graphic designer Bristol, England
Job description
About the Role
Are you a graphic designer looking for an exciting new opportunity to be creative and make your own mark in a challenging new role? Then we want to hear from you!
Our Business Development and Marketing (BDM) team is at the centre of a client-focussed growth strategy that is raising our profile as one of the UK’s leading Audit, Accountancy Tax and Advisory businesses. And we’ve just been shortlisted for Accounting Excellence’s Marketing Team of the Year.
We’ve set ambitious plans to double the size of our business over the next few years, having posted double-digit growth over the last two years. What’s more, we’re ranked in the Top Five of Accountancy Age’s Mid-Tier Power Rankings and certified as a Great Place to Work ®. Our Business Development and Marketing team is at the heart of those ambitious plans, which is why we’re investing in several exciting new roles to significantly expand our team.
As our new Graphic Designer, you’ll have a greenfield opportunity to put your arms around our creative work and make your own mark. You’ll will play a pivotal role in visually communicating our brand, services, and expertise to our clients and the wider market and driving forward our brand. You will collaborate closely with the team and our internal stakeholders to create on-brand engaging, and impactful visual materials across various channels and mediums, including digital and print.
Ideally, you’ll be a middleweight designer, and be able to combine either in-house and/or agency experience with a thorough understanding of corporate branding and marketing. You’ll be able to blend creative flair with strong layout and typography skills, whilst working to clear guidelines. This role provides the ability for you to flex your creativity and show us what you can do. From printed materials to digital assets, you will be creating a variety of artwork for projects and campaigns across the breadth of the firm.
To be successful within the role, you’ll need to take responsibility and ownership of tasks, adopt a strong commercial mindset, build effective working relationships, have excellent attention to detail and be able to work on multiple tasks within a fast-paced client-focused working environment.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Owning our corporate and employer brand as well as being our internal brand guardian
- Developing and designing visually appealing marketing collateral, including brochures, presentations, infographics and illustrations, thought leadership, social media graphics, email communications, web graphics and other digital and print materials.
- Managing our communications hierarchy, our brand tools and software platforms, image libraries and asset management.
- Working with and flexing the firm’s visual identity to create effective, stand-out marketing materials. Ensuring consistency and adherence to brand guidelines in all design outputs.
- Conceptualising and executing creative design solutions that align with our messaging, and marketing objectives.
- Sourcing appropriate imagery and liaising with external photographers and videographers.
- Pragmatically approaching projects to ensure both creative and business needs are met.
- Staying updated with industry trends and best practices in graphic design to continuously enhance design capabilities.
- Managing the relationship with our roster of supporting agencies.
- Innovating and take our visual identity forward as eye ambitious growth.
Check out our Career Site and Glassdoor profile to find out more about life at Bishop Fleming.
Sounds good? – then show us what you’re made of…
We’re looking for ambitious, hardworking and self-motivated people with excellent communication skills and a desire to drive their career forward.
You will be supported to complete a wide range of professional and personal development throughout your career, both remotely and face to face, to ensure that you have the skills and knowledge you need to aid your future career.
About You
We are looking for someone who is passionate and who can conceptualise ideas and turn them into reality by applying their extensive design skills. To be considered for the role, you will have:
- A Graphic Design degree or equivalent qualification.
- Ideally middleweight-level experience either in-house and/or with agencies
- Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign/Photoshop/Illustrator/After Effects/Premier Pro) and MS Office.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating a range of creative and professional design work.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to work within established brand guidelines.
- Solid understanding of design principles, typography, colour theory, and layout composition.
- Experience with print production and associated marketing and brand processes
- A natural creative ability with excellent attention to detail and takes pride in the quality and standard of their work.
- Strong organisational, communication and time management skills, with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- A mature and pro-active attitude to work with the ability to provide excellent customer service to stakeholders.
- Excellent team working skills, the ability to take direction and the willingness to learn and grow.
- Knowledge of web design, UI/UX principles, and video editing software would be advantageous, but not essential.
- An ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback.
Why Bishop Fleming?!
At Bishop Fleming, we take pride in putting our people first. We are a Great Place to Work® certified and offer an outstanding work environment, strong office culture and extensive perks (listed below). We’re also a rapidly growing Top 30 Accountancy firm and have just been ranked fifth in the Accountancy Age Mid-Tier Power Rankings. We’re proud to be the highest ranked firm in the South West. This comes on the back of nearly 20% growth last year, several award wins, and record-breaking recruitment taking our headcount to over 40 partners and close to 500 people.
We are a firm that thinks clients, people and communities. As a member of Business in the Community (BITC) we are focussed on improving our responsible business practices and collectively making positive impacts for the benefit of society.
If that’s not enough, we offer a fantastic range of benefits including:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus Christmas off!
- Hybrid and flexible working
- A contributory Pension scheme
- Life assurance and critical illness cover
- Simply Health cashback plan including access to 24/7 online GP service and counselling services
- Perkbox discounts and rewards platform with over 4,00 perks and discounts
- Yulife employee wellbeing app
- Social events with active social committees that plan internal and external events
- Numerous opportunities for development
Please contact Annie Hallam, Head of Business Development and Marketing Operations if you would like to discuss this opportunity further.
We welcome applicants who would like the flexibility in their working arrangements, including working from home or part time working, which may help to accommodate parent or carer responsibilities, further studies and activities outside of work.
We are committed to welcoming new people into an inclusive working environment, where everyone is given equal opportunity to reach their full potential. We support a culture where people are valued and treated fairly with respect and differences are understood and celebrated.
The more varied our workforce, the broader the expertise within our business. The broader our expertise, the greater our chances of innovation and success. That's why we're committed to equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion at every level.
