Designer in Nottingham

Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world's first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.

As a part of The Brandtech Group, we are at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

About the role:

Working in true collaboration with our client with one goal in mind: 'to be the leading agency partner for the development of stunning and effective needs based content and digital media campaigns'. These brands are at the forefront of contemporary thinking, utilising in-depth insight for digital strategy and content advertising. They are also dedicated to sustainability and foregrounding a brand purpose, which means the work we do with them requires working creative thinking into every brief, regardless of scale. We want to create industry-leading, world-class work that's truly beautiful, smart, and effective.

To help us achieve our goal, we are looking for a strong, highly motivated and conceptual designer with beauty and BPC creds to join us in this exciting ambition. As a Designer you will be an experienced digitally focused designer, comfortable taking design projects from brief through to completion, providing new ideas and creativity whilst working closely with the client's brand guidelines. You will be producing design to the client's brief and exacting standards whilst positively influencing clients with your creative input in addition to undertaking and pitching new creative concepts. You will be expected to work on a range of creatives from e-commerce to social media, bringing simplicity in design to the most complex briefs.

What you will be doing:

• Producing beautiful and innovative designs for our client's websites, e-commerce (A+ and Shopalyst) pages and social media channels.
• To be responsible for the full design lifecycle from concept to execution.
• To develop a deep understanding of target audiences and the client's marketing strategy to deliver high quality results that have an instant, positive impact on the consumer, promoting products and brands.
• To pitch creative solutions in response to marketing strategies.
• To oversee and manage the preparation of all finished files that will comply with the correct output specifications.

What you need to be great in this role:

• Looking for someone with 4 to 6 years of experience.
• Expertise in beauty and skincare brands - should have at least 1+ years of relevant experience working with skincare/beauty brands.
• A passion for design and conception.
• You will have a deep affinity with layout, typography and idea-generation.
• Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through to completion.
• Consistent record of taking on, interpreting and delivering design projects within agreed deadlines.
• Attention to detail with the ability to work under own initiative.
• Excellent experience working closely with clients during kick-off.
• Confident in bringing your own innovative ideas and creativity to projects whilst working within a broad range of design guidelines across a variety of design collateral.
• Strong client liaison, with a proven track record of developing strong client relationships.
• Effectively organising and prioritising workloads to manage client delivery whilst simultaneously influencing clients with your own ideas and conceptual creativity.
• Excellent Adobe CS skills.
• Understanding of design principles and an awareness of UX, UI and Responsive Design trends - it is ideal but not essential.
• Working knowledge of After Effects animation is a bonus.
• On- and Offline design experience with an emphasis on Digital.
• Retouching experience and skills to mid-level.
• Experience in creating in-house content.
• Expertise in beauty and BPC brands.
• Confident and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing client environment.
• A passionate and inspiring creative.
• The aptitude to learn new software and programmes efficiently and effectively.
• Self-motivated, working with little supervision.
• Collaborative team player, open-minded – non-political.
• Discrete about all confidential and personal information.
• Driven, proactive, helpful, and enthusiastic team player.
• Passion for and inquisitive about AI and new technologies.
• Understanding and knowledge of AI tools is beneficial, but ability to learn and digest benefits and features of AI tools is critical.

Our values shape everything we do:

• Be Ambitious to succeed
• Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what's possible
• Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
• Be always learning and listening to understand
• Be Results-focused to exceed expectations
• Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.