Design Director

1 month ago


Eastern England, United Kingdom Marks, part of SGS & Co Full time

Marks is a global brand design and experience agency, uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. We enable our household name clients to get there first and best - empowering acceleration on a global scale. From vision-building to detailed execution, we enable brands to move faster and shift impact.


We are currently seeking a Design Director to join our talented team based in either London or Birmingham. You will play a leading role in a team that translates brand needs into distinctive visual outcomes - designing, crafting and implementing the brand experience across all touch points, through intelligently applied insight, compelling concepts, confident creativity and consistent activation.


Partnering with Client Services, you'll own the creative client relationships and quality of design across brands and/or accounts, and embody the Marks vision of can-do positivity, agility in approach and belief in the power of co-creation and ensuring we deliver the best against each brief. You'll employ strong judgement and analytical skills to drive better design, deliver beyond the client expectation and enable the personal growth of your own team.


This role would suit an ambitious designer looking to take that next natural step forward into a leadership role with a global, market leading agency.



What you'll do


· Build strong client relationships, acting as their brand custodian, using understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands to add provocation and richness

· Lead by example, guiding and inspiring your team to produce exceptional, insightful work that fully explores, challenges and goes beyond the brief.

· Approve work before client submission, maintaining our quality of output

· Act as the design consultant to your Client Service partners, aligning briefs to the client and brand needs, adding richness and insight to enable design to go deeper, stronger

· Maximise our resources, and manage your team’s workflow to deliver efficiently, adapting the plan when things change in partnership with Resource Management

· Grow you team by coaching and setting clear objectives

· Ensure your team follow file, server, naming conventions, business policies and process



What you'll have


· 8-12 years experience within a Brand/Packaging Design agency in Design roles

· Cross-team management, ability to identify and leverage skills across the network

· Agility, read the room and adapt

· A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related fieldStrong knowledge of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the world they inhabit

· Be an engaging presenter, debating, defending design work, influencing.

· Stakeholder management skills

· Exceptional print / material knowledge

· Adobe CC, Office, Sketching



What we offer


You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other benefits of working for Marks including:


· 25 days annual leave

· Pension

· Healthcare scheme

· Life Assurance


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