Graphic Designer

Brabners; Preston; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Flexible working hours

Pension scheme

Life Insurance & Income Protection

25 days Annual Leave + flex bank

Career Development Opportunities

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Brabners is seeking an experienced Graphic Designer to join its Marketing & Communications team in Preston. You will protect the brand, create engaging content across digital, print and social channels, and own creative projects from concept to delivery.

You'll work with colleagues across marketing and digital, developing compelling visuals and templates, while ensuring consistency and high-quality design that supports the firm's strategic objectives and engages both internal and external

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a Graphic Designer role, creating engaging content across channels.
• Strong portfolio showcasing branding, campaigns and high-quality design work.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe CC (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop).
• Understanding of branding, typography, layout and visual storytelling.
• Experience developing assets for marketing campaigns and brand initiatives.
• Ability to act as a brand guardian and maintain consistency.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and creation of engaging content across digital, print and social channels.
• Support the development and delivery of firm-wide brand campaigns.
• Guard the Brabners brand, ensuring consistency across all communications.
• Collaborate with Senior Marketing Managers on campaign assets and concepts.
• Work with Digital teams to create content for online channels.
• Create templates, presentations, reports and branded materials for colleagues.
• Manage and develop the firm's image library and visual assets.
• Bring fresh ideas and creative thinking to every project.
• Help maximise value and reuse of creative assets across marketing.
• Monitor design trends and opportunities to improve communications.

Skills

Graphic design

Branding

Adobe Creative Cloud

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

Stakeholder management

Project management

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe CC

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Graphic Designer to join our Marketing & Communications team and play a key role in shaping and protecting our brand. This is an exciting opportunity for a creative and results-driven designer who enjoys bringing ideas to life, developing engaging campaigns and creating standout visual content across a wide range of channels.

The role

Reporting to the Head of Communications, you'll act as a guardian of the Brabners brand, ensuring consistency across all visual communications while helping to bring our purpose, performance and personality to life. You will work closely with colleagues across marketing, communications and digital, creating compelling content that supports our strategic objectives and enhances engagement with both internal and external audiences.

This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact. You'll take ownership of creative projects from concept through to delivery, helping to shape the visual identity of a leading independent law firm.

What you'll be doing

• Leading the design and creation of engaging visual content across digital, print and social media channels.

• Supporting the development and delivery of firmwide brand campaigns.

• Acting as a custodian of the Brabners brand, ensuring consistency across all communications.

• Working alongside Senior Marketing Managers to create impactful campaign assets and creative concepts.

• Collaborating with the Digital team to develop engaging content for our online channels.

• Creating templates, presentations, reports and other branded materials for colleagues across the firm.

• Managing and developing the firm's image library and visual asset resources.

• Bringing fresh ideas and creative thinking to every project.

• Supporting colleagues across marketing to maximise the value and reuse of creative assets.

• Monitoring design trends and identifying opportunities to enhance how we communicate and engage with our audiences.

About you

We're looking for someone who combines creativity with an understanding of the role that great design plays in building a strong, distinctive and purpose-led brand.

You’ll be a confident and experienced Graphic Designer, capable of managing multiple projects, building strong relationships with stakeholders and producing high-quality creative work that delivers real impact.

You’ll ideally have

• Demonstrable experience in a Graphic Designer role, creating engaging content across a variety of channels.

• A strong portfolio showcasing creative thinking, campaign development and high-quality design work.

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.

• A strong understanding of branding, typography, layout, visual storytelling and design best practice.

• Experience developing creative assets for marketing campaigns and wider business initiatives.

• The ability to act as a brand guardian, ensuring consistency across all visual communications.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence where appropriate.

• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and competing deadlines.

• Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to producing work of the highest standard.

• Knowledge of print production processes and requirements.

• A collaborative approach, with the ability to build strong relationships and work effectively across teams.

• A genuine passion for design, creativity and keeping up to date with emerging trends and best practice.

Agencies

We are not accepting CVs for this role as we are aiming to fill it directly. We value your support and will reach out if required. Please do not send speculative CVs. Any unsolicited CVs sent to hiring managers or the business, without prior instruction from a member of the Talent Acquisition team, will be treated as a gift.

BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary

• Flexible approach to working hours

• Medicash

• Discretionary bonus opportunities

• Pension scheme

• Life Insurance & Income Protection Insurance

• 25 days Annual Leave plus flex bank holidays (increasing with service)

• Option to buy 10 additional days annual leave each year

• 2 My Days (in addition to your holiday entitlement)

• Additional discretionary annual leave days

• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Leave

• Career Development Opportunities

• Wellbeing and Mental Health Benefit (24/7 Employment Assistance Program & Support)

ABOUT US

Brabners is purpose-led independent law firm. A certified B Corp with award-winning environmental credentials, we seek to demonstrate that business can bring about positive change by being innovative, diverse and sustainable.

With over 200 years of history, we’re proudly anchored in the North but serve businesses and individuals across England and Wales.

We have won awards for being innovative at the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards and diverse as Manchester Law Society’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions. We are also recognised as one of the 25 best large companies to work for in the UK and have won The Legal 500 Future Lawyers awards for job satisfaction, quality of work, social life and work/life balance.