Designer

Informa Festivals marks an exciting new chapter in B2B events, bringing some of the world's most influential creative, technology, and business festivals together. We’re combining prestigious events like Cannes Lions, Black Hat, Money20/20, GDC, and London Tech Week with cutting-edge marketing intelligence platforms and advisory services to deliver unmissable experiences and insights.

Our festival-led approach reimagines traditional B2B events, creating powerful, immersive experiences that drive innovation and industry advancement. Building on decades of expertise and powered by Informa's international reach, we're shaping the next generation of business festivals.

This role is based in our 5 Howick Place office 

Contagious, part of the LIONS Division, is a creative and strategic intelligence firm that supercharges marketing for agencies and brands. Through our IQ intelligence platform, consulting services, training and events, we inspire and enable marketers to deliver brave, effective and contagious creativity. Find out more at contagious.com.

The Role

As Designer at Contagious, you'll be the creative force behind our visual communications, collaborating with our Creative Services team to deliver exceptional design across our Intelligence, Advisory, Events and Learning products. Working across both Contagious brands and the wider LIONS division, you'll need proven professional design experience and the ability to balance creative innovation with strategic thinking.

Your sharp eye for detail and strong sense of craft will help us produce materials that demand attention, convey clear messages, and strengthen the Contagious brand. You'll translate creative strategy into compelling communications with originality, clarity and consistency.

What You'll Do

• Create engaging visual designs across digital and print that maintain brand consistency while pushing creative boundaries
• Transform complex ideas into simple, striking visuals with strong conceptual foundations
• Lead design projects from creative brief through to final delivery, managing stakeholder feedback and revisions
• Provide creative input during campaign planning, shaping ideas from a design perspective
• Collaborate across departments to fulfil design needs throughout Contagious and the wider LIONS Division
• Present multiple design routes with confident rationale
• Prepare final assets correctly for production across channels
• Design marketing collateral including emails, social media assets, and event materials
• Support Content, Advisory and Sales teams with high-quality presentations and branded materials
• Champion inclusive, representative design reflecting diverse perspectives

What You'll Bring

• Previous experience in a professional design role in agency, in-house, or consultancy environments with a proven track record of delivering design solutions for marketing communications and brand materials
• Mastery of design fundamentals including typography hierarchy, grid systems, colour theory, visual composition, and layout principles across digital and print applications
• Technical proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects), PowerPoint, and Figma
• Portfolio demonstrating professional work from concept to execution across digital campaigns, print materials, and presentations, showing ability to work within brand guidelines while maintaining creative excellence
• Excellent organisation and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and present ideas with confidence
• Current knowledge of design trends and the wider creative industry
• Commitment to inclusive, representative design

Even if you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We're committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at an Informa event – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Here’s some of what you can expect when you join us. But don’t just take our word for it – see what our colleagues have to say LifeAt.Informa.com

Our benefits include:

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.

At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.

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