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  • Posted: Feb 12, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • HomeChoice International PLC (HIL) is an investment holding company incorporated in Malta and listed on the JSE Limited. Through its operating subsidiaries, HomeChoice and FinChoice, the group sells innovative homewares merchandise, personal electronics and loan products to the rapidly expanding middle-income market in southern Africa through mail order (cat...
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    DTP/Image Retoucher - Homechoice (Southern Suburbs (Cape))

    Description

    • Homechoice is a leading South African homeware retailer. For almost 40 years we’ve helped our customers create beautiful homes they love with an innovative range of quality products they can afford.
    • You will be responsible for colour manipulation and colour management technology, to colour retouch homechoice images and prepare artwork for print.

    What you will love doing in this role

    Colour retouching

    • Ensure consistent and accurate colour retouching of images daily.

    Colour management

    • Ensure all aspects of colour management of images is complete (from the correct handling of incoming images from photographers to the correct archiving/back-up procedures of colour corrected images)

    Colour relationship with photographers and printers

    • Analyse printing results to validate colour proofs on a continuous basis.
    • Maintain a good colour working relationship with printers and photographers.
    • Maintain a list of ‘unacceptable’ print jobs.
    • Communicate the process of image management from input from photographers, through colour correction, to final PDF generation and colour proofing.

    Perform repro for print

    • Ensure correct and consistent handling of incoming colour jobs.
    • Create print ready files for various printers.
    • Making sure all printer profiles are correct.
    • Manage the work in process workflow.

    Other

    • Additional ad hoc tasks as required and when instructed by the DTP Manager

    Requirements

    What you’ll need to do this role

    • Grade 12 and a relevant tertiary qualification
    • Minimum of 2 - 3 years working experience as a colour retoucher/DTP operator
    • Colour corrected to actual samples.
    • Mac DTP course – Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Illustrator
    • Advance Photoshop knowledge will be advantageous.
    • Knowledge and experience with various printers

    What we’ll love about you

    • Innovation, adaptability and initiative
    • High stress tolerance and resilience
    • Deadline driven/excellent time management
    • Planning and organisational ability
    • Excellent attention to detail
    • Excellent communicator both verbal and written

    Behaviours we love

    • Wow my customer
    • Walk in my customers’ shoes
    • Deliver on my promises
    • Deliver insight-led solutions my customers need
    • Treat the business as my own
    • Take accountability
    • Be curious, creative & explore opportunities
    • Do it right & at the right time
    • Play as a team
    • Be helpful
    • Be inclusive
    • Find the fun

    Check how your CV aligns with this job

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to HomeChoice Holdings Limited on homechoice.mcidirecthire.com to apply

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