Brand & Digital Designer - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract in Mansfield

At Klipboard, we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work.

Klipboard provides specialist software, services and support to deliver fully integrated trading and business management solutions to companies in the distributive trade – wherever they are in the world. With a unique depth of knowledge and experience in ERP/SaaS solutions, Klipboard has a wide range of clients including wholesalers, distributors, merchants and retailers from small traders to multinational enterprises. Klipboard has offices in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Kenya and North America. Our mission is simple: to design and deliver high performance, integrated ERP solutions that enable our distributive trade customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively.

Klipboard is a global, growing business that embraces AI and emerging technologies to enhance customer outcomes, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We’re looking for people who are curious about or fluid with AI, open to change, and excited to learn how technology can improve the way we work and help our customers which is always supported by strong human insight and communication.

This role is responsible for creating high-quality visual design across brand, marketing and digital channels. Working as part of the Global Brand & Creative Team, the Brand & Digital Designer will support the development of compelling creative assets that strengthen brand consistency and elevate the overall visual standard of the business. The role combines strong traditional design craft with digital and web design capability. The designer will work across campaign creative, brand assets, marketing materials, presentations, social content and web page design, ensuring all outputs are visually strong, on-brand and aligned to business objectives.

Working closely with the Creative Director, Head of Global Creative, content writers, web teams and the Creative Operations Lead/Partner, this role contributes to the end-to-end creative process — from concept through to execution — across both offline and digital environments. This role is initially a 12 month FTC with the potential to turn permanent.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality visual assets across a wide range of formats including campaign creative, brochures, presentations, social content, email graphics and digital marketing materials.
• Translate briefs into strong, effective and on-brand design solutions that support marketing and commercial objectives.
• Maintain consistency and integrity of the brand across all outputs, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and visual standards.
• Contribute to creative concepts and visual ideas for campaigns, launches and content programmes.
• Work collaboratively with content writers to bring messaging to life visually across digital and print formats.
• Support the ongoing evolution and application of the brand across different regions, sectors and marketing channels.
• Design web page layouts, landing pages and digital components that align with brand standards and user experience best practice.
• Create visual assets for websites including banners, graphics, icons and supporting imagery.
• Prepare and supply web-ready design assets in appropriate formats and specifications for development teams.
• Work alongside web and development teams to ensure designs are practical, consistent and effective across devices and screen sizes.
• Support the continuous improvement of website design, layout and visual consistency across platforms.
• Work from structured briefs and collaborate with the Creative Operations Lead/Partner to ensure timely delivery against priorities and deadlines.
• Manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail and quality.
• Respond to feedback constructively and refine creative work where required.
• Contribute to shared design resources, templates and brand assets to support efficiency and consistency.
• Support the wider marketing team with creative requirements across brand, content and digital activity.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

• Proven experience in a design role, either in-house or within an agency environment.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality brand, campaign and digital design work.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• AI proficient.
• Experience using Adobe tools to create assets across print, digital and web formats.
• Solid understanding of typography, layout, colour and visual hierarchy.
• Experience designing for both print and digital formats.
• Experience creating web page designs and digital assets for online use.
• Understanding of responsive design principles and how design translates to web environments.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to high visual standards.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and work to deadlines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

• Experience working with Figma or similar UI design tools.
• Familiarity with additional Adobe tools such as After Effects, Premiere Pro or Adobe XD.
• Understanding of UX principles and digital user behaviour.
• Experience designing for CMS-driven websites.
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS to support collaboration with web teams.
• Experience within a B2B, technology or software-led organisation.
• Current portfolio either online or pdf is required with submissions.

Company Info:

You may also have seen from our recent posts that we are excited to begin sharing our new company name – Klipboard. Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is becoming Klipboard and our new brand is designed to bring together our expertise across distribution, automotive, retail, rental, transport management, manufacturing, and field service management. We have offices based across the world and we are looking for talented individuals to join our growing teams. Due to our growth over the last few years it is an exciting time to join us as we enter our next chapter!

Equal Opportunities:

As a global company, we value and respect the diversity of our workforce, aiming to empower everyone to embrace each other's differences. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral to our company and culture. We recognize the benefits of a diverse workforce, where creativity and valuing differences enable us all to thrive and sparks innovation. If you require any help, adjustments and/or support during the interview and offer process then please advise our TA or HR team. Research shows that women and other underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a role unless they meet every listed requirement. However, we recognise that skills and experience come in many forms, and we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every criterion. If you are passionate about this role and believe you have the right mindset and transferrable skills, we would love to hear from you!