Presentations Designer

Presentation Specialist

Salary: £40,000 per annum, plus company benefits

Location: Canary Wharf, London E14 5HP

Contract: Permanent, full time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Shifts: 8-hour shifts worked Monday-Friday. Core working hours are between 08.00 and 18.00.

Work outside these core hours may be required.

Break details: 30-minute lunch, unpaid

Work model: Hybrid; at least 2 days worked in office, 3 days worked from home. This is subject to change, please only apply if you are prepared to work fully onsite.    

Williams Lea seek a Presentation Specialist to join our team!

Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled, technology-enabled, business-critical support services, with long-term trusted relationships with blue-chip clients across investment banks, law firms and professional services firms.

Williams Lea employees, nearly 7000 people worldwide provide efficient business services at client sites in often complex and highly regulated environments, from centralised Williams Lea onshore facilities, and through best cost company offshore locations. 

Purpose of this Role:

As a Presentation Specialist, you will be working as part of the Presentations Team and in close collaboration with Creative Services on the Barclays account based in Canary Wharf, London. Our Presentations team produce high level creative interactive multimedia presentations as well as standardised Brand collateral.

This role requires a strong individual to work closely with clients and the global WLT team to ensure the production of high-quality designs with a final output as PowerPoint. You will be responsible for professionally representing the department and supporting the design and presentations team deliver exceptional work. You will provide support of concept development, collaborate with design colleagues, presentations operators, workflow, and stakeholders to identify and assess briefs to provide design solutions as part of the creative process.

You must have an understanding and passion for taking content and representing this content in an impactful and engaging way. The key to the role is the delivery of innovative and creative content execution across media with a consistent look and feel. You must have a “can-do” attitude, be willing to put forward ideas and have a keen eye for detail, making sure that all work sent out is to the highest quality creative standard and within brand guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Be pro-active and give the client an outstanding finished product with respect to creative multi-media presentations and working in compliance with brand guidelines
• Think creatively to produce innovative ideas and concepts whilst working with the Global Creative Director
• Quality checking and accuracy
• Bring forward-thinking ideas to the team, maintain awareness of ‘state of the art’ techniques, best practices, and developments within the design community
• Creation of engaging infographics
• Experience working with design principles of animation and moving image
• Ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
• To support the business to manage and deliver Client work right first time on time
• To always liaise with the client in a professional and helpful manner, proactively managing their expectations
• Using design experience and knowledge to provide, technical and creative guidance and support to customers
• To build a professional rapport with clients and always deliver excellent customer service, considering
  key client's needs
• Support the workflow team to estimate accurately
• Taking a pro-active approach to project and time management
• Ensuring adherence to all departmental, company and client policies and procedures
• Admin - ensure activity is recorded using the designated company tools

Knowledge and Skills

We require an extremely organised and dedicated individual with strong communications skills, and good knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite. Print, digital/moving image design along with advanced skills working within Microsoft Office Suite.

You will strive to achieve client satisfaction in all you do, as a key member of the Studio your colleagues will support and help develop you wherever possible. You will return the same sharing culture with your fellow colleagues and the business.

Essential core skills required:

• An excellent knowledge and experience of creating great layouts and design of infographics
• Confidence to present and explain ideas to clients and colleagues
• The ability to balance work on several projects at a time
• Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail
• Calm and mature personality with the ability to work both on own initiative and in a team environment, often under pressure and to strict deadlines
• Professional, confident, and enthusiastic team player
• Excellent communication and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise an often-conflicting workload
• Good understanding of Adobe Creative Suite
• Advanced skills in PowerPoint
• Good working knowledge of MS Office apps such as Word and Excel
• Skill in animation/motion graphics would be an added advantage

Rewards and Benefits

We believe in supporting our employees in both their professional and personal lives. As part of our commitment to your well-being, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Salary sacrifice schemes, retail vouchers – including our TechScheme which can be used on a range of gadgets such as Smart TV’s, laptops and computers or household appliances
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Health Assessments
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Discounted gym memberships
• Referral Scheme

You will also work for a global employer who is dedicated to offering each employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects!

Equality and Diversity

The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (each of these being a “protected characteristic” in discrimination law). It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values openness, fairness, and transparency.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like to make a reasonable adjustment to enable you to make an interview, please contact us at [email protected].

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