Senior Designer

Summary

Join OLIVER, a leading specialist in building in-house marketing agencies, as a Senior Designer in Nottingham, England. Working within the health, wellness, and beauty sectors, you will create impactful marketing materials, from campaigns to social media assets. You will lead and mentor other designers, manage projects independently, and collaborate with clients. The role demands strong design skills, project management abilities, and excellent communication. Success requires a proactive attitude, a commitment to sustainability, and the ability to deliver high-quality work within a fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for developing creative concepts, interpreting marketing ideas into visuals, and providing production support.

Requirements

• Strong project management skills, organizational skills and time-management skills
• Can present and sell their own work alongside articulate and intelligent creative rationales
• Keeps up to date with current design thinking and trends
• Starting to become a sector and brand specialist
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, along with the ability to listen for understanding to execute the work according to the customers’ needs
• Excellent interpersonal skills - able to express themselves and the proven ability to build and maintain strong internal relationships
• Skills to lead and brief designers, offering constructive feedback allowing them to push the quality of the work
• Proactive, positive, can-do attitude with a strong work ethic
• Can confidently lead a shoot
• You can be the change - you prioritise environmental responsibility, social equity, and economic viability and how that translates into your day-to-day role

Responsibilities

• Develop creative and graphic concepts (for digital and print) in collaboration with assigned teams to meet the aims of the brief
• Have great design sense and a confident approach to language idea generation
• Illustrates concepts by designing rough layout of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type size and style, and related aesthetic concepts
• The ability to interpret marketing ideas and turn them into a high quality visuals
• Regular creation of speculative ideas
• Starting to challenge briefs and creative direction (where appropriate)
• Can self-edit and refine their own thinking before internal reviews
• Can support projects throughout all stages, from initial concept development, up to production
• Interact regularly with creative leadership, creative partners and other team members as needed for completion of assigned projects
• Receive feedback from management and uses that feedback to grow skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced multi-tasking environment
• Help with any design emergencies across our network that need to be done right first time
• Provide production support to produce technically correct, digital or print ready mechanicals for release
• You will be open and willing to attend sustainability training relevant to your role and soak up recommended research and reading about sustainability issues