Senior Retoucher

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Company Description

COS offers a wardrobe of ready-to-wear and accessories for a life well dressed. Rooted in luxury design and compelling fashion movements, the collection plays meticulous attention to sustainable craftsmanship, quality and a superior colour palette that transcends time. The creative soul of the brand is visualised through original storytelling, seasonal runway shows and contemporary culture to create an experience beyond the expected. Learn more about COS here.

Job Description

We are looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented Senior Retoucher to oversee and enhance all web-based imagery in line with our company guidelines. This role involves managing the workflow, ensuring high-quality standards, and guiding the retouch team to achieve both personal and business objectives.

What you will do:

• Image Management: Manage and retouch all web-based imagery, ensuring alignment with company guidelines. Perform thorough quality checks and take responsibility for feedback.
• Workflow Coordination: Oversee the workflow within the team, ensuring timely delivery of assets to the highest standards.
• Team Leadership: Guide the retouch team to meet personal objectives and overall business goals, providing support and feedback as needed.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure consistency and attention to detail in all images through rigorous quality assurance processes.
• Process Improvement: Maintain and improve workflow efficiency within the retouching team, implementing new ways of working.
• Collaboration: Coordinate with the Studio Manager and production team weekly to schedule and delegate work. Work closely with the studio manager, production team, and art directors to enhance quality and efficiency.
• KPI Monitoring: Monitor team KPIs and drive improvements in production efficiency.
• Team Support: Conduct regular meetings and catch-ups with the retouching team to provide support and guidance.
• Creative Oversight: Oversee creative retouching for marketing images, newsletters, and other creative assets as needed.
• File Management: Maintain file structure and archive images appropriately.
• Continuous Improvement: Suggest and implement ways to improve image quality. Take initiative and proactively support the retouching and other studio teams.
• Ad Hoc Duties: Complete any other duties within the studio as required.

Qualifications

Alignment to our company values is the most important characteristic we look for in all new joiners. Our values are the behaviours that we appreciate above and beyond anything else. We are open-minded and curious, we dare to be different, we believe in constant improvement and we empower and trust you to take ownership. Our values are part of who we are, what we stand for and how we act.

What you need to succeed:

• Team Management Experience: Proven experience in a similar role, with a track record of successfully managing a team.
• Photoshop Expertise: Extensive experience using Photoshop CC and Actions.
• Color Correction Skills: Expert in color correction to ensure consistency across all product images.
• Attention to Detail: Possess a critical eye for correcting and enhancing imagery.
• Digital Image Processing: Knowledgeable in processing digital images, with a strong understanding of Capture One Pro.
• Deadline-Oriented: Demonstrated ability to work under tight deadlines and produce a high volume of retouched images.
• Brand Understanding: Genuine interest in and understanding of the COS brand and business, both visually and commercially.

Additional Information

This is a Full time -Temporary ML 1 year Contractbased at our Head Office in London

Benefits

We offer all our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a 25% staff discount usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program - HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to this London based colleagues also receive

• Up to 25 days holiday
• Annual health checks
• Pension scheme
• Discounts on various activities and financial/lifestyle products via our benefits hub
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee assistance via retail trust
• Private health & dental care

Inclusion & Diversity

At COS we're determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people who share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, what we perceive as possible and how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world, therefore all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.