Junior Designer - Sponsorship Job London area,Greater London England UK,Creative Arts/Media

JOB FUNCTION: This role will be responsible for supporting the preparation of sales presentations to drive new business commercial revenue or for the retention of existing revenue. The primary activities will consist of supporting the design team on image collation and art working.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Producing branded presentation materials for high-stakes partnership proposals.
Leveraging design skills in PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite to create visually compelling pitch materials and presentations.
Produce digital and printed artwork that intertwines both the Chelsea FC and prospects core brand values
Assisting the design team with creation of partner assets for tv interview backdrop boards, stadium LED signage, big-screen advertising and digital communications
Researching brands and companies brand guidelines on how they display their brand logos and accurate replication onto any tailored Chelsea FC presentations
Working with the Men’s and Women’s Commercial teams, understanding business requirements and creative brief to deliver pitch materials in line with business objectives
Maintain the image bank for commercial purposes, ensuring this remains up-to-date, proactively sourcing and cataloguing images from other department stakeholders and club photography/image portals after matchdays
Methodical filing of created materials and maintaining version control
Understanding and application of latest Chelsea FC brand guidelines to design materials

MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE:

Ensure that all sponsorship collateral/online messages are consistent with brand and corporate standards, speaks the Chelsea FC ‘language’ and upholds brand values.
Consistently meet deadlines and ability to flag capacity planning issues.
Ability to balance quality of work against production and volume deadlines.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

Experience

Proven agency or in-house design experience
Proficient across a presentation software and have experience of using this in prior roles as a main design platform.
Proven experience as a designer within the sports industry

Skills and Behaviours:

Passionate to work for one of the world’s biggest football clubs and come eager to improve your design understanding and technique.
Proficient skills with Adobe Creative Suite; specifically;
InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
Excellent time management skills and willingness to be flexible with working hours, subject to key deadlines
Highly organised and adaptable, able to work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Good relationship, communication and interpersonal skills
In depth knowledge of high-end retouching and photo editing.
Experience in Premiere Pro and After Effects

OUR EXPECTATIONS:

To embody the club’s BLUE behaviours (Brave, Lead, Unity, Edge) in the approach to work and interaction with others
To adhere to the club’s policies and procedures, including Health & Safety, Financial Authorisation, Confidentiality and GDPR.
To act as an ambassador for diversity, equality, and inclusion, and demonstrate a positive commitment by treating others fairly in line with our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policy and reporting any acts of discrimination through appropriate channels
To create a safe environment and act to protect all young people and vulnerable adults that are either in your care or attending club premises, and report any concerns to the Safeguarding Lead
To report any misconduct or suspected misconduct to the HR Department

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

At Chelsea we recognise that the diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths and we are taking positive action to ensure our existing colleagues and job applicants can fully be themselves and bring their own unique experiences and perspectives to Chelsea…