As Graphic Design Director

You will lead the discipline for large scale projects/event programmes and collaborate with other Graphic and Digital Design Directors to lead the discipline within the creative department. Inspiring and managing the team to create designs that change audience behaviour and experimenting with new techniques that will engage our audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and inspire award-winning work with your team, influencing audiences through ideas and creativity.
• Lead by example to consistently inspire the development of world-class, pioneering ideas and experiences.
• Develop designs that bring our clients communications to life, ensuring effectiveness and brand consistency.
• Lead the creation of graphic elements within experiential playbooks for clients, implement and ensure consistency across event programmes and large scale events.
• Partner with clients to explore application of brand, challenging and consulting on best practice and ensuring they stay current.
• Lead the discipline from the initial design concept through to delivery.
• Consistently deliver successful solutions and high-quality work and understand how to deliver the best for client’s objectives and budgets.
• Take advantage of the strategic input on briefs to immerse within the client’s business, audience, and objectives. Identify, understand their commercial and internal challenges to inspire and deliver effective solutions that consider the holistic needs of the brand.
• Use your experience and knowledge to advise on the time needed and resource skills required to execute design effectively.
• Learn new skills and stay abreast of software developments, and successfully share and apply them to our practices to help improve processes and procedures and be effective with time.
• Continually develop practices and processes to inspire, innovate and harness new thinking.
• Work closely with the Graphics Production team to ensure smooth workflow across the lifecycle of a project.
• Develop new AI enabled workflows and implement across the design process.
• Ensure design thinking and craft are of the highest quality across all phases of the project and that the views and concerns of colleagues are understood and addressed.
• Mentor other members of the team, helping them achieve their ambitions, improve, and expand their skills with the ultimate goal of creating the most exciting and inspiring work.
• Ensure your team have clear progression plans and work with the creative leadership to ensure they are being given the opportunities for growth.
• Represent GPJ by connecting with new talent and inspiring the next generation of creatives.