Experience

Temptation Gifts Ltd.

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graphic and Web Designer

  • Aug 2009 - Present

  Upon moving to the company’s e-commerce department full-time, my role has evolved rapidly over the years and included all aspects of graphic design both for the website as well as high street shops. This allowed me to utilise and deepen my knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign as well as gain fluent command of HTML and CSS. In this period, I’ve been responsible for:- Scheduling and designing the content of home pages to give prominence to new ranges as well as reflect seasons, trends and analysis of popular products.- Designing and managing all landing pages on company’s two websites. Often done with close collaboration with artists or brand creators to reflect the feel and style of the brand or product range.- Creating stand-alone websites for our suppliers. - Creation, scheduling and analysis of marketing emails sent to company’s database of over 100,000 customers.- Overseeing all design changes to the evolving look and functionality of company’s websites over the years.- Establishing high standard of product photography used online. - Running advertising campaigns in local newspapers for each of company’s 6 high street stores for the last 4 years; designing the content of each ad and communicating with newspapers.- Designing brochures, furniture catalogues, high quality posters for shop windows, newspaper advertorials, leaflets, flyers as well as providing the design for the recently launched loyalty card.- Training new members of staff, bringing them up to speed with many aspects of Adobe Suite as well as HTML and CSS.

• Part-time Website Content Coordinator / Sale-Assistant

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2009

  From June 2008 I started working for the company’s e-commerce department on a part-time basis. Beginning with product descriptions and photography, my role soon evolved to include the creation of landing pages, banners, home page content as well as various graphics for store displays.

• Sales Assistant

  • Jan 2008 - Jun 2008

  I participated in all aspects of the day-to-day running of the shop, greeting and serving customers, arranging shop and window displays, booking in deliveries and stocktaking.

• Warehouse Assistant

  • Dec 2007 - Jan 2008

  I worked as a Christmas temp, helping with pricing products, deliveries and stock-takes.



SS Robin Trust

• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Gallery Supervisor

  • Jun 2006 - Sep 2006

  My main tasks included the promotion of the gallery among language schools in London, designing and executing marketing ideas for promoting the gallery, supervising the gallery during the opening hours, fielding visitors’ questions regarding current exhibitions as well as the SS Robin vessel. I was also responsible for training new volunteers. My main tasks included the promotion of the gallery among language schools in London, designing and executing marketing ideas for promoting the gallery, supervising the gallery during the opening hours, fielding visitors’ questions regarding current exhibitions as well as the SS Robin vessel. I was also responsible for training new volunteers.