Graphic Designer - Family Leave

Graphic Designer - Family Leave

Graphic Designer - Family Leave

Apply locations Cobalt time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: March 10, 2025 (11 days left to apply) job requisition id JR246

Job Posting Title

Graphic Designer - Family Leave

Salary Band

£28,542 - £38,616

LC1 General

Job Description

About the role

We’re looking for a Graphic Designer to join our creatively-led internal team to cover family leave as we help Newcastle Building Society bring our purpose to life across a wide range of media.

We believe that everyone deserves a home and to have the opportunity to save and plan for their future. At Newcastle Building Society, that is what we do. We’re committed to the people and places in our region and we’re proud to help our communities achieve a better financial future.

It’s an exciting time to be part of our growth as we’re launching a new brand with Manchester Building Society and creating flagship city centre branches in two locations.

Bring your creative ideas, design experience and brand understanding into play alongside our existing designers and wider marketing team.

From initial concepts through to fully realised materials, you will be designing and creating outstanding creative that supports our marketing plan. You’ll be involved in the full range of the Society’s marketing activity from branch posters and visual merchandising for our retail network, to digital media and product brochures.

The work will be varied and you’ll often have to manage several projects at once. You’ll be working with and communicating with people at all levels, sharing your ideas and expertise to make sure that our visual style aligns with our brand identity, guidelines and purpose.

Responsibilities:

1. Help bring new ideas for design and content creation to the team using your expertise and eye for great design.
2. Scope and create templates for our marketing and communications teams to be more efficient in their posting on social media, email, and other channels.
3. Manage other design needs such as presentations, signage, branch collateral, outdoor advertising, digital ads, and trade show collateral as needed.

About You

We are looking for candidates who bring creative flair, a passion for design, and demonstrable understanding of brand identity.

You will be an excellent communicator able to take a brief and get to the heart of the problem you are trying to solve for your stakeholders, using your expertise and experience to provide recommendations for solutions that meet the clients’ needs.

You will have excellent time management skills and will manage client/stakeholder expectations with clear communications of timescales and advising the impact of any changes to brief on costs and timescales.

You will have experience with art direction for photography and filmography to ensure asset creation is fit for purpose and in agreed brand styles.

You will be:

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, In-design, Photoshop, Illustrator & Pre-Press preparation
• Interested in design trends
• Skilled in customer centred design principles
• Knowledgeable in print and production techniques

About Us

Newcastle Building Society is the North East’s largest Building Society whose purpose “Connecting our communities with a better financial future” inspires and directs our activities.

The Marketing Communication team plays a key part in helping to connect with customers in a meaningful way by creating communications and activities that promote our brand, our purpose and relevant products to existing customers and new prospects.

This is a unique opportunity to take your career to the next level – right here in the heart of the beautiful North East. As part of Newcastle Building Society you will be working in an exciting, friendly and fast-paced workplace (with flexible home working too), with great opportunities for self-development and career progression where you can realise your potential and do your best work.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage application from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe that everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place the belong. A place to be you.

What do you get in return?

• A 35-hour weekly contract
• 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Bonus Scheme (paid annually) - On target 5%, up to 10% depending on performance
• Colleague mortgage scheme and access to our financial advisors
• Pension scheme – up to 9% employers’ contribution
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
• Access to a range of wellbeing benefits, including medicash scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay regardless of gender or route to parenthood
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• The option to buy and sell holidays
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• A broad range of learning and development opportunities
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts
• Free onsite gym at Cobalt and access to a range of discounted/subsidised gym memberships nationwide
• A wide range of recognition initiatives to recognise and reward great performance
• Hybrid working

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at sarah.smith@newcastle.co.uk

Company:

Newcastle Building Society

Why work here?

People are the focus of absolutely everything we do. We believe in people, we care deeply about their hopes, their dreams and their wellbeing. And that applies equally to our customers, our communities and our colleagues – which means you, if you choose to work here. It’s important to us that you know if you join us we will welcome you, respect you, encourage you and help you to achieve your goals.