Visual Designer

Gallagher UK; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a creative Visual Designer to join their Global Digital Team. This exciting role focuses on crafting compelling visual stories that translate complex data into engaging designs. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to produce high-quality visuals, animations, and presentations that enhance client understanding of digital products. With a strong emphasis on brand consistency and innovative design practices, this position offers a unique opportunity to influence how clients interact with cutting-edge solutions. If you are passionate about visual storytelling and thrive in dynamic environments, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Minimum of 25 days holiday

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance

Health cash plan

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Discounted gym membership

Season ticket loan

Emergency back-up family care

Volunteering days

Access to discounted voucher portal

Qualifications

• Proven experience in visual design with a strong portfolio.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce visually stunning content for digital and print media.
• Collaborate with teams to maintain visual consistency across all outputs.

Skills

Visual Storytelling

Data Visualisation

Graphic Design

Communication Skills

Attention to Detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design

Equivalent experience in Visual Arts

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Sketch

After Effects

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Introduction

Join us at Gallagher Re, the trailblazers of the reinsurance world, where every day brings new opportunities to shape the future. We empower our clients with cutting-edge analytics and insights, providing them the confidence to make strategic decisions that transform industries. As a team member, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, translating data into impactful solutions and taking the reins of your career like never before.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

About the Role

We are seeking a talented Visual Designer to join our Global Digital Team, working within the Global Visualisation Centre of Excellence. This role focuses on designing and building high-quality visualisation products that transform complex data into compelling, client-facing visual stories. The ideal candidate is passionate about visual storytelling, data visualisation, and creating impactful designs.

As a subject matter expert, you will collaborate closely with the Global Head of Visualisation and cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Brand, and Communications, to produce best-in-class, on-brand visuals, animations, presentations, and other ad-hoc materials. Your work will directly influence how global clients understand and interact with our digital products, making Gallagher Re’s offering more accessible, actionable, and visually compelling.

About You

You are a creative and detail-oriented Visual Designer with a passion for crafting visually stunning and impactful designs. You excel at translating complex ideas and data into clear, engaging visual stories that resonate with diverse audiences, including C-suite clients. With a strong foundation in design principles and a keen eye for aesthetics, you thrive in collaborative environments and are adept at delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines. Your ability to balance creativity with brand consistency makes you a key contributor to innovative, client-focused solutions.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Design and produce visually stunning content, including presentations, infographics, animations, and marketing materials for digital and print media.
• Lead the visual design of digital products, ensuring alignment with Gallagher Re’s brand and design system.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Brand, and Communications teams to maintain visual consistency across all outputs.
• Extend global brand guidelines to incorporate data visualisation best practices while ensuring brand compliance.
• Create high-quality graphics, illustrations, and layouts that adhere to a cohesive visual identity.
• Stay ahead of design trends, tools, and technologies to deliver innovative solutions.
• Work with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable visual solutions, iterating based on feedback and user testing.
• Integrate user experience design into product development for seamless, customer-centric solutions.
• Champion inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines (e.g., WCAG), mentoring junior members of the team and fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion.
• Leverage expertise in data visualisation to communicate complex insights clearly.

Requirements

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Data Visualisation, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven professional experience in visual design or a similar role, with a strong portfolio showcasing data visualisation and design projects.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Figma, or Sketch.
• Excellent understanding of typography, colour theory, layout principles, and data visualisation best practices.
• Experience with branding and creating visual identities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Exceptional communication skills and meticulous attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities & Skills

• Experience with motion graphics or animation (e.g., After Effects).
• Knowledge of UX/UI design principles.
• Familiarity with web development basics (HTML/CSS).
• Experience in insurance, financial services, or related industries.
• Experience with data visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau, Flourish, D3.js, or Python libraries e.g., Matplotlib, Seaborn).
• Expertise in cartography and map design.

Compensation And Benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other Benefits Include

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [e-mail]. If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.