Graphic Designer

Berkeley Group; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Private medical insurance

Discount platform access

Berkeley Foundation volunteer day

Private pension plan

Group life assurance

Job summary

Berkeley Group seeks a Graphic Designer to join the Sales & Marketing team in London. You will design and produce high-quality print and digital materials, coordinate photography and liaise with agencies to ensure brand consistency across all communications.

The role involves rolling out design concepts, creating social content, ad artwork, and newsletters while adhering to corporate standards and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Creative Suite with focus on InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Strong digital and print design capabilities with attention to detail.
• Experience with digital advertising campaigns and brand consistency across channels.
• Ability to format PowerPoint, PDF and Word documents.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce print and digital marketing materials for development projects.
• Roll out concepts across brochures, banners, emails, flyers and web assets.
• Create and edit floorplans for brochures and internal sign-off.
• Develop digital ads and banners for campaigns.
• Create social content for channels including WeChat, WhatsApp and Instagram.
• Coordinate with printers and external agencies to meet production needs.
• Proofread and ensure high-quality output.
• Maintain brand guidelines across all touchpoints.
• Prepare internal and external newsletters and presentations.
• Create presentation templates for progress updates and development briefings.
• Develop email campaigns and other collateral to promote developments.
• Collaborate with IT, design agencies, copywriters, photographers and marketers.
• Utilize Photoshop/film editing and AI tools for image manipulation.
• Create animated elements for communications (GIFs, etc.).

Skills

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Creative Suite

Digital retouching

Print design

Digital campaigns

Brand continuity

Print production

PowerPoint

PDF

Word

CANVA

FOLEON

Time management

Tools

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

CANVA

FOLEON

Job description

Graphic Designer

Department: Sales & Marketing

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Aldgate, London

Description

Berkeley Group builds homes and neighbourhoods across London, Birmingham and the South of England. We revive underused land, creating welcoming, sustainable and nature-rich places where communities thrive and where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a great quality of life.

We specialise in long-term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders.

Our passion for quality and design underpins everything we do. All Berkeley homes are created with care, expertise and relentless attention to detail.

What you'll be doing

The Graphic Designer will work closely with the development Marketing teams to design and produce various high-quality print and digital marketing materials by laying out and editing text, formatting and inserting graphic elements, coordinating photography/videography and other material while adhering closely to corporate standards. The right candidate will also be able to work closely and liaise with external agencies as necessary.

• Use creativity and flair to design appealing collateral which may include: development brochures, factsheets, emailers, leaflets, signage, web banners and presentations
• Rolling out existing design concepts across print and digital collateral, including brochures, advertising, invitations, direct email, web banners, eDM’s, social media
• Design and editing floorplans for brochure use and internal sign off
• Creating and updating digital advertising artwork (MPU’s/banners)
• Creating and editing fresh content for WeChat, What’s App and other social channels
• Art working materials for print and act as liaison between printers to meet all production needs as and when appropriate
• Proofreading to ensure accurate and high-quality work
• Ensuring brand guidelines are applied consistently across all touch points
• Formatting and creation of internal and external newsletters and presentation documents
• Creating presentation templates to update staff on the progress of the business and development briefing presentations
• Creating email campaigns and other collateral such as flyers to promote developments to databases, as well as current and historic developments and local residents. HTML build experience would be a benefit.
• Creating social media posts for the development and Berkeley Group Instagram accounts as required
• Working collaboratively with Berkeley IT Group IT and digital terms, printers, external design agencies, copywriters, photographers, stylists, illustrators, web developers and marketing specialists as required
• Photoshop and film editing capability
• Ability to utilise AI to manipulate images as required
• Creating animated elements for use in our communications: GIFFS etc.

What you'll bring

• Exceptional skills in Creative Suite (specifically InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator)
• Digital retouching and image editing
• Confident working across both print and digital media – with a strength in digital
• Strong understanding of digital advertising including designing best-practice digital campaigns
• Strong understanding of design principles and brand continuity across platforms
• Knowledge of the print production process
• Ability to format PowerPoint, PDF and Microsoft Word documents
• Strong understanding and user of CANVA and FOLEON software
• Effective time management, relationship building and organisational skills

Why join us?

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with service to 33 days.
• Health and wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance.
• Lifestyle benefits including access to an online discount platform.
• Berkeley Foundation volunteer day.
• Private pension plan.
• Group life assurance.

The standard default full-time working hours in the office are 8am-5pm with core working hours 9am-4pm.

Internal applicants: If you’re an internal applicant, please ensure you’ve informed your line manager of your intention to apply for this position.