Junior Designer

Are you creative and want to develop your career in design.

Our studio has a permanent FT opening for a Junior Designer

This is a fast paced, high-volume creative studio that provides crucial support to the wider marketing function and beyond. The primary focus will be on creative art working and designing of collateral across a variety of projects and channels, whilst maintaining regular communication with the studio manager, peers and key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce high quality creative art working for campaigns, product launches, rates changes, maturities and ongoing studio requests
• Work closely with the studio manager to ensure deliverables can be produced on time and adhering to the brand guidelines
• Collaborate closely with senior designers to ensure brand consistency and creative excellence, with a meticulous eye for detail
• Manage multiple design tasks which often have tight deadlines

• Review marketing design trends and changes in technology, bringing fresh ideas to the team.

Why join the team:

• Unique opportunity to learn from seasoned professionals
• Gain exposure to a variety of projects
• Collaborate with key stakeholders
• Opportunities to develop and gain new skills, within design and beyond

The successful candidate will have an excellent eye for detail, good organisational skills and continually raising standards of output.

• Provide a portfolio link on CV or a PDF
• Background in a working design studio, internal function or freelance projects
• Evidence of supporting a team within a large campaign 
• Confidence to manage stakeholder expectations
• Intermediate Adobe Creative Suite
• Good written and verbal skills. 

• Experience of managing stakeholder's expectations
• Experience of managing workload
• Experience of supporting pre-work and/or delivery of pitch work to clients 
• Financial Services experience

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role. 

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

If you would like to opt in to the scheme please contact our recruitment team when you apply via Get in touch - Coventry Building Society (coventrycareers.co.uk)