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Midweight Designer 

Manchester (Hybrid) | From £30,000
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We’re looking for someone with excellent creative skills and relevant agency or in-house experience. Based in either Manchester or Leeds, with a hybrid home and office working pattern, you will be responsible for Social’s design output across our offices in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and London.  

You’ll work on a wide range of design projects, bringing ideas to life and helping us to create award-winning campaigns. 

It’s important that you are a strong conceptual designer but are equally capable of developing a design idea from initial concept through to final artwork. You’ll have a central role in our agency team and be comfortable presenting your ideas both internally and directly to clients, as well as taking part in new business pitch processes. 

Social is a full-service PR, public affairs, marketing and creative agency – with specialist teams delivering ESG communications, strategy, events and video.  We are a B-Corp and have a highly experienced team of ex-journalists, communications professionals, events specialists and consultants. A strong portfolio of clients spans the property, transport, energy, education, housing and public sectors. 

Key responsibilities 

Your main responsibilities will be to: 

  • Collaborate across the agency on design projects and ensure high quality output 
  • Manage and schedule your workflow  
  • Ensure design jobs are delivered on time and within budget 
  • Respond to the varied creative and design requirements of a multi-office agency team 

Key qualifications and skills 

We are looking for: 

  • Ambition to grow our agency’s design service 
  • Team-first and a can-do attitude 
  • Personable approach, able to build strong working relationships with colleagues across different locations and with clients 
  • Experience in designing for both on and offline channels 
  • Ability to design assets suitable for various communications channels (e.g. publications, marketing materials, digital channels, video, B2B and B2C campaigns) 
  • Excellent layout and typographical skills 
  • Attention to detail with a right first time mentality 
  • Excellent working knowledge of Creative Cloud (inc. InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator). 
  • Knowledge of After Effects and XD would be desirable but not essential 
  • A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint 
  • Commercial insight and experience 

Benefits

We offer all colleagues a number of benefits to support their work and home lives.

  • Competitive salary and transparent salary bands 
  • Commitment to super flexible and remote working 
  • Provision of home working equipment (including desk and chair) and IT kit (including laptop and mobile phone) 
  • Thirty days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata) 
  • Five days paid volunteering leave each year 
  • Learning and development programme 
  • Access to a medical cash plan, employee assistance programme and health and wellness apps 
  • Enhanced sickness, compassionate, maternity, paternity and adoption leave 
  • Regular team socials 
  • Access to discretionary company bonus scheme 
  • Statutory pension scheme 

This is a fantastic opportunity to start in a career at an award-winning, fast growing and purpose driven agency. Please send us your CV and a short note about why you’re interested in the role.