Middleweight Designer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - SGS&Co | Marks.

SGS&Co | Marks.

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Marks is a global brand design and experience agency, uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change.

Marks is a part of SGS & Co, a brand impact group that enables it's household name clients to get there first - empowering acceleration on a global scale.

From vision-building to detailed execution, we enable brands to move faster and shift impact.

We are currently seeking a Middleweight Designer to join our talented team based in Birmingham.

In this role, you will translate brand needs into distinctive visual outcomes - designing, crafting and implementing the brand experience across all touch points, through intelligently applied insight, compelling concepts, confident creativity and consistent activation.

As a valuable player in the design team, you will have opportunity to build your expertise across brand design, typography, illustration, photography, finishes and print processes.

What you'll do:

Working with Design Directorate and Senior Designers to understand the brief, brand guidelines, technical constraints for the project and aiding them guide junior team members.
Challenging the brief, delivering the expected and the unexpected in your response
Effectively managing your time, collaborating with Resource Managers
Being a team player. Keeping the channels of communication open between Design, Client Service, Strategy and Operations teams, seeking guidance when things change
Adding value to internal design reviews, offering fresh perspective, giving feedback to executional consistency, art direction of photography.
Championing and following our file set up, file naming and server filing procedures.
Proactively assisting the team, contributing to studio inspiration and design events.

What you'll have:

25 years experience within a branding, packaging, and corporate identity role
Understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the world they inhabit
Emerging coaching and mentoring skills
A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related field
Ability to confidently and clearly articulate your thinking
Know when a sketch is more persuasive than a mac visual
Ability to multitasking and excellent time management skills
Excellence in Adobe CC, (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Keynote
If you have knowledge of designing for ecommerce, and/or animation in After effects, that would be highly advantageous.

What we offer:

You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other benefits of working for Marks including: