Junior Graphic Designer

Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture,
you belong here.

Lockton is looking to add a Graphic Designer to support the People Solutions line of business. The Graphic Designer will produce high-quality projects, ensuring delivery of creative and error-free visual materials.

• Prepare a variety of high-quality, creative deliverables for Lockton Associates, following established design best practices and proofreading procedures.
• Provide proofreading services to team members.
• Communicate project status and deadlines to the manager as needed to ensure personal and departmental goals are met or exceeded.
• Attend team and department meetings.
• Complete special projects as assigned and serve as a resource to team members for creative ideas and technical software issues or questions.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits, such as meeting deadlines, honoring schedules, coordinating resources and meetings in an effective and timely manner, and demonstrating respect for others.
• All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established.

Requirements/

Qualifications:

• Degree in graphic art or equivalent education and/or experience. An insurance background is a plus.
• Working and demonstrated knowledge of the MS Office Suite—including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel—and Adobe Suite—including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign software products.
• High-level verbal, written, listening, and interpersonal skills to interact with Associates at all levels of responsibility.
• Ability to transfer knowledge effectively to team members.
• Strong multitasking skills with the ability to move from high-level creative projects to routine tasks.
• Strong organizational and time management skills to prioritize heavy workloads and meet time-sensitive deadlines.
• Ability to understand when to proceed independently and when to involve other team members.
• Exemplary aptitude and proven ability in the use of the English language with regard to sentence structure, punctuation, paragraph formation, grammar, and proofreading skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, structured environment.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment in interpreting instructions and suggest changes to the author as needed to produce a quality document.
• Ability to be self-motivated.
• Ability to complete continuing education requirements as needed.
• Ability to attend company, department, and team meetings as required, including industry training sessions.
• Ability to comply with all company policies and procedures, proactively protecting the confidentiality of client and company information.
• Ability to work on a computer for a prolonged period of time.
• Ability to work outside of normal business hours as needed.
• Legally able to work in the United States.
• Having a collaborative, service-oriented attitude is critical.

Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone an equal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.

At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone. We strive to cultivate a caring culture that learns from, celebrates and thrives because of our breadth of differences. As such, we recognize that recruiting, developing and retaining people with diverse backgrounds and experiences is vital and enabling our people to thrive personally and professionally is critical to our long-term success.

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