Specialist, Design

Duties & responsibilities

What this job involves

• Work with team to develop themes and brainstorm best visual representation of proposals and presentations
• Working with defined templates as well as creating new templates for graphically impressive proposals & presentations, including placement of images, illustrations and text for greatest impact
• Striving to innovate within brand standard guidelines
• Demonstrating real creativity with client branded documents as requested
• Transforming unrefined proposal drafts into highly impactful client-ready versions, both in MS Word and PowerPoint
• Taking full ownership of assigned projects, managing through to completion, ensuring quality and timely services, and providing ongoing communication to the team lead
• Display ability to meet the suggested deadline to ensure that the bid-response team can submit the completed document as per broader timelines
• Clearly communicating with, and providing regular updates to stakeholders to ensure that expectations around delivery timelines are carefully managed
• Proofing own work and collaborating with the team to ensure a high degree of accuracy and consistency
• Maintaining design library of previously utilized designs/templates as well as develop a repository of new ones

Performance objectives

Senior Designer should be able to understand the objective and target audience of the projects, and should be able to independently design and format large sales & corporate presentations, RFPs and RFIs documents using the brand guidelines with minimal art direction

Key skills

• Minimum 4+ years of relevant experience, in a professional services firm
• Proficiency with PC design tools such as Adobe creative suite and Microsoft Office suite
• Proficient in both print and digital graphic design
• Strong creative vision and visual arts skills
• High attention to detail with consistent high-quality deliverables
• Solid time/project management skills, managing multiple projects within tight deadlines

Employee specification

• Graduate / Post-Graduate
• Print and digital design/graphics experience from a professional organization
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Indesign & Illustrator