Creative Design and Brand Lead in Essex

Are you interested in crafting effective visual communications and preserving a consistent brand identity?

Can you combine creativity with strategic thinking while delivering high-quality design across a wide range of platforms?

Are you an experienced designer who thrives in a changing environment and enjoys collaborating with diverse stakeholders?

If this sounds like you, this could be the next step in your career.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

As our new Creative Design and Brand Lead, you will play a key role in protecting and developing our brand, producing engaging visual content, and ensuring design excellence across the programme.

You will work closely with internal teams, senior leaders, delivery partners, and external stakeholders to deliver creative solutions that communicate our purpose and support business objectives.

Furthermore you will

• Act as the brand guardian, ensuring consistent application of brand guidelines across all materials and supporting training, workshops, audits and quality assurance.
• Mentor and support the Junior Creative & Brand Designer through coaching, feedback and development.
• Manage the end-to-end graphic design request process and internal stakeholder relationships.
• Create and maintain branded templates for presentations, reports, technical documents, brochures, forms, event and marketing materials.
• Maintain the design intranet page, ensuring staff have access to templates, assets, merchandise and guidance.
• Oversee the implementation and administration of Templafy to support consistent brand standards.
• Partner with the People Team to communicate purpose, pillars and principles.
• Produce high-quality presentations and documents for senior leadership and key programme activities.
• Design engaging social media content, including motion graphics, GIFs and short animations.
• Support internal communications, engagement initiatives and events with creative design.
• Stay current with design trends to continuously improve creative output and brand impact.
• Provide ad hoc creative support for External Affairs, including ministerial and cross-government events.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers.

Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises.

And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have

• 7+ years' professional experience in graphic design, including experience supporting bids or corporate communications.
• Demonstrable experience working within and enforcing brand guidelines across large or complex organisations.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including In Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Power Point and Word, with experience creating sophisticated presentation and document templates.
• Solid understanding of typography, layout, branding and visual storytelling.
• Experience designing presentations, brochures, reports, booklets, flyers, banners and other print and digital collateral from concept through to final production.
• Experience implementing branded templates and design processes that improve consistency and efficiency.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously while consistently delivering high‑quality work to tight deadlines.
• Experience mentoring or managing junior designers, providing constructive feedback and supporting professional growth.
• Solid stakeholder management skills with the confidence to advise, coach and support colleagues at all levels.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to explain design rationale and translate complex ideas into compelling visual solutions.
• A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world.

We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow.

We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability.

We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance
• Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)

Optional benefits include

• Electric vehicle lease
• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Shruti Gupta at srgu@cowi. com.

Get to know us even better at our website, www. cowi. com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer .

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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