Designer / Creative Lead

Designer / Creative Lead Salary: £50,000 per annum Location: 50 Stratton Street, London, W1J 8LL Contract: 9-12 months Fixed term contract, with potential to become perm, full time Shifts: 9:00 – 17:00 (Mon-Fri), 30 minute unpaid break Work Model: Hybrid – 60% office, 40% home Williams Lea seeks a Creative / Design Lead to join our team! Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled business-critical support services to financial, legal and professional services firms. Sound good so far? Then this is the perfect position for you, and you are just the individual that we are looking for! Purpose of the role Williams Lea is seeking a Creative Lead to support in managing our on-demand design centre in the banking sector. The ideal candidate will have experience in leading and mentoring creative teams, delivering innovative and creative solutions, and ensuring high-quality design output. The successful candidate will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to provide design solutions that meet the client's expectations.

Our core focus is to deliver high quality corporate information. You will be expected to advise the client and implement the best solutions to their visual communication needs, whilst providing direction and guidance to members of staff in achieving these aims.

You will be working to drive an existing creative/design department offering alternate solutions to pitchbook & marketing produced by the onsite document production and graphics operators offering new ideas and concepts to enhanced output. You will also be producing graphics and artwork using a variety of software programmes, servicing all departments of the Bank. Graphics work includes creating design concepts and artworking for marketing campaigns, brochures, adverts, events and conference collateral. Multimedia work may include branded HTML emails, Flash animations/presentations and web publishing. Key Responsibilities

• Meeting clients to discuss the business objectives and requirements of the job
• Interpreting the client's business needs and developing a concept to suit their purpose
• Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts
• Demonstrating illustrative skills with rough sketches
• Project management, pre empting issues, coordinating artwork, print & delivery, web-work
• Design and art working from initial creative concepts through to final delivery
• Presenting finalised ideas and concepts to clients
• To liaise with external suppliers of services to ensure that work meets exact requirements as specified
• To guide and advise other members of the team in the design and use of template material, providing training where necessary
• To follow clearly defined department workflow processes including quality control and pre-flight checking
• To punctually complete time-sheets, work tickets and to give an accurate reflection of time spent on all projects
• To provide cover for Workflow and or Manager where necessary

Essential skills/background

• Formally design trained with a relevant qualification in graphic design
• An excellent knowledge and experience of printing techniques and issues
• Able to develop compelling concepts and offer innovative design solutions within tight corporate design guidelines
• Experience of estimating, project management, print buying and scheduling
• Creative flair
• Confidence to present and articulate ideas to clients and colleagues
• The ability to balance work on several projects at a time

Technical skills

• Expert level Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe illustrator
• Intermediate Flash, Adobe Premiere and Dreamweaver
• Good familiarity with PPT, Excel and Word
• Strong Acrobat skills including advanced functions
• Pre-Press: highly experienced and expert at checking of files before sending to printers, including complex cutter guides, measurements and colour set up

Personal attributes

• Approach - Calm and mature personality with the ability to work both on own initiative and in a team environment, often under pressure and to strict deadlines
• Design Skills - strong level of technical and creative design knowledge
• Flexibility - flexibility regarding working hours
• Client Focus - must demonstrate a client focused approach to providing a service through personal commitment to the client and their business. Should build effective client relationships based on trust, flexibility and a professional approach and be able to deal confidently with clients.
• People skills - must demonstrate good 'people skills' and keep clients informed of progress and the processes involved.
• Project/Time Management - excellent time management skills, Designer will be required to manage several projects on a daily basis, with the ability to prioritise and delegate.

The Package Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance/Life Assurance, Company Pension, Corporate Eye Care, Personal Accident and Company Sick Pay. Additional benefits such as Dental Insurance, 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; and dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects. The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (each of these being a “protected characteristic” in discrimination law). It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values openness, fairness and transparency. Please note: Due to the high volume of responses received for this role we will not be able to contact all applicants directly. If you have not heard from us in four weeks please consider your application unsuccessful.