Senior Digital Designer

Senior Digital Designer

When asked what you do for a living, how would you like to be able to say 'I help to advance human progress'?

That's what we do (it's even in our strapline). And we are looking for a senior, multi-disciplinary digital designer to help us.

About the team:

Elsevier Creative is the driving force behind the visual and verbal identity. We design everything from videos to social posts to infographics and thought leadership pieces, telling stories that inform and inspire in every way we can. It's literally about making people think.

About the role:   

We are looking for a senior, multi-disciplinary digital designer to join a fast-paced, dynamic, global marketing group. We see design as visual storytelling, so we're looking for someone talented who can translate our brand identity into marketing activity that engages visually and emotionally. The ideal person will be skilled in every step of the design process, from concept to the final deliverable. Data visualisation and editorial design will feature strongly too, so expertise in these areas is essential. And it's a senior designer role, which means being able to balance multiple projects simultaneously and working well under pressure, often to tight deadlines, while following corporate guidelines.

So, show us your expert knowledge of design software, the creativity to turn it into compelling communication, and the experience to work on several projects at the same time. And we'll show you a job where your design skills can help change the world for the better.

Key responsibilities:

• Creating inspiring, strategic, and innovative campaign ideas that work online and offline.

• Visualising and creating concepts, giving direction on photography style, imagery, typography, and iconography.

• Acting as a brand ambassador to ensure designs follow our brand identity guidelines, maintaining consistency and compliance across our work.

• Managing creative production through our design workflow system,

• Consulting with internal stakeholders to determine objectives, background information, budget, design approaches, styles and techniques.

• Transforming complex data into compelling visualisations for social/digital media, supporting our global marketing campaigns.

• Building interactive editorial content and supporting assets for our thought leadership programmes.

• Partnering with our global Events team, providing creative direction for in-person and virtual events.

• Working closely with Product to visually articulate how the Elsevier product suite helps solve our customers' challenges.

• Collaborating with the Creative team, sharing ideas, best practices, problem-solving, and participating in developing project briefs.

• Show your knowledge and thirst to investigate, innovate, and develop trends with an emphasis on digital.  

  Requirements:

• Minimum five years' experience in a senior graphic/digital design role.

• Strong knowledge of the Adobe Creative Cloud applications.

• Degree (or equivalent) in graphic/digital design or related discipline.

• Photography experience and proficiency with photo-editing software.

• Experience in video editing/animation (advantageous, not essential.

• An interest in the latest digital technologies, software, and growing trends in the creative industry.

Core competencies -

• Creativity – naturally.

• Strong attention to detail and quality control.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Confident in presenting creative pitch presentations.

• Able to engage internal and external stakeholders at all levels of seniority.

• Enthusiastic, initiative-taking, and with the ability to work independently.

• Excellent organisational and planning skills – able to multitask and balance conflicting priorities at any one time.

• Must be able to work with multi-disciplinary teams.

• Ability to work under pressure in a challenging environment, business intelligence, or analytics engineering.

Why join us?

Are you ready to help us progress science and health? Our technology leads to innovation, so join a forward-thinking digital business that is tackling world-scale challenges and align your ambitions with our passion for driving global knowledge-sharing.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Flexible hours - flex the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days. 

• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits.

• Wellbeing programs.

• Life assurance.

• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme.

• Long service awards.

• Save As You Earn share option scheme. 

• Travel Season ticket loan. 

• Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.

• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children.

• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you. 

• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer. 

• Access to extensive learning and development resources.

• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work.

About Elsevier:

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education, and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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