Designer

SUMMARY

Our client is one of the leading advertising agencies in the UK. Based in Soho, their retail department was founded based on a specific client need, to truly understand retail channels and work in close partnership with the account shopper team to ensure brand and financial messages resonated in the right way with the client's trade partners and customers. This entrenched and integrated way of working has since won them the business, embracing all the world class capability across the agency that has made it one of the most famous creative agencies in the world.

THE ROLE

You will be a hard working, experienced designer, working alongside the creative department delivering refined and considered flat print, 3D print and digital-based designs. Good communication skills and positive attitude is a must. Experience of working with a retail client would be an advantage.

KEY SKILLS

• An overall understanding of agency process and good commercial experience
• Demonstrate excellent Adobe CS skills (Indesign and photoshop)
• Able to produce 3D visualisation of work in-situ
• Ability to read, understand and adhere to brand guidelines
• Enthusiastic, hard working and ready for a challenge
• Keen attention to detail and able to work at pace
• To be good and nice

JOB SPECIFICS

• Responsible for originating and developing designs and ideas
• Take briefs from Account Manager's and clients and work with them to deliver highly considered outcomes
• Work collaboratively with the creative team through the design process
• Take responsibility for briefs worked on, including time management
• To ensure the best quality of output is delivered across every brief
• Able to create highly polished visual assets to help sell ideas/concepts

ATTITUDE

• Resilience, positivity, inventiveness, drive, charisma, hardworking, energetic
• Always remains positive and motivated, inspiring colleagues to maintain a similar attitude
• Great communication skills - able to build good relationships with their peers in the agency despite pressure or adversity
• To be solution driven - to be inquisitive, tenacious and determined. Always looking for new ways to deliver ground breaking work
• A team player who embraces the agency culture, gets involved with the various initiatives, enjoys working in a team, celebrates the successes of the agency and their peers and keep pushing for better work

REQUIRED SKILLS/ EXPERIENCE

• Ideally a degree qualification or equivalent in design
• Experience of working as a designer in an agency environment
• Excellent Adobe CS6 skills