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GRADUATE ASSESSMENT DAY - MONDAY 2ND JUNE 2025 - ONSITE
OVERVIEW TO COMPANY:
Our client is a fearless global marketing activation agency for brands and retailers has over 30 years of experience in the retail industry. This firms knows how to get noticed, on shelf, online and on time. They get nosy and use that insight to win shoppers and turn them into loyal customers for the client and their brand. From travel retail activations and sustainably-sourced POS, to omnichannel strategies and digital marketing they are here to make your life easier and the clients brand more famous. A retail marketing agency that makes a difference.
Graduate Training Scheme - Rotational
TITLE: Graduate Junior Designer
REPORTING TO: Creative Lead
PURPOSE:Love and thrive creating visual content? Inquisitive about the world of shopper? Able to support Senior Designers, Creative Leads and Creative Directors to realise their visions through the creation of well-designed visual content? Familiar with Adobe CS, but also not afraid of a pen and paper? Digitally savvy? Like the idea of working on some enviable accounts in a dedicated creative team?
Joining a rotation GRADUATE TRAINING scheme within the design departments is the perfect path for any graduate fascinated by creating visuals and what keeps our world turning and developing. Your choice of degree may have recognised this, or perhaps you are coming from another background, the sort that is more instinctual but your common goal is to have a career within the world of design. In any case, this opportunity will give you real-world introduction to the industry, and a chance to gain valuable knowledge and skills.
This opportunity focuses on providing hands-on training in your area of specialism, supported by industry professionals with years and years of experience to share, giving you plenty of time to learn on the job, apply your knowledge and showcase your talent.
Responsibilities
- Assisting senior designers, creative leads, and creative directors in creating visual content
- Communicating effectively and contributing to the creative process.
- Input to creative meetings and sharing ideas
- Collaborating on projects and contributing to design concepts
- Learning design software and industry trends
- Visual crafting from direction given by Seniors, Leads, & Directors
- Design brand communications for shopper / retail
- Development & adaptation of visual content across digital and print media
- Deliver graphic design & presentation projects against planned timelines and briefs
- Asset Management: Ensure logical navigation of the project assets you use, acquire, and create through digital housekeeping process
- Company Huddles
- Briefing Meetings
- Performance Reviews & Check-ins
- Seminars, Events & Training
- R&D / Industry insights sessions
Requirements (although much of this would be developed within your role)
- Degree - creative field
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Rough / loose internal sketching to map out your intended response (not for presentation)
- Knowing your way around a Mac
- Familiar with designing for Print
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Digitally savvy: Experience of creating content for web and social media
- Illustration (Vector or other medium)
- Graphic comms through Mac & Adobe CS experience
- Layout, Deck Design, Presentation Design & Typographic finesse
- Image manipulation
- Note taking - listening - effectively communicating
Nice to haves
- More proficient hand drawn skills most welcome
- Graphic animation through After Effects or 3D or motion graphics
- Experience of Ai within design
- Copy writing skills
HOURS OF WORK: 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday (Hybrid)
To start with based in the office and then progressing to 2 days in the office and 3 from home.
HOLIDAY: 28 days holiday (210 hours) plus 8 bank holidays plus your birthday off. 35 DAYS HOLIDAY A YEAR!!!
BENEFITS:
- Bonus - All employees who join prior to 1st October are eligible for the bonus scheme which pays out if the company performance targets are met.
- Client referral bonus
- EV car scheme
- Company pension scheme
- Group Life Assurance (GLA) - All employees are automatically covered by our group life assurance which pays out at four times annual salary to next of kin should an employee die during employment.
- Group Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance (PMI
- Enhanced company sick pay
- Recruitment incentive
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free eye tests
- Free flu vaccinations
- Wellbeing and counselling support
ASSESSMENT PROCESS
First stage: Online interview with The Graduate
Second stage: Graduate Assessment Day (ONSITE) - Monday 2nd June 2025 - 9am - 4:30pm
