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Birmingham, West Midlands
Graphic Design Project Manager
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GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECT MANAGER REQUIRED FOR AN ASAP START!! BASED IN BIRMINGHAM £450-500 PER DAY 6 MONTH CONTRACTOR POSITION My client is a well known high profile business and due to an expansion within their creative team, they are now looking to recruit a Graphic Design Project Manager to join the team on a 6 month contract basis. This is a senior appointment which will be heavily project lead managing relationships with suppliers and ensuring quality of work is delivered on time, to budget and at a high standard. You will support Creative Team colleagues in their different workstreams across our whole output, you will be a point of contact for internal stakeholders and you will collaborate closely with the extended team of external creative agencies to deliver all kinds of on-brand creative communications - both print and digital - for all internal and external channels. This is an extremely high profile position and would require an experienced candidate ideally from within a creative agency fast paced environment. [ The role ] * Provide brand guardianship of, and participate in the design/re-designing of, all forms of visual communication (both print and digital) and supply chain platforms and owned/paid/shared channels. This includes, but is not limited to, working on: graphic design, illustration, infographics, iconography, artworking, photography, videography and animations. * Support Visuals and Design Lead in their conceptual work for flagship projects, events and campaigns as appropriate. * Brief and project manage visual-led Creative Team projects for delivery via external creative agencies and other service providers (eg photographers and videographers). This may include facilitating inter-agency working. Oversee that appropriate - including new - techniques and processes are used to provide best quality of designs and ensure that fees quoted are appropriate and on budget. * Support Creative Team colleagues in their own project management by helping them choose the right design style, graphics, images, and other visual elements according to the objectives of their projects and assessing whether techniques/processes used and fees quoted are appropriate and on budget. * Review creative agencies and other service providers work (both for your own and others creative projects) and work collaboratively to achieve standards to deadlines, on budget. Suggest new ways of improving quality and resolving project issues with our external creative agencies. Undertake any quick fixes of external creative agencies work necessary to meet deadlines. * Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders across different departments to facilitate their own creative projects and ensure on-brand delivery. This includes being point of contact for clients and translating complex or vague requests into professional creative briefs required by external suppliers. * Provide in-house design and artworking skills for urgent or highly sensitive projects as and when required. [ Person and skills required ] * Visual and design communication skills including, but not limited to, graphic design and artworking, ability to brief, assess and direct digital design, photography, film and other digital media. (Ability to do own digital design/motion graphics desirable, though not essential.) * Ability to adhere to a single house style and work within this. * Creative software skills e.g. Adobe Creative Suite, on Apple Mac. * Ability to design but equally able to direct/review/fix others design. * Ability to organise and manage complex projects and production schedules to strict timelines and demanding targets/objectives. * Ability to work largely autonomously, with minimal supervision from Visuals and Design Lead. * Ability to balance project priorities with admin duties. * Significant experience of design management and graphic design/artworking preferably both agency-side and client-side for a large and complex organisation. * Significant experience of complex project management and production schedules, delivering a high volume of high quality creative work across all print and digital channels, to demanding timescales and budgets. * Significant experience of commissioning the full range of graphic design, artworking, photography, film services and digital design services from external providers. If you believe you have the experience and skills for this exciting opportunity please apply ASAP! For more information contact Mike at Proftech Talent.