Designer Manchester, England
Job description
Designer - Manchester
What if your expertise could help someone, somewhere, to live a better life?
Helping children living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to communicate their pain, giving people with psoriasis their confidence back, shocking 2.3 million HCPs into taking action against second heart attacks to proving to the world that eczema isn’t a skin condition.
Havas Lynx Group is a creative communications agency dedicated to changing the way the world does healthcare communications for the better. We are committed to bringing about change. Change informed by experience, driven by innovation and proven in delivery. We work alongside healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and pharmaceutical brands to overcome the complex challenges of modern healthcare. Our work blends strategic insight and deep scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation, delivering healthcare campaigns and solutions that really make a difference to people’s lives.
We’re a team of over 500+ people in Manchester and London, with a history of over 35 years and an ever-evolving future. You can get a feel for the #LYNXLife via YouTube, #LYNXLife playlist, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Everything this company achieves, every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins, is down to everyone that works
Our role
As a Designer at Havas Lynx Group, you are responsible for establishing the conceptual execution of design projects and campaigns. You will work in conjunction with the Creative team on all design solutions, including digital, interactive, and print. You will also alongside the Client Services team to communicate with the client when appropriate, whilst ensuring the Studio is represented correctly at all times.
Role responsibilities
- Demonstrate an understanding of the clients’ business needs, showing understanding and relevance to the target market.
- Support the creative team by producing creative work across a range of projects, which is appropriate and exceeds the client’s brief
- Actively further your skills in core design applications, including, but not limited to, Photoshop, Illustrator, Print, Digital UX and InDesign and ensure to share this knowledge with the design team
- Ensure the work that you produce in terms of QC, accuracy to brief, quality of output and the intended impact of work is completed to deadline and of a high quality.
- Take ownership of time and commercial understanding of the project for both your work and the juniors you work with
- Excel at your design skills (both graphic and visual) when it comes to visual communication (including typography, UX, UI, image use etc.), design principles (e.g. balance, hierarchy, alignment, repetition, contrast etc.), design ideation and problem solving (research, moodboards, idea generation etc.), branding (identify, logo, palettes, graphics etc.) craft/execution impact, UX and design strategy and actively bring these skills to each brief
- Effectively visualise and create concepts into the final product, supporting the Senior and Lead Designers in giving direction on photography style, imagery, typography, iconography and tone of voice with an eye towards localisation needs
- Collaborate with a variety of disciplines, both internally and externally, to develop design solutions
- Liaise with the Client Services team to determine project objectives, budget, background information and presentation approaches, styles and techniques
What you can expect from us:
A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.
You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:
- Hybrid Working - we require you to work in the Manchester office twice a week
- 28 days annual leave
- Increasing holiday allowance connected to length of service (with the option to buy more, or sell)
- Early Friday finish throughout the year
- Extra early Friday finish during summer months
- Late Monday start during winter months
- Wellness Wednesdays with extended lunch hours
- Wellbeing programme – yoga, football, running club, hiking and more
- Season ticket interest free loans for travel
- #LXAcademy – our huge bespoke training programme for personal and professional development
- Life insurance
- Company pension scheme
- Medicash healthcare benefit
- Enhanced parental return to work scheme
- Fully paid for, company parties and socials!
