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Job Description
About the Role:
As a
Senior Photographer, you will combine creative vision with professional expertise to consistently produce high-quality imagery for the Next brand. With a strong background in lighting and model photography, you will take a leading role in interpreting briefs, directing shoots, and guiding the visual aesthetic across studio operations.
You’ll bring a sharp eye for detail, creative flair, and an innate ability to align visuals with our brand principles and evolving creative direction. Working closely with your Creative Lead, you will offer strategic and creative direction to the wider studio team, ensuring standards are upheld and continually elevated.
You’re a focused, proactive, and mature individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, with the empathy and communication skills required to lead and develop a team. You will also take ownership of maintaining and evolving studio workflows and structures to support creative output and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver clear, aspirational creative guidance to the studio team, translating brand objectives into compelling photography.
- Direct and support a team of inhouse and freelance photographers, digi ops and assistants to ensure creative consistency and quality across all visual output
- Lead training sessions, workshops, and day-to-day mentoring to enhance the creative skillset of the team.
- Take responsibility for ensuring studio workflows and operational structures are consistently adhered to, adapting and developing them where necessary to improve efficiency and creative standards.
- Research and stay ahead of emerging trends in fashion photography, lighting, street style, and social media to bring fresh inspiration to shoots.
- Monitor industry and competitor activity to inform and refine creative direction.
- Oversee multiple sets simultaneously, maintaining high standards of quality, creativity, and efficiency.
- Implement and monitor quality control measures across the studio.
- Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and support the growth of junior team members.
- Work collaboratively with fellow seniors across our model team as well as across other areas.
- Regularly present new test work and concepts to senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment with creative strategy.
- Communicate effectively with your Creative Lead to establish clear, recognisable and achievable goals.
- Travel to other Next studios, external studios, or on-location shoots as required.
- Strong experience in fashion/e-commerce/editorial photography.
About You:
- Proven experience in a leadership or management role within a creative studio environment.
- Expert in lighting, model direction, and fashion photography.
- Proficient in Photoshop, Capture One, and MAC.
- Hands-on experience with Canon camera systems and Profoto/continuous lighting kits.
- Strong ability to direct models confidently and constructively.
- Understanding of videography is an advantage.
- Deep knowledge of current visual trends and techniques in lighting and post-production.
- Exceptional planning, organization, and multitasking skills.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Able to inspire and guide a team through feedback, training, and leadership
- Highly adaptable with a proactive approach to challenges.
- Commercially aware, with a sound understanding of retail fashion and consumer trends.
- Meticulous attention to detail under pressure.
- Full UK driving licence required
- A strong supporting portfolio or website is essential.
About Us
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
About The Team
- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email
[email protected] (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
