Design and Brand Manager

SALARY: £33,000 per annum

HOURS: 27.5 per week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

LOCATION: Albert Road, Bristol – hybrid

Design and Brand Manager

About Bristol Waste Company

What we do is important – we’re here to keep Bristol, and beyond, clean, and safe. We do this for our city’s residents, workers, visitors, and businesses. Our work helps deliver Bristol’s sustainability targets in partnership with the council. Bristol Waste’s commercial operation, where we serve businesses and organisations across the region, is also growing.

Our ambition is to provide good quality, value for money services, and we continue to deliver a social value impact worth more than £30 million every year. We want people who share our values and want to work with us to drive our business forward.

Purpose Of The Role

To provide design and brand management services to ensure design and brand aligns with the organisation's vision, purpose and values, and is effective in meeting Bristol Waste's corporate and strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Play a key role as a brand guardian in managing and the Bristol Waste Company brand, and sub-brands e.g. Big Tidy and The Big Get Together, as well as work on developing the brand including the commercial business and any potential rebrand.
2. Create effective and stand-out signage, print and digital marketing materials, ensuring consistent on-brand guidelines.
3. Design a wide range of communications and marketing collateral from signage for our offices, leaflets encouraging students to improve their recycling, and tools for our commercial sales team, to infographics, business plans and social impact reports, and projects to inspire behaviour change.
4. Conceptualise and execute creative designs that help deliver our corporate, commercial and marketing objectives.
5. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Bristol City Council) to create on-brand, engaging and impactful materials across mediums and channels.
6. Stay updated with industry trends and best practice in graphic design to continuously improve design capabilities.

Essential Requirements For The Role

1. A Graphic Design degree, equivalent qualification or experience.
2. Extensive experience in brand and brand management including brand guidelines and designing for traditional and digital communications.
3. Creative with excellent attention to detail, and ability to take the initiative.
4. Midweight-level (in-house and/or with agencies) and strong portfolio demonstrating a range of creative and professional design projects and skills.
5. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign/ Photoshop/ Illustrator/ After Effects /Premier Pro) and MS Office.
6. Thorough understanding of design principles, typography, colour theory, layout composition, and accessibility.
7. Experienced in print processes and production (from leaflets to signage).
8. Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise and handle multiple projects simultaneously and to meet deadlines.
9. A collaborative approach, providing high standards of customer service.
10. Excellent team working skills, the ability to respond well to feedback and direction, and the willingness to learn and grow.
11. Ability to prioritise workload while working on multiple tasks within a fast-paced environment.
12. A commitment to Bristol Waste Company’s values (we work together, we do what’s right, we communicate, we perform).

Our Benefits

Full Job Description can be provided upon request.

1. Annual leave package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays.
2. Employer contribution of 5% into the company pension scheme.
3. Support for Mental Health, including a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme that provides support covering Mental Health, Financial and Family related topics. We also have Mental Health First Aiders across the business.
4. Support for your Physical Health with our BUPA Health Cash Plan (we cover the cost of coverage for you), Cycle to Work scheme and an onsite Physiotherapist. All are free for our colleagues.
5. Because we value our colleagues, we want to recruit more employees just like them, which is why we have our employee referral scheme.
6. Dedicated learning and development team. We take pride in developing our colleagues and some examples of this include our In-House Driver Development Programme and internal promotions. Many of our Senior Leadership Team have developed from Operational roles, such as one of our Contract Managers who started as a Street Cleanser.
7. Employee recognition ‘Stand Out Award’ and long service awards. To celebrate our colleagues wherever they are on their journey with us, we recognise and celebrate talent.
8. We recognise that everyone is different and strive to create an environment that supports all colleagues through flexible working. We have introduced a hybrid working model where possible and actively encourage part-time working, job sharing and flexibility on hours. If this interests, you please do get in touch, and we can start a conversation.

Everyone Belongs

At Bristol Waste everyone belongs – we are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We give fair and equal consideration to all applications. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence.

Important Note On Applying

1. Please apply as soon as possible and before 23:59 on the closing date. Sometimes we close vacancies early if we receive a high number of quality applications.
2. Due to the high volume of interest, we won’t be able to receive late applications and we are currently unable to respond to all who apply.
3. If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, it unfortunately means you won’t be invited to interview on this occasion.

Contact Us

Please contact our People Services team to discuss this role, your application, or any reasonable adjustments and support in applying for this position:

1. recruitment@bristolwastecompany.co.uk
2. 0117 440 6676

Thank you for your interest in joining Bristol Waste Company.