Head of Brand Design
Location: DMGT Headquarters - London
Position: Maternity Cover
Package Description
Our benefits package increases the longer you've been with us. Here's what to expect:
- 25 days' holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
- Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution.
- Life cover under the Pension Plan 4x your basic salary.
- DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
- Subsidised canteen
- Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
- Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
- Our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted dining cards
Plus many other benefits
Main Responsibilities
- Lead design strategy for sales, insights and marketing materials
- Ensure all sales, insight and marketing materials meet design standards
- Continually look to improve materials by seeking and adopting new creative technologies and practices
- Collaborate internally to deliver high quality sales, insight and marketing materials
- Work in partnership with other designers, sales, marketing and insight teams to produce materials that appeal to clients and agencies. This will include but is not limited to:
- Bespoke templates
- Designed presentations
- Digital mock-ups (static and animated)
- Logos
- Invites
- Website images
- Social images
- One Pagers
- Event branding
- Brand Guidelines
- Primary design resource for DMG Media Comms team
- Primary design resource for DMG Ventures
- Primary design resource for DMG Media Services
- Manage the Brand Design team
- Engender an environment that is conducive to the generation of creative ideas
- Promote a high performance culture
- Develop team through performance conversations and training sessions
- Manage workload and expectations of the team
Accountable For
- Supervising and leading the Brand Design team
- Ensuring that the delivered products or services adhere to the policies and standards of the company
- Delegating job responsibilities among team members and overseeing that quality work is being completed within the deadline
- Working in collaboration with colleagues across different departments
- Working on large projects for senior stakeholders
- Leading designer on all rebranding projects
- Managing freelancers when needed
- Collaborating with the digital design team on new formats, ensuring all mocks are designed in a functioning way
- Collaborating with the print design team on design consistency for cross-platform response
- Strategising on future creative strategies in collaboration with the other creative directors
Person Specification
- Substantial team leadership experience
- Extensive creative experience in a commercial/marketing environment
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe Suite: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Acrobat, as well as a good knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint
- Deep understanding of print and digital media
Skills
- More than eight years of experience in a commercial/marketing environment
- Excellent creative and innovative skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and effective relationship building capacity with clients, partners, and internal teams at different levels in the organization
- Detail-oriented and well organized
- Ability to use strong analytical and artistic approaches to solve complex issues
- Ability to handle multiple projects and prioritize different tasks
- Advanced skills in Adobe CC Suite and Microsoft Office
- Ability to plan, conceptualize, strategize, supervise, and implement graphic design elements effectively.
About dmg media
"dmg media's brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches one in two Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country.
Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, Metro.co.uk, i and inews.co.uk reach more than 10.1m people daily in the UK.
Our newsbrands maintain an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most to our readers, ensuring that we remain experts at delivering relevant and insightful content.
In October, the Mail became the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 7 million followers.
PAMCo H2 2023
GA 2023 September"
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.