Senior Design Executive | London, UK

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We've been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Asset Management is one of Europe's largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us - from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers - which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions - and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market-leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

Job Description

We are looking for a creative and dynamic Senior Design Executive to play a key part in the internal creative agency within L&G's Asset Management business. This will be a 12 month fixed term contract.

You will be working closely with the Head of Design and supporting with the creation of marketing materials for all kinds of various print and digital formats. This includes marketing literature, advertising, assets for online and in-person events, social media, video editing, and animation. You will play a lead role as brand champion for design across L&G, ensuring that the brand visual identity is applied consistently and effectively.

What you'll be doing:

• Designing and updating marketing materials for various print and digital formats, including marketing literature, advertising, assets for online and in-person events, social media, video editing, and animation
• Helping to apply, monitor, and promote the brand across all communications created
• Contributing to the ongoing development of L&G's visual identity
• Supporting the Head of Design on larger projects
• Regularly checking L&G's social media channels and ensuring the visual identity is consistent
• Building, maintaining, and promoting positive, collaborative, and close working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Acting as the first line of defence to ensure that materials comply with current regulations, particularly ensuring that all designed items are clear, fair, not misleading, and adhere to brand guidelines
• Liaising with agency partners, printers, and suppliers where required to produce and print materials
• Bringing your design knowledge, ideas, and creativity to briefs, and improving and making suggestions where you can add additional value as a designer

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

• Fully proficient in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Acrobat
• Ability to create HTML5 animated advertising banners
• Strong understanding of the print and digital production process
• Able to work on own initiative and equally able to take verbal direction
• Ability to manage tight deadlines and work on several projects at a time
• A strong understanding of brand guidelines
• Comfortable in reworking a core creative into a variety of multi-media solutions
• Comfortable with following brand guidance, but when appropriate, seizes the opportunity to improve or apply new creative executions based on brand guidance

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

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