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Salary We're looking for a Graphic Designer to join our team in London as part of our Marketing function.
Your team: You will be joining the Experience team, reporting to the Senior Designer, with a brief to drive high quality design standards across all our branded collateral.
Your Role: You will work on creative projects from brief to delivery including the production of printed and digital branded collateral and ensure our brand guidelines are followed. Collaboration is key and you will need to work across WARC and the wider Ascential Business Units. There may be times when you will work with external designers and agencies
You will be a real team player, who can demonstrate creative thinking and be confident in your abilities to deliver with impact in an international organisation, with people from different cultural backgrounds. Time management skills and a proactive attitude are as important as creativity and the technical skills that are required for this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Create local/global collateral under the creative guidance of the manager and senior members of WARC and Lions division.
- Own project briefs from start to completion. Designs and tests work to make sure each project brief is completed in full, on time and in line with company standards and brand guidelines.
- Liaise and collaborate with relevant business partners to produce assets. Follow-up with questions, updates and edits as needed.
- Stay up to date on design best practices and innovation and actively share with others to improve know-how and design capability across the business.
- Self-directed and work independently to lead a creative project or collaborate with fellow brands and Business Unit (where relevant) Designers.
- While working on a project, continually share progress with the Senior Designer and other stakeholders to get feedback for improvement. Collaborate with external creative agencies or designers who are selected to work on projects with us.
- Offer insight and constructive feedback to other members of the Creative Studio to help expand and refine work.
- Design digital and print materials for a variety of projects, including social campaigns, events, branded collateral, and more.
- Play an active role in participating and sharing design best practices with the wider Ascential Design Community
- Be an advocate and ally for diversity, equity and inclusion
Your Experience
- You should be an excellent communicator, someone who collaborates well to complete projects on brief and on time.
- Stay up to date on upcoming trends, advancements and technologies in the design field.
- Must have strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator).
- Skills in After Effects or moving images are desirable
- Skills in typography, colour, print and web layout are essential requirements.
- Excellent organisational skills required; must be able to handle multiple projects and produce a high volume of quality work within tight deadlines.
- Must be self-motivated to own creative projects.
- A team player, comfortable with following directions and receiving feedback as required.
- Strong problem-solving skills are highly essential.
- Willing to work in flexible hours in different time zones from time to time if needed
- At least 2 years of experience working in a design role. Relevant experience working in a team-based environment is ideal
- Ideally experience and knowledge in data visualization, illustrations, photography and/ or animations (Experience in motion graphics preferred.)
- Experience using platform like Figma, Monday.com, Infogram, and/ or Marketo would be advantageous, but not essential.
If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At WARC, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.
Who are we?
WARC is the global authority on marketing effectiveness. We provide rigorous and unbiased evidence, expertise and guidance to help marketers navigate any challenges effectively.
WARC operates out of London, New York, São Paulo and Singapore to service a community of over 75,000 marketers in more than 1,200 companies in 100+ markets. Find out more at
warc.com
. WARC is part of Ascential plc. Ascential takes the world’s leading brands to the heart of what’s next for their industries. We do this through our events, intelligence products and advisory services. Our 700 people serve a global customer base from more than 100 countries in the large and growing Marketing and Financial Technology sectors. Ascential plc is listed on London Stock Exchange.
Why Choose Us?
Two divisions. Three continents. One great culture.
We strive for the highest standards in everything we do. But that’s not just for our customers. We want working for Ascential to be the best career move you’ve ever made.
Ascential is a people-powered company, and we’re committed to supporting each and every one of them. We publish an annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report that sets out our goals, commitments and progress so far. We invest in Employee Groups, empowering them to run educational events, support charities that they’re passionate about, and share experiences with colleagues. These groups include Able to Thrive, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and Empower Women's Network. And our inclusive recruitment practices and early talent programmes help us to bring curious, passionate people from every walk of life into our team.
We’re committed to ensuring that the impact of our business on our environment - and the communities we operate in - is a positive one. That means making sure that each event we run is the most sustainable it’s ever been. We also default all of our pension plans to ESG options, so that our people’s savings are invested in ways that help rather than hinder our planet.
Helping people to connect and drive progress isn’t a business-only goal. We know that the world is a better place when we all lead with heart, supporting charitable causes that make a difference. We provide opportunities to give back through Volunteer Days, our Employee Groups and our charity partner, The Prince’s Trust.
We value output, not hours. Most of our roles ask for 1-2 days a week in your nearest office. But if that’s not possible for you, let’s talk. Flexible work conversations are actively encouraged here, and always will be.
Only you know what’s most important to you. That’s why we offer benefits packages that you can tailor to your needs. These include:
- 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell upto 5 days
- Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection
- Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares Scheme
- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
- Great learning and development opportunities.
We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.
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