Role: Senior Graphic Designer 

Location:London, England, United Kingdom (Needs to be based in client office 2 days a week)

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for overseeing design projects from concept to file distribution. Responsibilities include crafting graphic content, illustrations, and infographics, as well as reviewing the work of the Artworker and other junior designers to maintain consistently high-quality deliverables. Ensuring brand consistency throughout your and yours and the team’s work is crucial, and collaboration with the entire creative team is essential to meet deadlines. The role involves creating initial design concepts and guiding them through to the full artwork stage for a diverse range of both online and offline materials. Proactive project management within agreed-upon timelines is a key aspect, considering factors such as quality, accuracy, and consistency. An integral part of their responsibilities includes quality assurance (QA) of work in alignment with brand guidelines across all assets, as well as providing support on brand and performance projects. Projects will predominantly be print supported by digital and social assets, therefore experience with print is essential. The role requires someone who enjoys and is well-versed in conceptual design thinking and can come up with new design ideas supported by loose brand guidelines. The brand tends to focus on contemporary styles that blend arts and culture-inspired work with advertising principles.

Familiarity with animation and motion is a bonus. This role will also require an independent ability to manage projects and your capacity working directly with a brief owner.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

• Crafting graphic content, illustrations, and infographics
• Propose improvement to templatization and efficiencies of work
• Ensuring old and new brand guideline consistency throughout their work is crucial, and collaboration with the entire creative team is essential to meet deadlines
• The role involves creating initial design concepts in line with approved guidelines for print and selected channels
• Proactive project management within agreed-upon timelines is a key aspect, considering factors such as quality, accuracy, and consistency and print deadlines
• An integral part of the responsibilities includes quality assurance (QA) of work in alignment with brand guidelines across all assets, as well as providing support on brand and performance projects
• Responsible for end file distribution and print production ordering

You will work on a variety of different projects from:

• Creating assets for cultural partners including print and digital collateral
• Social Content
• Adaptations
• Digital content
• OOH and print ads both for the client and the client’s cultural partners
• Product and campaign assets
• Re-purpose and adapt existing brand toolkits to creative engaging fresh content
• Brand development and toolkit work

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

• Experience working with or personal passion for arts and culture design projects
• Print experience
• Ability to switch between print and social best practice
• Video design experience is a plus
• A portfolio demonstrating your ideas through to execution
• You'll have a deep affinity with layout, typography and ideas-generation
• Proficiency in Adobe CC suite applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch and associated prototyping
• A team player and possess the ability to build strong and effective working relationships

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

OUR VALUES

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

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Job Id: 8440

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We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle. 

Inside Ideas Group and its’ affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.