Job Description
Role Purpose
To provide full consultancy service with original creative conceptual and design solutions in many formats including new media from written and verbal briefs from a wide range of industries. This role will work on all Publishing and Events collateral including external clients and their corporate communications used for DMG Global Energy products and events.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
• To assist the senior designer on projects to achieve client’s objectives
• You will be producing designs to brief, ensuring tight deadlines are met and multiple projects are being handles simultaneously.
• Ability to produce a range of marketing materials to a high standard, while meeting brief and brand guidelines.
• To provide consultancy service by identifying, evaluating and advising internal and external clients requests for creative design or production services to ensure all work is supplied to a high standard, on time and to budget.
• To develop good communications and working relationships with all dmg staff and promote and maintain awareness of existing and new services provided, to support and structure product development.
• To monitor, review and evaluate all dmg products in respect of design and productions to ensure prominence in the marketplace.
• To monitor, trouble-shoot and maintain own workstation, hardware and software to ensure the system works effectively and efficiently or where this is not possible to bring the problem to the attention of IT.
• To check all printed proofs and final printed material for own jobs for accuracy, quality and cost purposes.
Relationships
• Senior designer, all sales/editorial/marketing and exhibition staff on a daily basis for assigned projects
• To brief external suppliers of design, illustration, photography, and typesetting on a regular basis to ensure the brief is fulfilled to the highest standard
• Communicating with external suppliers of print, exhibition/conference promotions on a daily basis to ensure a cost effective, timely and quality service is provided.
• Briefing the Print and Production Controller to fulfil creative of customer requirements
• Printers – to quality check
Skills and Qualifications
Technical / Functional
• BA in graphic design or new media or equivalent
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in graphic design
• Creative and visualisation skills
• An eye for detail
• Design techniques and latest trends
• Working knowledge and understanding of digital and print design principles
• Negotiation with internal clients
• Good understanding of technology/new areas of development
• Publishing, advertising and marketing
• Printing techniques, terminology and processes
• Knowledge of scanners/zip drives/ printers and CD writers and other peripherals
• Studio server, networking, storage, scanning and archiving hardware procedures
• Working knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
• Basic IT troubleshooting skills
• Strong understanding of typography
• Appreciation of good photographic imagery and aesthetics
