Designer

The global brand centre of excellence organized across 3 regional hubs (Durham, USA – London, UK – Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia) is responsible for deploying the Association’s brand strategy through visual and verbal identity and customer activation.

The ideal candidate (based in London) will work closely with other design leads in regional hubs. Our designer will get results for our business by being a thoughtful, driven, self-starting visual storyteller. You will develop compelling concepts and ideas that work across digital, social, motion and print to create relevant, engaging and authentic brand experiences across our respective customer journeys.

• Participate in key client briefings to understand business need and insight

• Develop ideas and concepts to solve communication challenges across all media

• Present and ‘sell’ creative concepts to clients articulating the emotion, logic and rationale with passion

• Develop design solutions based on concepts

• Support and evangelize the development of our internal design philosophy

• Evolve our visual language, build and manage creative assets

• Balance the needs of a wide range of projects and executions from short- to long-term.

• Support global brand governance and management

• Partner with brand and communications centres of excellence, the regions and key business owners

• Proactively bring insights and trends to help inform high quality creative ideas and execution

• Mentor and guide and future junior and mid-level staff

• No direct responsibilities

• Adobe Creative Suite (Creative Cloud)

• Design for Social and digital

• Appreciation of UI and UX desirable

• Proven experience in creating well designed presentations and presenting arguments
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as a team
• Understanding of HTML and CSS, their use and limitations
• Comprehensive technical background
• Understanding of how to work creatively while maintaining brand standards
• Working understanding of digital trends and innovations

• A broad background that includes top-level design for print, presentations, digital, social and identity guides

• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, including InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop;

familiarity with video and animation software is a plus

• Practiced storytelling and communication skills; comfortable in small group setting

and delivering presentations to a larger audience

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships across multiple departments, regions and in all levels of management and third parties

• Solid portfolio demonstrating your experience with strategic planning, system-level thinking, and beginning-to-end conceptual ideas

• Organized with the ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment with multiple

projects and priorities that change frequently

Preferred Experience, Qualifications & Education

• Ideally 5+ years of experience working on a design team; either agency or client side

• Experience working with global organizations with a multi-product architecture desirable

• Background in both b2b and b2c environments preferred