Senior Graphic Designer

Miller’s Recruitment; Ovingdean; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail support company in Bury is seeking a Senior Graphic Designer. You will lead creative projects across various platforms, utilizing your expertise in Adobe Creative Suite. The ideal candidate has 5-7 years of design experience and a strong portfolio. Join a vibrant team in a dynamic environment focused on innovation and collaboration.

Benefits

Job specific uniform and tooling

Company pension

Holiday entitlement of 32 days per year

Training in accredited academy

Regular staff treats and charity events

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of commercial graphic design experience.
• A strong portfolio of diverse creative work.
• Ability to take a project from brief to final delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative direction across various projects.
• Deliver high-quality design and branding solutions.
• Create graphics for social media and corporate reports.

Skills

Creative thinking

Graphic design

Attention to detail

Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

Overview

We’re Millers Vanguard, the UK’s premier retail support company. We’re looking for a highly creative Senior Graphic Designer to join our creative team in Bury, GtrManchester.

We’re looking for a Senior Graphic Designer to bring bold ideas, pixel-perfect execution, and creative energy to our growing in-house team. While this is an in-house role, we’re building a dynamic creative environment that feels more like a design agency – fast-paced, collaborative, and full of variety.

About the Role

Working with the Creative Director / Head of Marketing you’ll lead the creative across a wide range of projects, delivering high-quality design and branding solutions that engage, inform, and inspire. From large-scale reports to vibrant social media graphics, internal presentations to event branding – no two days will be the same.

You’ll be involved in:

• Corporate reports and branded collateral
• Internal comms and staff engagement materials
• Presentations and pitch decks
• Exhibition and event graphics
• Brochures, social media content, and digital assets
• Evolving and protecting brand identity across all touchpoints
• Wayfinding and large scale internal graphics
• Social media content
• Everything from creative concepts and internal campaigns to day-to-day paperwork
• Video and photo shoot art direction
• Maglr presentations – we use the bespoke Maglr no-code, presentation software to develop interactive stories. Whilst we don’t expect experience with this unique system you will be trained up utilise it (don’t worry – it’s easy!)

About You

We’re looking for a conceptual thinker with meticulous attention to detail and a strong visual sensibility. You’re proactive, versatile, and thrive when juggling multiple projects in a creative setting.

What you’ll bring

• 5–7 years of commercial graphic design experience
• A strong portfolio of diverse creative work
• Proven expertise in Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
• Solid understanding of branding and layout principles
• Ability to take a project from brief to final delivery, solo or collaboratively
• Excellent communication and organisational skills – ability to multitask and prioritise
• A portfolio that demonstrates both creative flair and technical precision
• Experience with motion graphics is a bonus (but not essential)

Company Information

Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: –

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments: –

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development
Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• Holiday entitlement of 32 days per year
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families