Senior Designer
Hymans Robertson
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Job summary
Hymans Robertson in Glasgow is seeking an experienced Senior Designer to join our in-house Design team. You will help develop engaging content across marketing campaigns, brand communications, publications, digital content, events, social media, video, animation and web experiences, while upholding brand standards.
As a senior team member, you will mentor a Graphic Designer, coordinate marketing-led and firmwide design work, and collaborate with Marketing and stakeholders to deliver high-quality
Qualifications
- Significant experience using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Strong animation and motion design skills using Adobe After Effects, with experience of Adobe Premiere Pro being advantageous.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating creative excellence across both print and digital channels.
- Confidence managing multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work independently while contributing positively as part of a collaborative team.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- The ability to interpret complex information and transform it into clear, engaging and visually compelling content.
- A creative mindset with the confidence to challenge conventional thinking and find innovative ways to communicate messages.
- A positive, proactive and adaptable approach, with a genuine enthusiasm for continuous learning and development.
- Experience using Readymag or similar web-building platforms would be advantageous, as would familiarity with Flourish.
- Experience capturing video content at events would be welcomed but is not essential.
- Experience working within a professional services, consultancy or corporate environment would be beneficial.
Responsibilities
- Applying high-quality design across campaigns and firmwide assets, creating audience-focused content while preserving the Hymans Robertson brand.
- Coordinating requests for Marketing-led and Firmwide design work, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and to a high standard.
- Creating publications, presentations, campaign materials, digital content, social media graphics, video and web content.
- Developing and maintaining templates across Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft applications, including Word and PowerPoint.
- Producing graphics, infographics and motion assets that help communicate complex information clearly.
- Building strong relationships with Marketing colleagues and stakeholders across the firm, managing expectations and timelines.
- Supporting the delivery of creative campaigns and driving innovative approaches that help our brand stand out.
- Providing day-to-day mentoring, guidance and feedback to another Graphic Designer, supporting their development and helping coordinate workloads.
- Upholding brand guidelines and ensuring consistency across all visual communications.
- Liaising with external print and production suppliers where required.
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Job description
We\'re looking for an experienced and creative
We\'re looking for an experienced and creative Senior Designer to join our talented in-house Design team based in Glasgow.
As owners of the Hymans Robertson visual brand, our Design team develops and delivers engaging creative content across the business, including marketing campaigns, brand communications, publications, digital content, events, social media, video, animation and web experiences.
This is an exciting opportunity for a designer who enjoys combining creativity with collaboration. Working closely with our Marketing team and stakeholders across the firm, you\'ll help create high-quality, audience-focused content that brings our brand to life and supports our business objectives.
As a senior member of the team, you\'ll also provide day-to-day guidance and mentoring to another Graphic Designer, helping coordinate Marketing-led work and Firmwide assets while supporting their development and maintaining high creative standards.
With a range of exciting projects in the pipeline, this role offers the opportunity to influence how our brand evolves while continuing to develop your own career in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
Working as part of our in-house Design team, you\'ll collaborate with colleagues across Marketing and the wider business to create engaging and impactful visual communications across a variety of channels and formats.
- Applying high-quality design across Marketing-led campaigns and Firmwide assets, creating audience-focused, clear and engaging content while maintaining the integrity of the Hymans Robertson brand.
- Coordinating requests for Marketing-led and Firmwide design work, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and to a high standard.
- Creating publications, presentations, campaign materials, digital content, social media graphics, video, animation and web content.
- Developing and maintaining templates across Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft applications, including Word and PowerPoint.
- Producing graphics, infographics and motion assets that help communicate complex information in a clear and compelling way.
- Building strong relationships with Marketing colleagues and stakeholders across the firm, managing expectations and timelines to deliver successful outcomes.
- Supporting the delivery of creative campaigns and driving innovative approaches that help our brand stand out.
