Graphic Designer

The Role: Graphic Designer

The Location: Milton Keynes

The Salary: £30,000 – £36,000plus bens

This is an exciting opportunity for a Graphic Designer with a passion for design and presentation. My client is a leading independent consultancy providing technical research and consultancy to the global automotive industry. Established for almost 20 years, they have been working with some of the biggest global automotive brands including Audi, Jaguar Land Rover, Honda, Lexus, Toyota and many more. With their UK H/O in Milton Keynes and offices recently opened in North America and India and their established sister company in Japan, they are set on an exciting path of growth and expansion.

The Role

You will play a key role in the delivery of high quality reports, industry newsletters, presentation materials and other customer documents.

Key responsibilities will include:

Preparing high quality accurate, infographics, charts and illustrations which are integral to their market data and technical reports, newsletter bulletins, whitepapers and presentations
Communicating with technical report authors across the business, including other client locations, to ensure designs/graphics are clearly presented, user friendly and consistent with the client’s corporate style and format
Establishing templates to ensure a consistent approach across the Companies offices worldwide
Providing creative input for design and layout and demonstrating ideas through story-boarding, sketches and mock upsVideo editing (previous experience is desirable but not essential)
Working from a detailed brief to create PowerPoint presentations delivered to clients by their Technical and Sales teams
Meeting deadlines for multiple projects each with differing graphical content and timescales
Working beside other talented professionals you will be part of a results-focussed, collaborative and friendly team. Together they make a difference to their clients as a world-leading knowledge partner to the automotive industry, providing actionable insight and strategic support in the development or more connected, secure and safe vehicles.

The Ideal Person Profile

The following qualities and experience will have been gained through at least 12 months in a Design role:

Key software skills:
Adobe Creative Suite/Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, acrobat, In-Design)

Microsoft Office to an advanced formatting level (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Basic Knowledge of HTML and CSS

Creative and enthusiastic with previous work experience of B2B graphic design
Exceptional attention to detail
An adaptable and well organised approach, with ability to manage a busy workload with several projects running simultaneously
Confident verbal communication with the ability to build rapport and inspire confidence with staff across all levels

Required skills

Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Photoshop Graphic Design Microsoft Office PowerPoint