Mid-weight Graphic Designer

Exciting Opportunity for an Mid-weight Graphic Designer

Salary : £35,000 FTE (£28,000 pro rata)

Location: Home based with some travel to head office as required

Hours: 30 hours across 4 or 5 days, to be discussed and agreed

Do you want to work for a company where wellbeing is more than a word, it’s a commitment? Somewhere where the person matters as much as the professional?

Well at The Progress Group, that’s just the approach we take.

Our top-notch benefits go beyond the basics—enjoy access to discounted gym memberships and a free wellbeing app that is jam packed.

But that’s not all, we also offer…

• Professional Development:
  Support for professional qualifications, in-house training, including paid qualifications. Last year we invested approx. £3.5k per colleague!
• Financial Security:
  Death in Service Insurance providing four times your salary.
• Family-Friendly Policies:
  Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave.
• Health and Wellbeing Cashback:
  Access to Medicash for you and your dependants, covering the costs of eye tests, optical, dental, prescriptions, and holistic treatments up to £900 annually.
• Recognition Awards:
  Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual Recognition Awards.
• Referral Bonus: £500 for referring top talent.
• Exclusive Discounts:
  MiRewards benefits platform, offering loads of discounts and rewards
• Commute in Style:
  Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Supportive Environment:
  Enhanced Employee Assistance Programme for you and your immediate family.
• Group Connection:
  Annual Group conference and a comprehensive benefits review.

Are you an experienced designer with a sharp strategic eye and a portfolio of creative work to prove it? The Progress Group have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Mid-Weight Graphic Designer to join our well-established in-house Marketing Team on a part-time basis. Working closely with our Creative Lead, this role would suit a freelance designer looking to bring their skills into a part-time in-house role, or someone with an agency background who is used to managing multiple brands simultaneously.

• Use creative briefs to independently produce high-quality design collateral across a broad range of projects for each of the brands within the group
• Work with the Creative Lead to produce conceptual documents as needed, to help evolve and elevate the brands
• Create social media and digital assets, applying strategic brand awareness to strengthen consistency and recognition
• Confidently implement our brand guidelines when completing design briefs, and using your experience to help evolve them where useful
• Show initiative and strategic thinking to question and shape briefs where required, working with the marketing team to ensure designs fulfil objectives while working to deadlines
• Manage multiple brands and design briefs simultaneously, prioritising effectively to deliver high-quality work at pace
• Manage day-to-day tasks and projects effectively through Asana, ensuring all design jobs are delivered on time

• Extensive, hands-on knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design
  - Essential
• Excellent layout, typographic and art direction skills – Essential
• Experience of using Adobe Premiere and After Effects
  -Preferred
• A portfolio demonstrating a varied range of design work across a multitude of platforms including web, mobile, print, display etc.
  
  - Essential
• Good working knowledge of print processes and production – Essential
• The ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  - Essential
• Strong communication skills
  - Essential
• Excellent organisational skills and an ability to work on multiple brands and projects simultaneously, with confidence to manage your own workload
  - Essential

The Progress Group is a…