Sport & Entertainment - Integrated Designer

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment creates change for brands through people's passions. As the world's leading passion-marketing agency, we're a mixed bag of sports-loving, culture-seeking, trend-hunting, creative communications experts. We span the spectrum of passion-marketing, from sport, film and entertainment, to style, food and wellness - and every emerging and niche trend in between.

Our work reflects the new ways audiences cultivate their passions, consume media and share stories by delivering integrated communications campaigns including but not limited to sponsorship, experiential, PR, social and content.

**The Opportunity**:
As an Integrated Designer you will dream up and execute ideas to support strategy, creative, partnerships and communications teams. The role will vary from idea generation, to implementation and delivery. Your role will have two focus areas including creativity and craft. Your creativity will be through how you think, how you answer briefs and how you relay those ideas to colleagues and clients. Your craft will relate to evolving your design skills to better the overall end product and outputs.

**A snapshot of what you'll do**:

- Generate strategically sound design and content ideas that challenge the status quo whilst answering the brief.
- Create tactics that bring the idea to life across earned and owned channels including PR, social media, owned channels and activations.
- Effectively create design assets to support agency functions from concept stage to production
- Concept visualisations for campaigns such as photoshop mock-ups.
- Work closely with Art Directors and Copywriters to bring the vision of their ideas to life.
- Be the owner of our internal S&E Agency brand guidelines, constantly perfecting and building upon them to ensure our brand image is industry leading and culturally relevant. We are at the forefront of culture, so we need to ensure we look, feel and sound that way too.
- Plus much more

**Skills & Attributions**:

- Strategic and expert understanding of PR, publicity, news generation, influencers and social
- Strong understanding of marcomms; events & experiential; digital; partnerships
- Natural ability to identify, develop and nurture ideas for clients
- Ability to understand and articulate client needs and requirements to scope opportunities
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Able to prioritise tasks based on relative importance and urgency
- Excellent attention to detail
- Enthusiastic for passion based marketing focusing in on influencing culture

**Your ideal experience**:

- Highly skilled in Adobe CC Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
- Skilled in Animate and/or After Effects
- Knowledge of and experience in print layout, pre-press & the digital design process
- An understanding of web standards, user experience, general design skills & typography.
- Knowledge of the latest design industry trends, techniques and technologies.
- Degree qualified in Graphic Design / Visual Communications

**What WE value MOST**:

- Walk in different worlds
- Make Uncommon Sense
- Run Towards the Fire (except if there is an actual fire when we run away from it)
- Roll as one
- Be excellent to each other

**Best Bits About Working With Us**:
Our big benefits fuel our big ambitions. We're here to support and encourage our people at every turn. Our commitment to your individual needs stems from our diverse Flexible Flexibility work approach, flexing to how you want to work and how you want to take your leave. You'll be saying "hello holidays" with our flexible public holidays, summer half Friday's and even extra leave for taking your leave. And, to further our support to you, Family First, Health and Wellness paid leave are on offer, along with our Work From Anywhere in the world initiative (so you can stay connected across the globe). Plus, you can join our inclusive community led networks, supporting things you care about and your cultural and social wellbeing.

WHAT ARE YOUR BIG AMBITIONS?

We'd love to hear what your ambitions are and how we can help you realise them with us

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