The role of the Designer at Teneo is to create, edit and generally assist with design collateral across the company, lifting the quality of production wherever possible.
A Designer at Teneo is responsible for providing the highest quality of service to our clients. A Designer will be proactive in providing support, responding to the needs of the business and requests of clients. They will work on their own or as an extension of a client team as appropriate.
Key Responsibilities
- Working as part of the Design Team to develop design deliverables that turn ideas into reality and solve business challenges / objectives (e.g. pitches/reports and infographics). Considers other demands when planning their work.
- Is flexible and adaptable in taking on tasks or supporting colleagues when required.
- Proactive in identifying design needs and finding solutions.
- Good understanding of client activity/requirements and anticipates next steps/needs without being directed.
- Ensures standards of work and processes are adhered to by following correct admin and using required paperwork -e.g. design briefing documents.
- Flexible, adaptable, reliable and prompt when taking on tasks or supporting colleagues when required.
- Takes time to ensure briefs are understood to produce the correct deliverables in a high quality and timely manner.
- Working directly with and supporting the Senior Vice President to understand how much time will be needed for tasks. Contributes to the administrative overview of all work being done and resource available.
- Increasingly seen as a role model acting on feedback and able to provide constructive feedback to improve outputs and quality.
Required Experience
- Degree/Diploma in design or equivalent combination of education/experience.
- Competent user of Adobe Creative Suite software, across Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Confident in PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
- Arabic language proficiency required.
- Competent standard of English and Maths, understands how to present data visually.
- A strong portfolio showing a thorough understanding of presentations and digital graphic design.
- Wide design knowledge that can be applied to varied projects / challenges. Open to learning new abilities and spots openings in the business to apply fresh skills and techniques.
- Ability to successfully work in a fast-paced environment within established processes.
- Experience of working within set brand guidelines.
- Maintains high standards of quality to produce accurate/ correct outputs.
Required Skills
- A proficient problem solver; pushing design boundaries and going beyond existing experience.
- Competent standard of English and Maths, understands how to present data visually.
- Demonstrates good interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
- Ability to successfully see projects from brief through concept to finished deliverables.
- Seeks opportunity to improve design quality of any task.
- High attention to detail.
Relationships and Responsibilities
- Works well with clients – can take a brief, suggest ideas, manage expectations and regularly check in throughout to ensure the client or team are happy with the direction of travel, through to final delivery.
- Consistently demonstrates desire to set and meet high standards of quality by learning new skills/design techniques. Takes responsibility for own development to upgrade skills.
- Calm under pressure and bounces back from set-backs. Presents a positive outlook and is seen as committed and enthusiastic. Takes critique even-handedly and learns from feedback.
- Liaises with suppliers and clients when required. Can attend client meetings or participate in conference calls if that will help a project’s progress. Gives guidance on production queries e.g. external printing.
- Supports a learning culture and plays an active role in sharing knowledge and insight. Contributes to running training courses and creating learning initiatives. Coaches colleagues in brand usage and general design.
What we can offer
New joiners are supported by an induction programme, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support.
Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects.
Teneo works with clients on complex issues and challenges that often require a multidisciplinary approach that leverage our main business segments – Strategy & Communications, Management Consulting, Financial Advisory, People Advisory, and Risks Advisory. You will have opportunities to work alongside our experts in these disciplines to develop and deliver an integrated solution.
Company Benefits
As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Annual salary review
- End-of-service benefits
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service)
- Private medical insurance (individual and immediate family members)
- Regular social, cultural and charitable activities
- Flexible and remote working with office laptop provided.
About Teneo
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.
Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.
Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.
The firm has more than 1,500 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.
