Junior Designer London 2024

We are seeking a Junior Designer to join our team!

Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled business-critical support services to financial, legal and professional services firms.

Built on a strong heritage, great client relationships and a talented team, Williams Lea is the trusted global outsourcing provider to clients in highly regulated environments. Williams Lea serves clients in 20 countries across four continents and has 7,000 employees worldwide.

Purpose of role

A continued growth of our services at this client site, the increase of complex digital projects, means we are seeking a talented and dynamic all-rounder to join our small creative team within a prominent investment bank.

To be considered for this role you will demonstrate excellent client and team focus, be an all-round team player with the ability to support in various areas and show experience of providing creative and innovative proposals and questioning traditional approaches.

Our core focus is to deliver high quality corporate information, whilst providing direction and guidance to members of staff in achieving these aims. You will be expected to advise the client and implement the best solutions to their visual communication needs. Knowledge of print production cycle, workflow, project management and web technology are requirements for this role also.

You will be working as part of a team making small amends to design collateral using a variety of computer based software for external and internal presentations, conferences, seminars, concepts, brochures, adverts, events for both print, digital and web based. Strong organisational skills and ability to work on several projects at once is a must.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a liaison between the creative team and other departments to ensure effective collaboration and smooth workflow.
• Project management, pre-empting issues, coordinating with external print manager, print & delivery, web-work and workflow
• Quality check high-quality design, artwork within corporate brand guidelines and to approved briefs and timescales
• Making minor amends to working projects across all collateral
• To carry out image searches and download from specific image libraries (istock, etc)
• Brand implementation (understanding the brand strategy and applying it to all areas of the work that comes in to the department)
• Ensure compliance with brand guidelines, legal requirements, and industry standards.
• Be a part of a wider team that produces print, digital and written content
• The role will involve regular interaction with clients, as well as close collaboration with your creative colleagues, bringing a breadth of creativity and innovation to the team. Working in a highly compliant environment, you will provide a seamless service that surpasses client briefs, whilst ensuring the delivery of on-brand creative material
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously, adhering to project timelines and deadlines.
• Technical support and problem solving
• Effectively use the workflow management tools and processes
• Responsibility for own work, ensuring consistency, accuracy and quality
• To ensure quality control and pre-flight checking procedures are adhered along with all other departmental policies
• To guide and advise other members of the team in the design and use of template material, providing training where necessary
• Meeting clients to discuss the business objectives and requirements of projects
• Interpreting the client's business needs and working with the team to propose a concept to suit their purpose
• Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts
• Confident in presenting finalised ideas and concepts to clients
• To follow clearly defined department workflow processes including quality control and pre-flight checking

Key requirements

• Minimum 12 months practical experience of corporate creative production
• The ability to use Creative Cloud software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and InDesign
• Familiar with working to corporate guidelines
• Used to providing a high level of customer service
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross functional teams.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Self motivated with the ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Good interpersonal skills must be able to communicate clearly and confidently with colleagues and clients at all levels
• Willing and able to handle all daily aspects, including formatting and carrying out final checks
• Comfortable in a corporate City environment, including the need to dress appropriately for a finance sector setting
• A willingness to undertake overtime when this is required

Rewards & benefits

We believe in supporting our employees in both their professional and personal lives. As part of our commitment to your well-being, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Salary sacrifice schemes, retail vouchers – Including our TechScheme which can be used on a range of gadgets such as Smart TV’s, laptops & computers or household appliances.
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance,
• Health Assessments
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Gym memberships
• Referral Scheme

You will also have the opportunity to work for a global employer who is dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects!

Equality & diversity

The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (each of these being a “protected characteristic” in discrimination law). It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values openness, fairness and transparency.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like to make a reasonable adjustment to enable you to make an interview please contact us at careersatWL@williamslea.com

Due to the high volume of responses received for this role we will not be able to contact all applicants directly. If you have not heard from us in four weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.