Senior Visual/Graphic Designer - Global Marketing

About Us:
M+C Saatchi Performance is a global digital media agency, connecting brands to people. We deliver business growth for our clients through effective, measurable, and evolving digital media strategies.

What are we looking for?
A visionary and strategic thinker with a passion for design, storytelling, and innovation.

You are experienced in translating business objectives into compelling visual narratives and bringing creative innovation to marketing campaign ideas. With strong conceptual skills, a sharp eye for detail, and the ability to lead creative projects, you will be a key pillar in ensuring that all marketing team creative outputs align with the agency’s vision and brand.

You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and are adept at managing multiple projects and creative processes simultaneously. Note, this role is not responsible for client work, the position is to lead the creative direction of the agency marketing team and will be responsible for overseeing creative to drive awareness of the agency work, for example, social posts and video (LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram), whitepapers, reports, speaker presentations, award entry videos and entry pdfs.

The Role As a Senior Global Marketing Designer you will work closely with the Global Head of Marketing to execute creatives and support marketing collaterals for the agency. This involves leading and executing creative concepts across multiple markets for the agency marketing team, guiding a team of designers to ensure that the agency marketing collateral maintains a high standard of innovation and excellence.

Key Responsibilities:
- Creative Leadership: Lead concept development and visual storytelling, ensuring alignment with project and agency objectives.
- Ideation & Conceptualization: Drive ideation processes, fostering innovative thinking across the marketing team and ensuring ideas are both creatively and strategically sound.
- Design Execution: Oversee the creation of static and motion-based assets, ensuring top-tier quality and adherence to agency brand guidelines.
- Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with the marketing team and other internal stakeholders including; content marketers, global marketing designers and marketing leads and account teams to develop and execute compelling creative for marketing campaigns such as award entries, social posts, video etc.
- Mentorship & Development: Guide and mentor a small team of marketing designers, fostering a culture of growth, innovation, and excellence.
- Project Management: Oversee multiple projects, ensuring timely delivery, seamless execution, and high-quality output.
- Trend Awareness: Stay ahead of industry trends, new design techniques, and emerging technologies to keep our creative output innovative and fresh.
- Global Coordination: Collaborate with teams in different regions and accommodate meetings across various time zones when necessary.

Qualifications
- 4-6 years of experience in a creative role, with at least 1-2 years in a Senior Design capacity, experience of internal marketing design or brand design experience is a plus.
- Strong conceptual and strategic thinking skills, with a proven ability to translate briefs into impactful visual solutions.
- Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro).
- Experience working across digital formats, (eg social media, video) plus creative for events (presentations, merch, standies etc) and brand campaigns.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage, mentor, and inspire a small team of designers.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple projects with varied deadlines.
- Experience in working with content marketing managers or content producers, account teams, and external vendors to bring creative visions to life.
- Flexibility to accommodate meetings across different time zones as required.

What you can expect from working at M&C Saatchi Performance:
A vast insight into the world of digital marketing and in-depth knowledge across marketing and advertising channels.
-The opportunity to work on regional and global marketing campaigns
- The ability to shape and influence creative direction at a strategic level.
- Exposure to the latest trends and best practices in digital marketing and advertising.
- A supportive and inspiring leadership team that encourages growth and learning.
- Experience working on internal marketing campaigns to grow the agency.
- Insight into the M&C Saatchi Group.

About M+C Saatchi Performance
M+C Saatchi Performance as part of M+C Saatchi Group has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture. As part of this, M+C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).