Junior Graphic Designer

Job role: Junior Graphic Designer

Location: Northwest Birmingham

Hybrid: 3 days in office

Type: Full time; 8:30am – 5:00pm

Salary: £24,000

Portfolio Needed

Role Purpose:

Your role will report to and work closely with the Marketing & Communication Manager to create and develop eye catching and compelling designs across a range of offline and online channels, ensuring that the firm is at the forefront of our market.

In Your role:

• Support the Marketing & Communication Manager with creating designs across a range of channels including; leaflets, posters, email campaigns, presentations, brochures, website content, social media platforms, and other documents.
• Work to bespoke creative briefs.
• Take ownership of wider projects to create exciting and innovative materials for national sales and promotions.
• Support the Marketing & Communication Manager with rolling out themed content across a multitude of formats from print to digital, driving awareness for the annual P & P Show.
• Preparing and sending artwork for print.
• Take ownership over the 'house style', ensuring all content is consistent and within brand guidelines.
• Liaise with external agencies such as printers and design companies on a day-to-day basis.
• Approve local creative designs from external agencies or creative freelancers.
• Support other departments in the company as and when required.
• Working with the Adobe Suite to manipulate images and retouch photos.
• Undertake competitor research and analysis.

Looking for:

• 1-2 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Experience across the Adobe creative software suite (Illustrator, In-design and Photoshop, etc).
• Comfortable working in MS Office (particularly Powerpoint and Word when creating graphs, tables and charts).
• Able to multi-task and manage different projects at one time.
• Ability to produce artwork from initial brief right up to the finished product.
• Be a brand guardian, ensuring consistency across all marketing channels.
• Attention to detail with a strong sense of colour and style.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive, well organised and self-motivated.
• The ability to provide creative content copywriting for social media campaigns.

Benefits:

• Upto £24,000 per annum.
• Parking on site.
• Discounted products.
• Free fruit/discounted confectionary.
• 23 days holiday inclusive of Xmas break.
• 5% pension contribution from employee.
• EAP scheme
• Cycle to work scheme