2D Concept Graphic Designer

Job title: Senior 2D Retail Graphics Designer

Duration: 3-6 months

Location: Malmesbury, 5 days onsite

Description:

Role Overview

We're looking for an exceptional 2D Creative who thrives on rapidly turning ideas into compelling shopper experiences across Client's global retail environments. You'll concept and visualise 2D elements for new product launches, evolving categories, and continuous improvements across both Client direct stores and third-party retail fixtures

Working at the intersection of graphic design, retail theatre, experience design and product storytelling, you'll craft the visual language that helps shoppers understand and feel the magic of Client technology. The role moves at pace - quickly generating concepts, scamps, mock-ups and testable prototypes that push our 2D experience forward.

You'll collaborate closely with 3D, Digital, VM, Retail Marketing, NPD, Demonstration and Commercial teams, shaping how our technology shows up in physical retail and validating your work with real users and senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Concepting & Experience Design

• Rapidly generate 2D retail concepts, from low-FI scamps to polished mock-ups, that bring stories to life in-store.
• Develop shopper-centred communication, graphics, touchpoints and fixture-based experiences for direct and third-party retail.
• Support all NPD retail launches with innovative 2D solutions, balancing creativity with technical feasibility.
• Evolve existing categories, improving clarity, storytelling and conversion through new visual and comms approaches.

Prototyping, Visualisation & Testing

• Produce fast iterative prototypes, mock-ups and Photoshop visualisations for internal and external reviews.
• Work with retail development teams to take concepts toward production, ensuring design intent is protected.
• Validate concepts via user testing, stakeholder feedback and in-store learnings.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with 3D, Digital, VM and NPD teams to ensure 2D and 3D elements work seamlessly together.
• Influence creative direction within cross-functional sprints, reviews and category workstreams.
• Bring clarity and narrative to your work - crafting clear rationale and storytelling around your design decisions.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Present confidently to senior stakeholders, articulating design logic, shopper insight and commercial considerations.
• Contribute to high-level creative reviews (including JDCR-style forums) with compelling, well-structured work.
• Ensure alignment between direct and third-party retail experiences through consistent strategy and creative integrity.

Skills & Experience

Creative Skills

• Exceptional visual ideation: sketching, scamping, storyboarding, quick-turn concepting.
• High-end Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
• Ability to blend product storytelling, shopper psychology and brand experience.
• Strong eye for composition, hierarchy, clarity and in-store communication principles.

Retail & Experience Design

• 5+ years' experience in retail, POS, shopper experience or 2D/graphic design for physical environments.
• Comfortable working into 3D worlds (fixture communication, spatial storytelling, retail theatre).
• Understanding of prototyping, materials and production processes.

Ways of Working

• Strong presenter, able to defend and justify creative decisions with clarity and confidence.
• Fast, iterative working style - comfortable juggling multiple projects and tight deadlines.
• Collaborative, flexible, solutions-focused mindset with a passion for innovation.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.