Graphic Designer

We invite you to join our Marketing team at Burges Salmon as a Graphic Designer! In this exciting role, you'll be designing and creating print, digital, and video materials for both internal and external promotional activities. This pivotal position plays a crucial part in elevating the Burges Salmon brand, ensuring we stand out with a distinctive presence in the competitive marketplace.

As a Graphic Designer, you will play a crucial role in our Marketing department collaborating closely with the Marketing teams and wider Firm.  We are also proud to announce that we have been named RollOnFriday's 'Best Law Firm to Work At' 2024 for the third consecutive year. Join us and be a part of our award-winning teams!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design graphics and wider material for use in print and predominantly digital formats, including campaign reports, brochures, newsletters, invitations, briefings, flyers, advertisements, presentations and display/exhibition graphics.
• Collaborate with Marketing colleagues, for example Digital Marketing, Communications and Business Development colleagues, providing expert advice and guidance on the most effective design solutions in response to a design brief.
• Work with the Brand and Design Manager to identify opportunities to evolve our visual identity and brand guidelines, to keep them fresh and up to date. Also ensure brand and template style guidelines are correctly applied to all marketing materials.
• Liaise with external suppliers regarding the purchase and management of printed material.
• Support the briefing and on-location management of photographer and videographer shoots, also working on image and video post-production when needed.
• Assist with the maintenance of design folders in the Marketing team's shared drive, to ensure all design files, documents and materials are easily locatable.

What we're looking for:

• Significant demonstrable experience in a graphic design role, ideally in a business-to-business, as well as perhaps consumer environment.
• Degree level or equivalent graphic design qualification.
• Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (principally InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat) is essential.
• Excellent attention to detail – able to work accurately and deliver consistent design and artwork quality.
• Experience of working with external suppliers such as printers, photographers, videographers and design agencies.
• Strong written and face-to-face communication skills, with the confidence to engage and work with people successfully at all levels across the firm.
• Strong understanding of brand, and familiarity with the technicalities of brand guidelines.
• Comfortable with using AI tools (such as Copilot, and those native to supplier suites and platforms) to assist with task efficiency where applicable and appropriate.

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About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are pleased to have been named as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2023 for the second year running.  Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

If you have any questions regarding the role or the interview process, please contact Katarina Athanasakos (Resourcing Co-ordinator) - Katarina.athanasakos@burges-salmon.com or call on +44 117 307 6517.

This advert will close as soon as we receive sufficient applications so please apply as soon as you can to be considered.

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