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 coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions.

The Marex Graduate Programme offers a transformative journey tailored to empower and support Analysts. It includes a ‘Backpack to Briefcase’ bootcamp, workshops covering behavioural, cognitive skills, technical understanding, and business awareness, as well as informal insight events hosted by senior Marex Leaders.

Department Description: Marex Technology delivers efficiency, scalability, and security for the business. The Design team focuses on the strategy, design, and production of high-quality and consistent creative output across the Marex group, including brand, websites, and sales and marketing collateral.

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

Overall Responsibilities:

• Production of business documents for sales teams, including brochures, events, and social media.
• Managing and contributing to 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.
• Adhering to the operational risk framework for your role.
• Demonstrating the highest level standards of integrity and conduct.
• Complying with the FCA’s Code of Conduct.
• Reporting any breaches of policy to Compliance and/or your supervisor.
• Escalating risk events immediately.
• Providing input to risk management processes as required.

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

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.
• Interest in motion design and video content production.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working in a regulated environment.
• Academic or placement projects involving product or interface design.
• Any internship or work placement in a product company, fintech, or technology environment.
• Personal or side projects that show initiative.
• Familiarity with working inside or alongside a design system.

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.
• A keen eye for typography.
• Strategic thinking about design.
• Collaborative team player, approachable, and self-efficient.
• Demonstrates curiosity and resilience in a fast-paced environment.
• Excels at building relationships and networking.
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility.

Company Values:

• Respect: Clients are at the heart of our business.
• Integrity: Doing business the right way is the only way.
• Collaborative: We work in teams with open communication.
• Developing our People: Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage.
• Adaptable and Nimble: Our size and flexibility is an advantage.

Conduct Rules:

• Act with integrity.
• Act with due skill, care, and diligence.
• Be open and cooperative with regulators.
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers.
• Observe proper standard of market conduct.
• 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.