Senior Smart Presentation Designer

Senior Smart-Pres Designer

Salary: Up to £38,000 per annum

Location: 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HP

Contract: Permanent, full time

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Shifts: 8-hour shifts worked Monday through Friday between the hours of 08:00-18:00

Break: 30-minute lunch, unpaid

Format: Hybrid; 2 days worked onsite versus 3 from home

Williams Lea seeks a Senior Creative Smart-Pres Designer to join our team!

Williams Lea seeks a Senior Smart-Pres Designer to work onsite at a leading Banking establishment in London.

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, who 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 the Role

As Senior Creative Smart-Pres Designer, you will be working as part of the Presentations Team producing 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 team to ensure the production of high-quality designs with a final output as PowerPoint. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Be pro-active and give an outstanding finished product creating 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

• Formally design trained with a relevant qualification in graphic design
• An excellent knowledge and experience of creating great layouts and design of infographics
• Knowledge of print, digital/moving image design
• 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
• Advance knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
• Skill in animation/motion graphics would be beneficial
• Video editing using Adobe suite would be beneficial

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(pro-rata for part time or fixed term roles)
• 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 have the opportunity to work for a global employer who is dedicated to offering each and every 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] (we do not accept applications to this email address).