Location: Hybrid Working | Business Area: Brand & Communications | Salary: £22k–25k dependent on experience
Chess are currently recruiting for Junior Graphic Designer to join their growing Brand & Communications Team, primarily home based with regular meet ups in our Alderley Edge office. This is a fantastic opportunity for a recent graduate or Junior Designer to gain experience in a fast paced Marketing environment.
Working with the Head of Brand and Communication & other members of the Brand and Marketing teams, you’ll be designing visual assets for a variety of consumer, brand and B2B marketing campaigns. You’ll have a passion for incredible design and typography and superb attention to detail.
“a great place to work, a great place to be a customer”
The Role:
- Create visually stunning and typographically rich designs that fulfil design solution
- Work under established design templates and frameworks to meet branding guideline standards and to deliver to short deadlines.
- Maintain and defend Chess design standards by being a brand guardian.
- Liaise with various teams across the business, including sales and marketing teams as well as external agencies/suppliers to ensure project requests are delivered within a timely and efficient manner
- Support the planning of customer marketing activities across all channels.
- Contribute to the creation of marketing collateral; ensuring that content is focused on the challenges our customers face and how Chess can help solve them.
- To provide team and wider business with up to date information on industry trends, design developments and improvements to creative tools.
The Candidate:
- You’ll need to be confident in your ability to work to tight deadlines, and to deliver our signature brand of high quality, eye catching and attractive design, day in, day out.
- An outstanding portfolio demonstrating design and layout abilities, concepting and ideation.
- A ‘can do’ attitude to new challenges and taking ownership of requests.
- Excellent organisational skills, and the ability to work under your own initiative.
- Ability to work well as part of a remote team with a focus on collaboration and sharing of ideas.
- Excellent knowledge of the principles of graphic design, typography, and demonstrable experience of practising from conception to execution.
- Excellent Knowledge of Adobe Creative suite including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat for digital and print.
- Knowledge of printing process and standards.
- Knowledge of HTML and web design language/UX.
- Ability to articulate and defend your design choices providing specific and high-level feedback to team members all the way to board level.
- A strong attention to detail. You’ll notice the little things, like odd spacing, colours that don't match and typos.
Desirable Skills:
- Adobe Premier Pro
- Adobe After Effects
- Motion Graphic/Animation principles
- Photography/Videography
- Figma
Please note: All applications must be accompanied with a link to a digital portfolio or examples of work, to be considered for this role.
Package Details
Salary details: £22k–25k dependent on experience
Benefits include:
- Health care support – UK Healthcare, eye tests, flu jabs, onsite health screens.
- Enhanced Pay: Maternity, Paternity, Adoption Leave and Shared Parental Leave.
- Access to employee benefits, rewards and recognition platform, Perkbox. This gives you access to hundreds of ‘Perks’ with great discounts. Whether it be days out, your weekly food shop, a clothes shopping spree on the high street and many more.
- Hybrid working support - Allowance towards a home desk and chair.
- Loyalty point scheme – allowing you to use your points to increase your benefits each year.
- Access to our Future Fit benefits package – including Mental, Physical and Financial support.
- 20 days paid holiday p.a. increased upon anniversaries, ultimately to 24 days p.a., plus public holidays.
- Buy & sell Holiday scheme – 2 opportunities per year to buy or sell up to 5 holidays.
- Additional holidays: Half Day Fridays and a Wellbeing Day.
- £100 per year matched charity donation, plus payroll giving options.
Hours: A standard week is 37½ Monday to Friday
Allowing you to enjoy the flexibility of working from home whilst also having the option to
work from one of our many local hubs spread throughout the UK. Ad-hoc travel to offices
within the group and other locations may be required on occasion.
Working location: Hybrid working position
Allowing you to enjoy the flexibility of working from home whilst also having the option to work from one of our many local hubs spread throughout the UK. Ad-hoc travel to offices within the group and other locations may be required on occasion.
Why join Chess?
Chess is one of the UK's leading independent and trusted technology service providers, employing over 250 skilled people across the UK, supporting over 21,000 UK businesses.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion is at the heart of our Chess culture, and we are passionate about our One Team spirit.
We are extremely proud that our people voted us No.1 in 'The 100 Best Companies to Work for' list 2018, and we continue to celebrate more than fourteen years in the top 100.
Our continued focus on growth creates opportunity for everyone to progress their career, to develop knowledge and skills, to gain reward and recognition and to maximise their potential. The growth and success of our people ensures the growth and success of our business.
We believe that “if you’re not growing, we’re not growing”.
Is Chess the place for you?
If you are looking for a career that brings exciting challenges and opportunities, then Chess is the place for you.
Please email your CV and covering letter to our Recruitment Department at: recruitment@chessict.co.uk.
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