Responsibilities
- Creating high-quality design solutions across digital, social, environmental graphics, OOH, presentations, print and experiential sponsorship materials
- Developing visual concepts that support sponsorship storytelling and brand-building objectives
- Ensuring all creative adheres to the brand Visual Identity and accessibility standards
- Proactively suggesting alternative approaches to enhance creative impact
- Delivering production-ready artwork across various formats, ensuring accurate specifications for print, digital and physical installations
- Adapting and versioning assets for partners, channels or market requirements
- Maintaining structured file management, version control and asset governance
- Working with precision across multiple concurrent projects with varying turnaround times (hours–days for amends; days–weeks for new development)
- Working closely with colleagues in the Sponsorship Partnerships and Group Brand teams to develop creative solutions that maximise rights utilisation
- Managing feedback cycles, timelines and approvals with clarity and professionalism
- Developing strong working relationships with third-party suppliers and agencies to create efficiencies
- Building trusted relationships with Brand Management, Corporate Communications and PPCR colleagues
- Driving the collaborative culture of the Group Creative Services team to deliver integrated outputs
- Liaising with external agencies, rights holders and production vendors to ensure consistent brand execution
- Supporting the development and continuous improvement of sponsorship design workflows, templates and guidelines
- Contributing proactively to team improvements and efficiency gains
- Operating with autonomy on day-to-day design decisions within established brand and sponsorship frameworks
- Escalating risks, complex stakeholder issues or creative conflicts appropriately
- Taking accountability for quality, accuracy and brand compliance of all creative outputs
Requirements
- 3–7+ years' experience as a brand or marketing designer in an agency or in-house setting
- Strong brand design experience across multi-channel creative
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro)
- Solid design fundamentals: typography, colour theory, layout, visual hierarchy and composition
- Experience preparing final artwork and delivering to precise technical specifications
- Strong craft in managing multiple concurrent projects with excellent organisational discipline
- Excellent communication and confident day-to-day stakeholder engagement
- Experience working collaboratively within established brand guidelines and responding to shifting priorities
- Ability to work with pace and precision under tight deadlines
- Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems
- CMS experience or familiarity with how brand assets are distributed digitally
- Great attention to detail: meticulous approach to file management, version control and brand compliance
- Flexible: able to move seamlessly between execution-focused brief work and strategic creative input and also able to pivot to accommodate changing priorities
- Organised: manages priorities effectively, maintains strong project discipline and meets varying deadlines with consistency
Nice to Have
- Financial services experience
- Experience designing sponsorship assets or working with sports/entertainment partnerships
- Motion graphics or animation capability
- Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools
- Experience working alongside film/photography teams or experiential environments
- Proactive mindset: although the roles are primarily brief-led rather than concept-led, we still value proactivity, especially when it comes to identifying improvements and efficiencies
- Collaborative approach: works positively within a fast-paced, delivery-focused team culture across Brand, Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility
Additional Information
- Hybrid working with three fixed anchor days in the client's offices each week (currently Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday)
- Attendance at other locations or on additional days may occasionally be required
- We support flexible working and are open to different arrangements
- We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process
- No line management responsibility in either role
- Output is predominantly digital-first, with some print and occasional environmental and experiential work depending on project needs
- Approximately 70–80% of time spent adapting, versioning, and producing existing assets for different partners, channels, or market requirements
- Approximately 20–30% of time spent developing new creative concepts and visual solutions
