Creative Lead

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Salary: £65,000 per annum, plus company benefits

Location: City of London

Contract: Full Time

Shifts: 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 9am until 5:30pm with 1 hours unpaid lunch break

Work model: Fully onsite

Williams Lea seeks Creative Lead to join our team!

Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled, technology-enabled, business-critical support services, with long-term trusted relationships with blue-chip clients across investment banks, law firms and professional services firms. Williams Lea employees, nearly 7000 people worldwide, who provide efficient business services at client sites in often complex and highly regulated environments, from centralised Williams Lea onshore facilities, and through best cost company offshore locations.

Purpose of role

Williams Lea is seeking a Creative Lead to support in managing our on-demand design centre. 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 working to drive an existing creative/design department offering alternate solutions to pitchbook and 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. 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.

The role is based onsite at of the world's leading Investment Banks working with a large and established team.

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 and 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 work with other designers both onsite and offshore to ensure that the quality of the work they produce is up to the required levels
• 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

Personal attributes

• 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
• 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 (add information)

Rewards and Benefits

We believe in supporting our employees in both their professional and personal lives. As part of our commitment to your well-being, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays(pro-rata for part time or fixed term roles)
• Salary sacrifice schemes, retail vouchers - including our TechScheme which can be used on a range of gadgets such as Smart TV's, laptops and computers or household appliances.
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Assessments
• Discounted gym memberships
• Referral Scheme

You will also have the opportunity to work for a global employer who is dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects!

Equality and Diversity

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.

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