Creative Lead
$15,000–$55,000 year
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom or Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Conduct integrated creative solutions and campaigns for a leading global law firm, managing the rollout of consistent branded materials across print and digital channels. Liaise with clients to interpret briefs, challenge requirements, and resolve issues while delivering high-quality marketing collateral and infographics. Produce templates, write print specs, and ensure project accuracy within budget constraints. Lead the offsite team through 1-1s, performance reviews, and upskilling initiatives to focus on digital solutions. Maintain strict adherence to brand guidelines and typography systems while balancing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
Required Qualifications
- Formally design trained with a relevant qualification in graphic design or relevant industry experience
- Strong editorial design experience, including long-form documents and reporting layouts
- Advanced expertise in typography, layout systems, composition and information hierarchy
- Proven experience writing brand guidelines to ensure consistency across print and digital
- Experience in rolling out brand to support large-scale brand adoption
- Confidence to present and explain ideas to clients and colleagues
- Ability to balance work on several projects at a time
- Understand and anticipate clients' needs and expectations
- Innovative with the ability to implement problem solving initiatives
- Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail
- Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite; Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premier Pro, After effects, Dreamweaver
- Experience in storyboarding animation and motion
- Skill in animation and motion graphics
- Video editing using Adobe suite
- Knowledge of SharePoint
- Working knowledge of MS Office
- Extremely organised and dedicated individual
- Strong communications skills
- Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, spanning print, digital/moving image design
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- If Leeds based would be in the office 3 times per week
- If London based would be in the London office once per week and visit Leeds once per month
- Contract: Full Time, Permanent
- Shifts: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 9am until 5:30pm
- 1 hours unpaid break
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working with design principles of animation and moving image
- Ability to develop compelling concepts and offer innovative design solutions within corporate design guidelines
- Strong organisational and communication skills
- Proactive, detail-oriented individual
- Ability to interpret client briefs, translating them into effective, on-brand creative solutions
- Experience providing outstanding printed and digital marketing collateral, in compliance with brand guidelines
- Think creatively to produce new ideas and concepts
- Experience producing templates and ensuring consistency of design across the brand rollout and adoption across digital and print
- Provide technical input and advice on print and digital projects as required
- Produce final files for print and write print specs
- Lead and develop the team through 1-2-1's, team meetings, development and performance reviews
- Develop and up-skill the team to focus on digital solutions
- Ensure that the workload and team is staffed correctly i.e. absence and holidays
- Ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
- Create infographics
- Quality checking and accuracy
- Experience in rolling out brand to support large-scale brand adoption
- Confidence to present and explain ideas to clients and colleagues
- Ability to balance work on several projects at a time
- Understand and anticipate clients' needs and expectations
- Innovative with the ability to implement problem solving initiatives
- Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail
- Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite; Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premier Pro, After effects, Dreamweaver
- Experience in storyboarding animation and motion
- Skill in animation and motion graphics are preferred but not essential
- Video editing using Adobe suite is preferred but not essential
- Knowledge of SharePoint
- Working knowledge of MS Office skill
- Strong communications skills
- Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, spanning print, digital/moving image design along with working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- You will strive to achieve client satisfaction in all you do
- Your colleagues will support and help develop you wherever possible
- You will return the same sharing culture with your fellow colleagues and the business
- Longevity driven by innovation
- Ability to innovate and break new ground
- Connecting technology with expertise and strong processes to transform support services
- Helping businesses thrive in a future driven by digitization and virtualization
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