Graphic Designer

**Vacancy No**
VN611

**Employment Type**
Full-Time

**Primary Work Location**
B&CE - Manhattan Building

**Description**
Have you been looking for the next step of you career? Want to be part of a fast growing, exciting company? B&CE might well have the Graphic Design role you've been looking for.

Main Purpose

Ensure visual assets are compliant, fit for purpose and easily understandable by their audiences.Contribute to a marketing centre of excellence with a strong understanding of and focus on digital culture and capability.

Deliver excellence in marketing communications by providing specialist graphic design services and advice within the Marketing Department and around the organisation in line with brand guidelines, technical requirements, team processes, internal policies, agreed standards, legislation and regulation.

Produce, update, review and approve quality, compelling, compliant and creative marketing content across all channels, products and customer groups.

An advocate of the importance of design and artwork in successful marketing, the Graphic Designer works with colleagues to meet customer needs and contribute to the growth and development of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities
- Creates, reviews and as required approves marketing content that is accurate, consistent,
compelling, creative and compliant
- Ensures content is on-brand and consistent in terms of style, quality and tone of voice; is an
exemplar of best practices in look, feel and brand guidelines
- Provides advice and constructive challenge when needed on a brief and the best way to
meet it
- Works with the rest of the Marketing Communications team to review, implement and
suggest any changes to guidelines for how the brand is expressed visually
- Uses and inputs into reviews of agreed processes, systems and SLAs for receiving briefs,
managing reviews and securing approvals
- Ensures all work is accurately version controlled and captured within the agreed facility for
storing and managing all marketing communications content and assets
- Suggests when using external agencies and contractors could add value and manages the
relationships with them as required
- Works with the Marketing Operations team to monitor customer experience and feedback;
identifies and implements agreed changes resulting from insight and analytics
- Tracks and captures SLAs, KPIs and metrics for design and artwork
- Helps to design and deliver testing as needed
- Demonstrates continuous improvement in quality and cost control for all their activities
- Engages with colleagues around the business to help identify business requirements for
graphic design delivery and advice
- Uses agreed tools, systems, software and techniques and suggests improvements to meet
business needs and deliver good customer outcomes
- Ensures project timelines are realistic and achieved for their areas of work
- Keeps up to date and complies with all relevant systems, legislation, regulation and policies
- Adheres to the company risk management policy and procedures, including reporting of
incidents or breaches
- Applies and promotes Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) culture and principles together with
the organisation’s behaviours and values
- Adheres to the company diversity and inclusion policy
Skill/ Experience
Essential
- Educated to A level or equivalent
- Working towards a professional qualification in graphic design
- Experience of designing technical and promotional content
- Experience of supplier relationship management
- Experience of quality control of artwork and design
- Experience of internal stakeholder engagement
- Knowledge of current best practice in artwork and design
- Knowledge of design for offline and digital channels
- Experience of compliance with regulatory, brand and editorial
guidelines
- Experience of briefing, review and approval processes and systems
- Demonstrable ability of excellent design skills
- Recent track record in creating impactful B2B and B2C design
- Expert knowledge of systems, software, tools and techniques for
design / artworking
- Experience of working in a project environment
- Passion for brand and house style
- Ability to create compelling and creative pensions and occupational
health content for multiple audiences across all channels
- Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
- Ability to understand complex issues and communicate them simply
- Collaborative working style
- Ability to develop expert knowledge of pension and occupational
health systems

Desired
- Graphic degree or equivalent
- Familiarity with the organisation’s products and markets
- Experience of writing for multiple products / services
- Experience of reviewing and approving design
- Experience of marketing communications for UK financial services
- Experience of working in a regulated environment
- Expert knowledge of pension and occupational health systems
- Understanding and experience of TCF

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