Creative Lead - Digital & Print

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Creative Lead – Digital & Print 

£45,000 and company benefits 
London 
6 month FTC (with possibility of an extension) 
Full Time 

Our client seeks a Creative Lead to work onsite at a prestigious professional advisory firm in the City! 

Are you a highly experienced, heavyweight creative and versatile Creative Lead with demonstrable experience in delivering strong conceptual print and digital designs? Do you have proven experience in a creative lead role, preferably within a corporate design agency or professional services environment, providing design concepts and creative direction? Do you have excellent digital design skills and UI experience? Are you looking for an opportunity to reshape creative direction at a leading global organisation? 

How would you like to work for a global business process outsourcing (BPO) organisation, with a client base of blue chip FTSE100 and Fortune 500 companies within the Public Sector, Financial Services, Legal, Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences and Energy industry sectors? Sound good so far? Then this is the perfect job opportunity for you and you may just be the individual that we are looking for! 

Job Overview: 
As Creative Lead, you will work on-site within a professional services firm alongside a team of four highly skilled and multi-disciplined creative designers and a Studio Manager, who as a team manage a broad range of corporate design projects. You will oversee the creative output and lead the design team with conceptual designs and new ideas. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing in-house design studio and provide creative direction to a dynamic Marketing team. 

Digital design experience is required to support the client’s digital comms strategy, so an ability to design cutting edge responsive emails, websites and social media graphics is essential. You should have a great portfolio of engaging UI designs and posses an ability to support the redesign of mobile and web applications. An understanding of all things digital and the possibilities and limitations for design and deployment across digital campaigns is required. You will, from time to time, work alongside a developer on ad-hoc projects. An understanding of filming and photography would also be useful. 

You will primarily be responsible for the creative direction of the studio, mentoring junior members of the team and ensuring a high quality creative output which aligns to the client’s briefs and requirements. Project management skills are beneficial and the candidate should have a polite, friendly and can do attitude. Good verbal and written communication skills are required. 

Within the studio, creative and digital work within brand guidelines includes the creation print and digital reports, brochures, emails, factsheets, newsletters, event collateral and photography. Working days and hours are Monday to Friday between 9:00am – 5:30pm.

Ideal Fit: 
The ideal candidate will have a passion and understanding of digital design in order to support the drive to offer digital design services. You will have a positive, bright, helpful and friendly attitude, plenty of drive, energy, enthusiasm.. You will be a clear, confident and professional communicator, both verbally and in writing, with the ability to communicate and interact with our clients, stakeholders, senior management and colleagues. 

Required Experience: 
The right candidate will be a heavyweight digital and conceptual designer, experienced in working within a fast-paced, high frequency corporate design agency or professional services environment. You will have proven experience in a creative lead role, providing design concepts and creative direction along with knowledge and experience of layout design, graphic design fundamentals and typography. You will confidently scamp concepts, advise on digital design – social media integration, responsive emails and website design. You will also have a strong working knowledge of print and digital design required to liaise with printers and web developers alike and the ability to lead projects from concept to completion, undertaking concepts, designs or artwork as required; applying best practices and new ideas in user interface and interactive design projects. 

To be successful in this role, you must be confident in presenting creative concepts in face-to-face meetings with the client, be Mac literate and have knowledge of the latest Adobe CC suite. 

Package: 
In return the Creative Lead will receive a generous salary and benefits which include Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance/Life Assurance, Company Pension, Corporate Eye Care, Personal Accident and Company Sick Pay. Additional benefits such as Dental Insurance, Childcare Vouchers, Gym Membership, Charity Donations, Employee Offers, Retail Vouchers and Season Ticket Loan are offered at a discount on a salary sacrifice basis. You will also have the opportunity to work for a global employer dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects. 

To Apply: 
Please submit an updated CV and portfolio/link to portfolio along with a covering letter highlighting your suitability for the role. 

This vacancy is being advertised by Easy Web Recruitment, the UK’s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by Easy Web Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications.