Senior Hair & Make-Up Artist

Package Description

THE FUN STUFF 

There are lots of reasons to be excited about joining Team Selfridges – from our fantastic team member communities to volunteer days and behind-the-scenes Selfridges experiences throughout the year.

Other benefits and rewards include:

• Generous bonus and/or commission scheme
• Discounted gym memberships
• Pension contributions
• Annual travel pass and cycle to work schemes
• A volunteer day for all team members
• Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development

Job Introduction

Overall Job Purpose:

• To help implement and interpret the Selfridges creative vision through make-up and hair styling of Digital Photoshoots.
• Lead and mentor junior Hair Stylists, developing their technical skills and inspiring them to produce leading creative output.
• To understand and maintain best practices, not only to achieve very high standards of styling and imagery but also to maintain agreed efficiencies within the studios.

A bit about the role

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee and execute hair and make-up styles across all fashion sets within the studio on a daily basis, preparing teams for sign off from the styling management team.
• Demonstrate strong technical and creative skills across hair and makeup and an understanding of forward thinking ways of working.
• Have knowledge of current hair and makeup trends, interpreting and executing styles in line with the Selfridges Creative vision.
• Collate seasonal trend packs, drawing inspiration from a variety of fashion media to influence ideas, and set seasonal hair and make-up styles for the Selfridges sensibilities, helping the Selfridges imagery to remain fresh and forward-thinking.
• Mentor a team including grooming and junior Hair Stylists, cascading knowledge, sharing a wide variety of styling and make-up techniques, aiding progress and development team members.
• Maintain and encourage a positive ‘can do’ atmosphere in the studios, which is conducive to high production levels and excellent quality of work.
• Hold morning briefs with Hair and Make-up team, setting and assigning styles and goals for the day.
• Develop and cascade excellent knowledge of the Selfridges Style Guides in order to maintain visual quality and consistency across all images taken for the website.
• Collaborate on a daily basis with Art Director, Photographer, Shoot Lead, Stylist and Stylist Assistant to produce imagery in line with the Selfridges style guides.
• Working with Assistant Online Styling Manager on the update of Selfridges Hair style guides.
• Maintain efficiencies within the studios and be a point of contact for Hair and Make-up queries.
• Responsible for briefing and leading freelance team members daily on best practice.
• Work with peers to implement changes in order to improve studio efficiencies and shoot imagery.
• Able to troubleshoot and show initiative through a back catalogue of knowledge.
• Attention to detail is crucial, maintaining a very high quality of imagery across the board is essential.
• Own the studio Hair and make-up consumables, ensuring required equipment and product is always on hand and maintained.
• Maintain a tidy and workable area, ensuring at the end of the day it is clear and ready for the following days shoot.
• Work efficiently and develop cross departmental relationships.
• Lead and inspire, living the Selfridges values.

A bit about you

Skills and Experience:

This role requires a person with excellent hair styling and make-up techniques, and a very strong creative visual focus, as well as possessing strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

• 5 years hair styling and make-up experience
• Salon and session experience with a strong creative portfolio
• BTEC National Diploma Hair Level 2 with a strong product knowledge

• Good communication skills and able to give and take direction
• Strong fashion and trend knowledge
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong organisation skills, with a pro-active ‘can do’ attitude
• Confident in decision making.
• Manual handling
• Good time management and ability to work to tight deadlines
• Flexibility

A bit about us

We are a shop run on imagination: a place where the world’s most covetable brands combine with the most extraordinary spectacles, events and ideas for an experience like no other.

We have challenged the rules of retail from day one, whilst demonstrating our unwavering commitment to sustainability.  In 2016, we were the first to be awarded with recognition for the ‘World’s Best Sustainability Campaign by a Department Store’ at the IGDS Global Department Store Summit, in-line with its focus on buying better and inspiring change. We are also recognised as the Best Department Store in the World (2010, 2012, 2014 & 2018) underlining our place at the forefront of retail. In 2018 we were recognised as a LinkedIn Top Company to work for.

Our vision is to be the destination for the most extraordinary customer experience, and our people are central to us achieving this.  As an employer we are committed to making Selfridges an exciting, inspiring and fun place to work