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Group Creative Designer - Swindon
Up to £ + benefits
Brand OverviewConnect Group PLC is one of the UK's largest specialist distributors operating in large and diverse markets. The Group has four separate divisions, connecting suppliers to customers in an efficient, knowledgeable and service oriented way.
Role DescriptionGroup Creative Designer - Swindon
Development/Training opportunity until 3rd November 2017.
About the Group Creative Designer Role:
A vacancy has arisen for an in-house Creative Designer to work within the Group Communications department of Connect Group PLC at Rowan House, Swindon.
This is a small but very busy team, and there is a requirement for a dynamic creative designer to help manage key internal and external brands and supporting communications materials.
As the designer for the Group the role will also involve providing design support for all businesses within the Group, creating professional designs and layouts for promotional, internal and external documents as well as press materials both in print and online. You'll manage multiple projects ensuring deadlines are met and you'll be responsible for the corporate photography repository.
Key responsibilities are:
- You will be the lead for a number of specialist brands
- Ability to design for communication through a mix of channels - print, web and email
- Generate original thinking within brand guidelines, complemented by excellent design and layout skills with an exacting attention to detail
- Ability to present design visuals to all internal stakeholders and communicate clearly your thought processes in the creation of each campaign
- A strong understanding of preparation of artwork required for both print and digital outputs
- Collaborate closely with the Creative Photo and Videographer, ensuring all imagery produced is to brief and suitable for use for both print and digital
- Ability to produce PowerPoint presentations to brief
About you:
- Recognised degree in Graphic Design or equivalent.
- Excellent Adobe CC knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Must be proficient in design for both print and digital.
- An outstanding portfolio, showcasing finished work and proven commercial results or application.
- Highly creative and passionate with a flair for design and presentation.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic, keen learner.
Desirable:
- HTML experience.
- Knowledge of MS Outlook and Office applications.
About Us:
Connect Group PLC is a specialist distribution company, which offers market-leading expertise in a range of industries. With a combined revenue of £1.9bn, we employ 6,700 staff and operate in the UK and worldwide.
Connect Group operates four market-focused divisions, offering unrivalled expertise in:
- News & Media - Encompassing: Smiths News, Dawson Media Direct and Pass My Parcel. Smiths News is the UK's largest newspaper and magazine wholesaling business with an approximate 55 per cent. market share; Dawson Media Direct is an international media direct business supplying newspapers, magazines and inflight entertainment technology and content; Pass My Parcel, a wholly-owned 'click and collect' delivery service, operated by the Smiths News business, has a network of over 3,000 parcel shops and clients which include Amazon and ASOS.
- Parcel Freight - Tuffnells is a leading provider of next-day B2B delivery of mixed parcel freight consignments, specialising in items of irregular dimension and weight, with 37 depots, delivering over 13 million consignments per annum to over 4,500 customers.
- Books - Combining a number of recognised brands in print and digital bookselling, including Bertrams, Dawson Books and Wordery. A leading distributor of printed and digital books, the division supplies a mix of traditional and online booksellers, academic and public libraries and direct to consumer through Wordery.
- Education & Care - An independent supplier of consumable products to the Education and Care markets through The Consortium and West Mercia Supplies. The division currently serves over 30,000 customers with an extensive range of over 40,000 products across a branded, own-brand and value range, including stationery, arts and craft and cleaning.*
* on 7 February 2017 Connect Group announced it had signed an agreement with RM plc to dispose of its Education & Care division, for a cash consideration of £56.5m on a cash free, debt free basis.