Graphic Designer

Summary

Join Brakes as a Graphic Designer for a 9-month maternity cover contract! Working fully remotely, you'll be a key member of the Bid Management Team, creating visually compelling content for proposals and tenders. Your designs will significantly impact the company's success rate. This role requires expertise in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office, along with strong design and layout skills. You'll manage the design workload, collaborate with other teams, and stay updated on design trends. Brakes offers a competitive salary and benefits package, and values diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• Must be an expert in the Adobe Creative Suite; most importantly Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
• Proficient in both Microsoft Word and Powerpoint programs; creating templates in Adobe and hosting them in Microsoft, creating and designing large Powerpoint presentations, designing strong layouts for colleagues to work from
• Must be familiar with creating large brochures in Adobe InDesign, and creating ad-hoc artwork within spec guidelines, all in readiness for the print-process
• Strong design skills / proven experience in artworking and production
• Strong layout and typography skills
• Proactive and self-motivated work style with proven ability to manage multiple projects and changing priorities

Responsibilities

• Ensure all artwork uses high quality imagery, is creative and engaging and suitable for external audiences
• Provide eye catching and compelling designs across a range of media and to stay up to date with design software
• Adhere to brand guidelines whilst pushing the boundaries to be as innovative and eye-catching as possible
• Stay up to date with design developments, leverage opportunities to learn and ensure our proposal media and designs are ever evolving, and share ideas with the wider team
• Provide professional input and assist other business units (i.e. marketing) as required on an ad hoc basis
• Manage the bid team design workload, assign briefs to the Artworker and review all design work produced

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits
• Fully Remote