Middleweight Designer (Annual Reporting)

How do you turn complex business objectives into award-winning annual reports? Inspire a global workforce through a comms campaign, launch a sustainability strategy or embed a new purpose? These are just some of the diverse challenges you’ll be tackling day-to-day. This role is for conceptual thinkers and meticulous crafters. Whether you’re inspiring start-ups to think big or helping FTSE giants find nimble solutions, you’re as passionate about shaping ideas as you are designing beautiful layouts.

You’ll enjoy finding ingenious solutions with creatives of every kind – from copywriters and animators to digital designers and moving image experts. You’ll be working with the design team to deliver exceptional insight-led creative that cuts through the noise and makes a measurable impact.

The fun stuff:

• Create insightful creative that connects with your audience
• A focus on corporate reporting but opportunities to work across a broader range of disciplines
• Present and pitch your ideas to clients and colleagues
• Collaborate with a team of creatives that include print, digital, moving image, animators and copywriters.

The fundamentals:

• High attention to detail with strong typographic and layout skills
• Be a creative thinker. Able to grasp a client's business and work with your team to tailor creative solutions and meet their objectives
• Can articulate your thinking clearly and explain your ideas to your team
• A natural team player, can develop and maintain positive working relationships.

Experience:

• Work that demonstrates strong conceptual thinking
• Background in corporate communications – specifically corporate reporting, brand and campaign work is a bonus.
• Curious about the world you live in, passionate about all things design and a desire to push creativity and share knowledge.

Personal qualities:

• Strong interpersonal and communications skills necessary to build trust and respect
• Proactive attitude that embraces collaboration
• Unquestionable business ethics and integrity
• Flexible, adaptable style and approach
• Embodies and demonstrates Emperor’s Values – Aim High, Creativity Everywhere, Infectious Enthusiasm, Always Learning and Razor Sharp.

About Emperor:

Emperor is an employee owned strategic creative consultancy with offices in London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester and Dubai. Emperor is for your great ambitions. We want to be the agency of choice for ambitious talent. This means supporting our partners to achieve things that you have never done before. This isn’t just about the original work we’ll create, but how we’ll break new ground to create it. In you we trust. We welcome every partner to experience a sense of belonging; whoever they are, wherever they’re working from, whatever their role. With creativity, effort and empathy, we make the feeling real. Our values guide how we work every day, with each other, our clients, and suppliers. Our employee-owned status helps us see working life differently, purposefully, collectively and we’re fully committed to responsible business that leaves a positive footprint for our clients, our partners, communities and society.

Next Steps:

If you are successfully shortlisted for the role, the recruitment team will be in touch via email, and the process will begin from there. We endeavour to contact you within 5 working days of your application, however, this may vary depending on the volume of applications we receive. Good Luck!

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.