for developing compelling, customer-focused creative that supports the brand's marketing, loyalty, and business objectives across all customer touchpoints. The role involves translating business strategies and customer insights into creative solutions for print and digital mediums, ensuring accuracy and visual engagement. The designer will maintain and champion the Hannaford brand identity by adhering to brand standards and guidelines, collaborating with creatives and cross-functional leaders, and assisting with photo shoots, production, and asset preparation. This position also includes creating design templates for efficiency, managing workload in a trafficking system for on-time delivery, and maintaining organized file structures.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or equivalent experience
3-5 years of relevant experience
Demonstrated portfolio showing strong design thinking, typography, layout, and visual storytelling
Strong understanding of print production and file preparation
Working knowledge of digital and social media design
Strong knowledge of Adobe’s Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
Experience with Apple's OS, Mac Computers and Microsoft Office Suite
A link to your portfolio is required

Nice To Haves

Experience in a marketing/design firm with retail clients
Experience in Adobe Workfront and Adobe Experience Manager
Experience creating compelling PowerPoints
Working knowledge of all primary social media platforms

Responsibilities

Translate business strategies and customer insights into compelling creative solutions for a variety of mediums including print and digital.
Ensure all creative assets are accurate, visually engaging, and aligned with business objectives.
Maintain and champion Hannaford's brand identity across all customer touchpoints by ensuring adherence to brand standards, creative guidelines, visual systems, and logo usage standards.
Work closely with other creatives, photographers and cross-functional leaders to achieve a high level of quality in all design and creative work.
Assist with photo shoots, production, revisions, resizing, versioning, and asset preparation across multiple projects.
Help create design templates to drive efficiencies.
Work closely with Production leads and manage workload in our workflow trafficking system for on-time delivery of all creative assets.
Maintain organized file structures and asset management processes.
Manage multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.
Participate in creative ideation and concept development sessions.
Proactively solicit feedback to continually improve and evolve the work.
Effectively sell their ideas and explain the business rationale that supports their design direction.
Strong conceptual thinking and creative problem-solving abilities.
Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Highly collaborative and team oriented.
Open to feedback and committed to continuous improvement.
Excellent communication skills.