Mid/Senior Designer 6M FTC

Role: Designer

Location: London, United Kingdom

About the role:

We are recruiting for x2 mid-to-senior level integrated designers (3–7+ years experience) to join our client’s team, working directly within their Group Brand studio team. The client is in the Financial Services sector and is one of the most recognisable UK brands in the UK. The studio delivers high-quality, brand-aligned creative across sponsorship and partnership programmes, brand initiatives, and always-on output, working closely with internal stakeholders and external partners across multiple concurrent workstreams.

These are two roles available on a six-month fixed-term contract basis — one focused on Sponsorship and Partnership design, the other on Group Brand work. Both sit within an established in-house team and operate at the intersection of strong design craft and operational discipline. You'll balance rapid turnarounds with considered creative development, and manage the full cycle from concept through to production-ready artwork.

Based in London, both roles are hybrid with three fixed anchor days in the client's offices each week (currently Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday). These days may change within the contract period, and attendance at other locations or on additional days may occasionally be required.

We support flexible working and are open to different arrangements. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Sponsorship and Partnerships Designer:
You'll create and adapt design solutions across [client]'s sponsorship and partnership portfolio — delivering assets that support sponsorship storytelling, maximise partnership rights utilisation, and meet the requirements of a wide range of channels, formats, and third-party partners.

Group Brand Designer:
You'll support core brand expression work and asset creation aligned to ongoing campaigns and platform needs — primarily always-on brand activity and priority initiatives. This is centrally-driven brand output rather than campaign-specific creative ownership.

Both roles are primarily execution-focused, with approximately 70–80% of time spent adapting, versioning, and producing existing assets for different partners, channels, or market requirements, and 20–30% developing new creative concepts and visual solutions. Output is predominantly digital-first, with some print and occasional environmental and experiential work depending on project needs. There is no line management responsibility in either role.

In both roles, you'll operate with clear autonomy on day-to-day design decisions within established brand and sponsorship frameworks — delivering to a varied and concurrent project load that spans rapid same-day turnarounds through to multi-week creative development. You'll manage feedback cycles professionally, uphold the client's Visual Identity across every output, and contribute actively to the team's ways of working.

Success looks like consistently high-quality, brand-compliant creative delivered at pace, strong working relationships across a complex stakeholder network, and a measurable contribution to the team's efficiency and standards.

What you will be doing:

• Design & creative execution:
• Creating high-quality design solutions across digital, social, environmental graphics, OOH, presentations, print and experiential sponsorship materials
• Developing visual concepts that support sponsorship storytelling and brand-building objectives
• Ensuring all creative adheres to the brand Visual Identity and accessibility standards
• Proactively suggesting alternative approaches to enhance creative impact
• Artworking& production:
• Delivering production-ready artwork across various formats, ensuring accurate specifications for print, digital and physical installations
• Adapting and versioning assets for partners, channels or market requirements
• Maintaining structured file management, version control and asset governance
• Working with precision across multiple concurrent projects with varying turnaround times (hours–days for amends; days–weeks for new development)
• Stakeholder partnership & project delivery:
• Working closely with your colleagues in the Sponsorship Partnerships and Group Brand teams to develop creative solutions that maximise rights utilisation
• Managing feedback cycles, timelines and approvals with clarity and professionalism
• Developing strong working relationships with third-party suppliers and agencies to create efficiencies
• Building trusted relationships with Brand Management, Corporate Communications and PPCR colleagues
• Cross-functional collaboration:
• Driving the collaborative culture of the Group Creative Services team to deliver integrated outputs
• Liaising with external agencies, rights holders and production vendors to ensure consistent brand execution
• Supporting the development and continuous improvement of sponsorship design workflows, templates and guidelines
• Contributing proactively to team improvements and efficiency gains
• Decision-making & autonomy:
• Operating with autonomy on day-to-day design decisions within established brand and sponsorship frameworks
• Escalating risks, complex stakeholder issues or creative conflicts appropriately
• Taking accountability for quality, accuracy and brand compliance of all creative outputs

What you need to be great in this role:

• 3–7+ years' experience as a brand or marketing designer in an agency or in-house setting
• Strong brand design experience across multi-channel creative—financial services experience is not essential, provided you can quickly adapt to brand guidelines and governance standards
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro)
• Solid design fundamentals: typography, colour theory, layout, visual hierarchy and composition
• Experience preparing final artwork and delivering to precise technical specifications
• Strong craft in managing multiple concurrent projects with excellent organisational discipline
• Excellent communication and confident day-to-day stakeholder engagement
• Experience working collaboratively within established brand guidelines and responding to shifting priorities
• Ability to work with pace and precision under tight deadlines
• Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems
• CMS experience or familiarity with how brand assets are distributed digitally
• Experience designing sponsorship assets or working with sports/entertainment partnerships
• Motion graphics or animation capability
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools
• Experience working alongside film/photography teams or experiential environments
• Proactive mindset: although the roles ae primarily brief-led rather than concept-led, we still value proactivity, especially when it comes to identifying improvements and efficiencies
• Collaborative approach: works positively within a fast-paced, delivery-focused team culture across Brand, Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility
• Strong communication skills: you’ll need to have clear, effective day-to-day collaboration with a variety of stakeholders and team members
• Great attention to detail: meticulous approach to file management, version control and brand compliance
• Flexible: able to move seamlessly between execution-focused brief work and strategic creative input and also able to pivot to accommodate changing priorities
• Organised : manages priorities effectively, maintains strong project discipline and meets varying deadlines with consistency

Req ID: 17656
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