Graduate Trainee, Visual Designer

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions.

Marex Graduate Programme: Embark on a transformative journey with Marex's Full-Time Graduate Programme - an experience tailored to empower and support Analysts. Dive into the 'Backpack to Briefcase' bootcamp, unveiling the intricacies of financial services, Marex's purpose, and strategic priorities. Join your team post-bootcamp, fostering connections through continuous training. Learn, grow, and expand your network through a diverse array of sessions fast-tracking your understanding of Marex and the industry. Engage in workshops covering behavioural, cognitive skills, technical understanding, and business awareness, nurturing your professional development. Throughout the programme, seize the opportunity to attend informal insight events and a lunch and learn series hosted by senior Marex Leaders.

Department Description: Marex Technology delivers efficiency, scalability and security for the business. The Marex Technology Department provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. The Design team’s focus is the strategy, design, and production of high quality and consistent creative output across the Marex group.

Role Summary: As a new graduate, you provide support for visual design capabilities across the Marex group, worldwide. Helping to maintain consistency of design for Investor/Client/Staff related material including brochures, events, general sales and brand collateral. Graphic design abilities will be required for managing the rollout and ongoing creation of collateral for new corporate branding across the business.

Overall Responsibilities:

• Production of business documents for sales teams, including brochures, events, and social media.
• Working with, managing, and contributing to/expanding our brand design system and guidelines.
• Sourcing and/or creating stock imagery and video footage.

Standard Responsibilities for all Roles:

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with the FCA’s Code of Conduct.
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/or your supervisor as required.
• To elevate risk events immediately.
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.

Ideal Degree Types: Interaction Design, Product Design, UX Design, Design Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Creative Computing. We will still consider applications outside of these degree types.

Skills And Experience:

• Degree educated 2:1 or higher.
• Knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma or similar software.
• Ability to use and create templates in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
• An interest in motion design and video content production would be a big plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
• Academic or placement projects involving product or interface design - particularly tools, dashboards, data-heavy applications, or platforms.
• Any internship or work placement in a product company, fintech, or technology environment.
• Personal or side projects that show initiative - especially anything built rather than just designed.
• Familiarity with working inside or alongside a design system, even as a consumer.

Competencies:

• Interested in designing with grids and brand design systems.
• Visual design ability to make things look and feel well-balanced and interesting.
• Ability to communicate what makes a design work (or doesn’t).
• A keen and experienced eye for typography.
• You can think about design in a strategic way, not just what looks good.
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment.
• Demonstrates curiosity.
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.

Company Values: Acting as a role model for the values of the Company: Respect, Integrity, Collaborative, Developing our People, Adaptable and Nimble.

Conduct Rules: You must act with integrity, act with due skill, care and diligence, be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators, pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly, observe proper standard of market conduct, and act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers.

Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.