Manager, Design Lead, Agency, Enabling Functions

Leeds, United Kingdom

Job Description


Connect to your Industry

This is an opportunity to join Deloitte\'s award-winning creative agency 368.

The agency is split between London, and Leeds with a support team in Hyderabad, with around 110 people. This role is based in Leeds. The agency creates campaigns across the UK, North South Europe and Globally. It\'s a fun and friendly place to work, with a great team spirit.

The Creative department in which this role sits, consists of team of concepting creatives, designers, UX specialists and a film team. The agency also includes specialist teams that provide Deloitte branded experiences, digital developers, Social Media, Strategy and SEO as well as a full team of Account Leads and Project Managers.

This role will look after and manage a range of design projects, taking the design lead on them and coordinating design resource, ensuring quality control, brand alignment and efficiencies. The role will sit alongside other design leads and together you will manage individual designers within your team. You will also support and mentor other members of the design team especially when it comes to the articulation of ideas and design concepts. You will report into the Head of Design.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It\'s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

  • You will work with, and manage a team of creative specialists who work to the highest standards to create defining, and where possible, award winning work.
  • You will work creating and managing designers who design visual identities to promote campaigns; and specific projects that work across multiple executions aligned with a big campaign idea. We believe that to create impactful work we need to stand out and be distinctive. Standing out requires us to be original and inventive and we expect our designs leads to inspire our designers to think beyond the expected.
  • Other work we do includes eye-catching and engaging ideas for social media; page layout designs that are clear, confident and human; graphics and infographics that both simplify the complex, and look beautiful at the same time,
  • You will work collaboratively with all teams within 368 and also with our internal clients.
  • You will take a lead on ensuring our work is designed to a high standard and aligns with our brand ensuring our high standards for quality are met. Quality control and efficiency are key measurables within the agency.
  • You will manage, nurture and mentor other designers and upskill them based on your experience. We encourage people to share their knowledge and teach leading by example.
  • You will actively support the Head of Design and act as his representative in Leeds, acting as a leadership role model, helping the operations team with resourcing and WIP management and become a key cornerstone of the department and agency.
Connect to your skills and professional experience

As an experienced Creative Professional, you will be confident and comfortable in interrogating a brief and use it as a springboard to create beautiful and thought provoking designs that communicate clearly and help Deloitte stand out from our competitors. You will be able to articulate your thought processes and present work to our clients with passion. You\'ll be motivated and inspired to help solve our clients\' problems with the right creative solutions. You are someone who thrives in a strong team environment, is supportive of your colleagues, and who takes genuine shared ownership and pride in the success of 368.

Essentials:
  • You will have strong inspirational leadership skills
  • You have experience in managing designers at different levels
  • You have experience in managing workflow, WIPs,
  • You will have the ability to transform dull communications into clear, simple, intelligent and human designs that will resonate with different audiences
  • You will showcase exceptional design skills in print and digital (advertising, brochures, DM,) email marketing, website content, social media and video graphics). We\'re looking for clean, typographically elegant, imaginative and impactful work that demands a second look
  • You are experienced at coming up with problem solving, campaign-driven creative design ideas to an award-winning standard
  • You can showcase your ability to work across multiple campaigns and initiatives
  • Your attention to quality control and detail is excellent
  • You have strong experience working with Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator/Key Note/Powerpoint etc.
Desirables
  • You are used to handling multiple deadlines and working under a certain amount of pressure with a smile, and have a can-do attitude
  • You are a team player who can show evidence of working with others to get things done,
  • You are someone with the imagination to understand the potential of the Deloitte brand and how to elevate it
  • You have excellent interpersonal and presentation skills and are a strong and articulate communicator
Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you\'ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

Connect with your colleagues

"The support that Deloitte offers is great, and the work is always interesting and motivating.\xe2\x80\x9d

"The amount of investment in me in terms of training and development has been incredible - it has undoubtedly helped me to progress my career."

-Jim, Enabling Functions

Connect to your agile working options

Location: This role will be based in Leeds, though there is flexibility around working from home.

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You\'ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

You\'ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you\'ll be part of the Leeds team. You\'ll spend most of your time working from home like all of your Leeds colleagues in the Enabling Functions, or in a local collaboration space when needed. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.

You\'ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We\'re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we\'re already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.

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Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it\'s why we\'re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we\'re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we\'ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it\'s only when you\'re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we\'ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it\'s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you\'ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you\'ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you\'ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you\'ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You\'ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you\'ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD2993347
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Leeds, United Kingdom
  • Education
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