Graphics and Marketing Assistant

BPTW Architects; Greater London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

BPTW Architects is seeking a motivated Graphics and Marketing Assistant to join their Business Development and Marketing team. This role involves creating engaging graphics for various purposes including digital and print media, supporting team efforts in marketing strategies, and ensuring brand consistency. The successful candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment where creativity and teamwork are vital, contributing to a wide range of projects while honing their design skills in an award-winning architectural practice.

Benefits

24/7 Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Cashback on Healthcare costs

Free financial advice

Insurance cover including Life Assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Annual salary reviews

Qualifications

• Experience with design software like InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator is essential.
• Strong graphic design skills required to create engaging materials.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to engage with various teams are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Create and update marketing materials, including brochures and social media content.
• Coordinate marketing activities across teams and support event planning.
• Ensure all outputs adhere to brand guidelines and quality standards.

Skills

Organisational skills

Creative graphic design

Attention to detail

Proofreading and copywriting

Adaptability in design

Tools

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

MS Office

Adobe Premiere Pro

Mailchimp

WordPress

Job description

BPTW are looking for a highly motivated and creative Graphics and Marketing Assistant to join our Business Development and Marketing team. The role involves responsibility for a wide range of graphics work relating to business development, bid submissions and marketing.

Who we are

BPTW is an award-winning architectural and urban design practice specialising in residential-led development and mixed-use regeneration projects. Working alongside leading developers, housing associations, local authorities and private clients, our philosophy is centred on creating homes and places that transform people’s lives.

We offer an open, collaborative, and interactive working environment, which promotes the sharing of ideas and enables creativity to flourish. Teamwork is important to us, and our office culture aspires to engender inclusivity at all levels. Our workplace gender balance, recognition as one of the most diverse UK architecture studios by the AJ100, and multiple industry awards for our employment practices, reflect the benefits of our studio culture.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer with a wheelchair accessible studio and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and creative Graphics and Marketing Assistant to join a dynamic Business Development and Marketing team working from our design studio in Greenwich.

In this role you will have responsibility for creating engaging graphics for digital and print media, including social media, website, brochures, and video content, for both internal and external communications. You will be expected to generate new ideas, contribute to design solutions, and ensure quality and consistency of output.

This is a varied role with plenty of scope to try different things. You will be an integral member of the team working closely with the Business Development & Marketing Coordinator and as well as providing graphic support, you will be maintaining and developing the BPTW brand.

The successful candidate will be working with different teams across the practice, including those focusing on architectural design and business development. Therefore, confident communication and enthusiasm for teamwork is a must, as well as a keen eye for detail, design and layout. You will need the ability to manage multiple tasks and deliver to competing deadlines.

Core Responsibilities

Include:

• Updating and creating portfolios, brochures, and presentations.
• Producing documents including fee proposals, CVs, and project sheets.
• Creation of new graphic material for the practice, as required.
• Creating and updating material for website, internal comms, and social media.
• Ensure documents produced follow brand guidelines, standard formatting, and quality standards.
• Support awards submissions.
• Assisting event planning and creating events materials.
• Preparing email newsletters.
• Photography and image editing.
• Regularly monitoring department inboxes and accurately logging information.
• Maintaining records of information for bids.
• Keeping track of company memberships and staff qualifications.
• Supporting social activities within the studio.

In addition, you will also be expected to:

• Coordinate input to marketing activities from teams across the practice.
• Develop text and/or documents drafted by others into the required format.
• Use our filing structure to maintain and backup draft information and completed documents.
• Work across teams on photography and organising professional images.

Qualifications/Skills

• Strong organisational skills.
• Critical visual eye with an ability to understand and appreciate architectural images and material.
• Demonstrable experience of using InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Confident and adept with MS Office, particularly PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• Ability to create and develop templates for documents including bids and presentations.
• Experience with print and digital design processes.
• Strong creative graphic design skills with the ability to design new graphic materials, as well as develop and communicate graphic styles.
• Ability to interpret and work within existing brand guidelines and graphic processes, to ensure output is ‘on brand’.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English with proofreading and copywriting skills.
• Keen interest in the built environment.
• Experience using WordPress / managing Websites / using Mailchimp.
• Knowledge of video editing software such as Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects.
• Experience in creating engaging social media content.
• Knowledge of graphic design principles and techniques.
• Ability to tailor content and messaging to different audiences.
• Experience with print and digital graphic design.
• Able to manage and contribute to illustrations including infographics and libraries.
• Familiar with Open Asset (or similar) Digital Asset Management platform to create high-quality proposals.
• Able to liaise with external print and digital suppliers and consultants.
• Experience creating and delivering branded goods and stationery.

Personal Attributes

• Able to work with initiative and unsupervised.
• Able to take verbal briefs and deliver creative outputs.
• Ability to work with and across teams and work well within a team environment.
• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.
• Works to strict deadlines and can manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Comfortable communicating with senior members of staff and sharing knowledge across the practice.
• Confident communicator – to assist with new starter training and introduction to the BPTW brand, templates, graphics styles and Open Asset.

BPTW employees have access to a range of benefits, including but not limited to:

• 24/7 Access to an Employee Assistance Programme & GP Helpline
• Cashback on Healthcare costs
• Free financial advice
• Insurance cover (Life Assurance; Critical Illness; Income protection)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Annual salary reviews

Salary of between £27,500 and £30,000. Depending on experience.

Apply

Please submit a copy of your CV along with a cover letter with the title ‘Graphics and Marketing Assistant’.

Your cover letter should explain why you want to work with us and how you meet the essential criteria. You can also include details on any other experience or knowledge you feel is relevant to the role.

Please note we are currently unable to support applications that require current or future employment visa sponsorship.

Please clearly state your right to work in the UK on your application.