- Providing day-to-day mentoring, guidance and feedback to another Graphic Designer, supporting their development and helping coordinate workloads.
- Upholding brand guidelines and ensuring consistency across all visual communications.
- Liaising with external print and production suppliers where required.
- Significant experience using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Strong animation and motion design skills using Adobe After Effects, with experience of Adobe Premiere Pro being advantageous.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating creative excellence across both print and digital channels.
- Confidence managing multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work independently while contributing positively as part of a collaborative team.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- The ability to interpret complex information and transform it into clear, engaging and visually compelling content.
- A creative mindset with the confidence to challenge conventional thinking and find innovative ways to communicate messages.
- A positive, proactive and adaptable approach, with a genuine enthusiasm for continuous learning and development.
- Experience using Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint, would be beneficial.
- Experience with Readymag or similar web-building platforms would be advantageous, as would familiarity with Flourish.
- Experience capturing video content at events would be welcomed but is not essential.
- Experience working within a professional services, consultancy or corporate environment would be beneficial.
As part of your application, we\'d love to see examples of your work. We\'d particularly appreciate it if you could include at least one example showcasing your motion design or animation capabilities within your portfolio.
- A flexible selection of employee benefits, so you can choose a package that best matches your lifestyle and needs.
- A collaborative and encouraging work environment where your thinking and ideas are encouraged.
- On site mental health and wellbeing assistance.
- A commitment to helping you develop both personally and professionally, with mentoring opportunities and access to our award-winning learning portal, Aspire.
- Regular social activities, in addition to three days paid volunteering leave each year and a day\'s leave to celebrate your birthday.
- Hybrid working so you can enjoy the positive wellbeing of working from home as well as the benefits of meeting colleagues in our sociable, modern office environments – with the expectation of two ‘in-office’ days per week.
- A flexible working window, allowing colleagues the freedom to work flexibly between the hours of 7am and 7pm.
Please note, we recruit on a rolling basis so early applications are recommended to avoid disappointment.
Together, we\'ve been building better futures for over 100 years. For our people, our clients and their people, our communities and the environment.
We thrive on tackling complex problems. And we believe those problems are best solved by diverse teams – diverse in skills, approaches and backgrounds. Our independence lets our people be themselves and think freely, while working in a collaborative, supportive environment. We love innovative, independent thinking and want everyone to share their ideas.
Working alongside employers, trustees and financial services institutions, we offer pensions, investments, benefits and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions. With over 1000 employees and counting, we\'re one of the leading consultancies in our field and are proud to be recognised by numerous industry awards.
We\'re committed to developing our people and encourage everyone to carve out their own career path. We\'ve many colleagues who started out in one team in the business and have ended up somewhere completely different, having had the chance to develop new skills and explore new passions.
We are continually working to improve our inclusive culture and employ diverse talent. We therefore welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, which includes but isn\'t limited to: age, disability, ethnic heritage, gender, marital or civil partnership status, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.
Our hybrid working model offers the best of both worlds – home working as well as a fun, collaborative office environment - meaning flexible working patterns to accommodate individual needs. Find out more about our careers here.
If you need any assistance in relation to a personal requirement, medical condition or neurological difference during our selection process then please let us know.
Together, we can make this the best job you\'ll ever have.
We live and breathe our four values – friendly, confident, partnering and straightforward – and genuinely care about out people, clients, community and the environment.
Every employee can genuinely make a difference and contribute towards achieving our purpose – together, building better futures. Whether that\’s helping our clients build more secure financial futures, using your 3 days volunteering or helping us reduce our carbon footprint.
We offer competitive salaries, a share of company profits and an award-winning benefits package. We also take your mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing seriously, both in and outside of work.
We trust our people to work in a pattern that suits their circumstances with a healthy balance of home and office working.
We use the most up-to-date technology and software to match our ground-breaking business solutions that make life easier for us and our clients.
There is no linear path – learning opportunities are plentiful and empower you to carve out your own career.
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