Group Brand Graphic Designer
- London
- Full-time
- Marketing
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Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind the scenes. It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Affairs – to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives and contributing to the success of the business every day.
We’re recruiting for a Group Brand Graphic Designer to join us. This is a fantastic role for a mid-weight graphic designer where you can look forward to varied work, fantastic benefits and a genuine work/life balance.
What you'll be doing:
- Reporting into the Group Brand Manager, you'll be responsible for creative design that includes photography, illustration and presentation of assets. Accountable for ensuring all output meets brand guidelines, quality requirements, audience needs and strategic objectives.
- Creating and developing graphic design visual materials such as templates, printed and digital assets with an aim to ensure brand compliance and effectiveness. In addition, support with photo post production/enhancement where applicable.
- Contributing to the development of other creative assets (in partnership with the Group Content creator), such as video, social media, events, photo shoots and web pages.
- Contributing to creative ideation and concept development for campaigns and initiatives as required by core Group functions, including: Group Brand, Employee Communication, Employer Reputation and Talent Attraction.
- Ensuring that design assets are produced to agreed quality standards and timing, by managing own workload through a traffic management and effective briefing system, guided by the Group Brand Manager.
- Building and maintaining knowledge of design trends, ways of working and supporting platforms, through building internal relationships and regularly monitoring external information sources, to contribute to the Group Brand team and adjacent teams.
- Closely supporting on the Brand Hub (DAM system), ensuring that assets are managed appropriately, new learnings are clearly well articulated and support with the building of new pages where appropriate.
- Ensuring communications are clear, fair, and not misleading and are fully compliant with any rules and guidance issued by the relevant regulators, including relevant protection legislation.
Who we're looking for:
- You'll need a Degree in graphic design or visual communications or related field, or knowledge and skills built through self-study and professional experience.
- Proficient at layout design, including photo editing and manipulation cropping, retouching and resizing and visual communications principles.
- Proficient in colour theory and knowledge of how to use colour effectively and harmoniously to creative attractive and impactful design commensurate with campaign and content objectives.
- Solid understanding of typography and ability to work with various fonts, spacing, and layouts.
- Understanding of accessibility needs for audience members who are neurodiverse or visually impaired.
- Knowledge of multimedia production, video editing, or web design an advantage.
- Broad creative design skills and experience working within an agency or in-house within a creative service, brand, marketing or communications team.
- Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign). Advantageous to be knowledgeable of other industry software such as: Canva and Sketch.
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days' holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
- There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
Legal & General is a leading financial services organisation, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.
We’re one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. And enabling our people to create impact through work that is meaningful and valued.
If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We strive to be open, mindful, and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.
If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.
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