Designer [12 months FTC] in Malmesbury

About Hogarth

Hogarth is the Global Content Production Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca‑Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media – both established and emerging.

What does a Designer do at Hogarth?

In this role you will be responsible for creating multimedia design across all media including: print, online (digital and social), OOH, video and collateral campaigns and initiatives for well‑known global brands. You will have a great eye for design, come from a print or digital background, be fluent in Adobe Creative Suite and have outstanding communication and organisation skills. You'll be working in a fast‑paced, fun environment, ensuring all work adheres to client guidelines, meets the brand requirements, timelines and deadlines.

In addition to the above the role will be responsible for the following:

• Interrogating briefs for completeness and consulting with our project manager on intended usage to ensure final deliverables and deadlines are clearly defined.
• Manage multiple jobs and projects at any one time, across all disciplines, at different stages and with different requirements.
• Demonstrate and champion a clear understanding of our client’s brand, delivering a consistently high quality of work.
• Expand on a variety of creative asset formats, such as print (retail), digital, social and moving image (social), and follow through to producing artwork which adheres to guidelines and specs for various media.
• Create designs for bespoke spaces such as DOOH and OOH.
• Create and deliver online retail assets for 3rd Party Retailers.
• Professionally present concepts as in‑situ mock‑ups to our client's Centre of Excellence for approval.
• Display an excellent understanding of design theory and typography.
• Client facing skills and presentation abilities and present ideas in a clear and concise manner.
• Manage and monitor timelines and deadlines, set realistic client expectations and proactively chase and interrogate delays.
• Effectively re‑prioritise workload if new requests arise, being proactive in resolving any issues that arise and escalating as appropriate for support.
• Work collaboratively with project manager, the client and the wider Hogarth team.
• Manage work using relevant Hogarth technologies and adhere to agreed processes, ensuring that best practice is applied at all times.
• Liaise with all stakeholders, ensuring they are always kept up to‑date with the status of projects and attending and inputting to meetings in relation to account relationships, team collaboration, workflow, workload management and issue resolution.

Requirements

• Experience working in design teams within the industry.
• Strong design and typography skills.
• Possess advanced Mac and program skills, including key Creative Suite programmes (InDesign, Photoshop, Figma, Premier Pro/AFX).
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• A ‘can do’ attitude and calmness under pressure.

Hogarth Values

• Heart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.
• Hands on: We don’t wait for things to happen, we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don’t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.
• Honest: We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.
• Happy family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don’t lose perspective or our sense of humour.
• Hungry: We are an inquisitive community. We want to create an environment which inspires ourselves and others to be better. It is important to continuously challenge ourselves and our ways of working. We aim to provide staff with the opportunities to develop and learn.

The Package

• 25 days holiday.
• Private Medical Care (Bupa).
• Life Assurance – four times annual salary.
• Pension Scheme – Company contribution matched: Employee 4%, Employer 6%, Total 10%.
• An extra day leave on your birthday.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• WPP Group Discounts.
• Travel Season Ticket Loan.
• Mortgage Advice – in partnership with Charles Cameron & Associate.
• 1 Volunteering Day per year.

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. We rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing personal information under the GDPR for purposes of recruitment and applications for employment.