Pursuit Designer Assistant Director

Location:

Anywhere in Country

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The Creative Design Manager is responsible for supporting the firm’s most high-value, strategic deals across the following scope of responsibilities:

• Develop and communicate complex ideas, solutions, and value propositions through compelling visual, cohesive, and persuasive narratives that resonate with clients and effectively convey the team's strategies
• Collaborate and stretch team’s thinking to integrate design elements seamlessly into proposals and materials, incorporating user-centered design principles, ensuring that the design not only is professional and visually appealing but also enhances the overall user experience and engagement approach.
• Ensure design work across all design assets remains consistent with the company's branding identity, while also tailoring visuals to resonate with the specific needs and preferences of client or industry.
• Infuse current design and industry trends, design techniques, and emerging technologies to bring fresh and innovative design ideas, enhancing the overall quality and impact of presentations and materials.

The Creative Design Manager is expected to be a beacon of pursuit excellence, bringing vast knowledge, tools, and resources from across the firm and their own professional experience to proactively deliver creative design assets progressing the pursuit towards a winning outcome.

Manage creative strategy that effectively conveys and enhances EY’s win themes, solutions and offerings.

• Responsible for developing the visual design strategies that support our win strategy and the client’s requirements using a variety of design tools and software.
• Contribute to overall win strategy by developing innovative visuals, presentations, graphics, and packaging methods which resonate with the client’s business issues, culture, industry and market position.
• Conduct client, service line/solution and sector research to develop a creative strategy that is tailored for the pursuits.
• Produce design comparable based on above research to give the team optionality in the creative strategy.
• Attend and contribute to pursuit strategy calls throughout the pursuit process to enhance knowledge of client and offering to further tailor the creative strategy and to proactively offer ideas for design solutions and innovation.
• Pitch and influence the pursuit team on creative strategy, including determining any budgetary needs and obtaining approval as applicable/necessary.

Creative production:
Produce tailored deliverables and graphics across the pursuit lifecycle on schedule and with the highest levels of quality.

• Translate the creative strategy into compelling pursuit deliverables (e.g., proposals, meetings documents, orals presentations, videos, custom graphics/tables/images/photos).
• In collaboration with the Deal Manager, establish the production process, timeline, and procedures to meet client/pursuit deadlines.
• Direct and manage any additional design resources and vendors needed to execute the creative strategy (e.g., offshore designers, reprographics, proofreaders, illustrators, video resources).
• Perform final QA/QC review, ensuring adherence to EY brand, visual identity, and quality standards.
• Develop innovative concepts for packaging design, print and collateral delivery when appropriate.

Translate visual strategies into forward-thinking designs and deliverables that resonate with the client and differentiate EY.

• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in design practices, technology, and formats.
• Keep abreast of industry knowledge…