Senior Creative Designer, Associate Director

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.   The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.   EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.  

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Senior Creative Designer, Associate Director

 

Our Sales function brings together business, sector, and account knowledge along with EY competencies and solutions to meet unique client needs. The Sales & Strategic Pursuits Organization shapes and drives an integrated growth strategy across EY's largest accounts, industry sectors, solutions, and services, while demonstrating and achieving market leadership through a client centric culture.

 

The opportunity

The Senior Creative Designer is responsible for supporting the firm’s most high-value, strategic deals across the following scope of responsibilities:

• Developing leading practice pursuit design, driving process consistency, and identifying synergies in collateral development.
• Develop and communicate complex ideas, solutions, and value propositions through compelling visual, cohesive, and persuasive narratives that resonate with clients and effectively convey the team's strategy.
• Collaborate and stretch team’s thinking to integrate design elements seamlessly into proposals and materials, incorporating user-centered design principles, ensuring that the design not only is professional and visually appealing but also enhances the overall user experience and engagement approach.
• Ensure design work across all design assets remains consistent with the company's branding identity, while also tailoring visuals to resonate with the specific needs and preferences of client or industry.
• Infuse current design and industry trends, design techniques, and emerging technologies to bring fresh and innovative design ideas, enhancing the overall quality and impact of presentations and materials.
• Be a beacon of pursuit excellence, bringing vast knowledge, tools, and resources from across the firm and their own professional experience to proactively deliver creative design assets progressing the pursuit towards a winning outcome.
• Focus on the Quality and Risk Management of their work and resource management of opportunities by leveraging their pool of offshore designers.
• Responsible for the performance and resource management of a team of pursuit designers (both onshore and offshore) and for elevating team building, mentorship and inspire team members on their work and performance.
• Conceive and deliver strategic design initiatives that have a significant impact on the firm’s ability to win more, win bigger and win better.

 

Your key responsibilities

Strategic development: Creative strategy that effectively convey and enhance EY’s win themes, solution and offering.

• Increase the firm’s ability to win more through the upskilling of design team members &/or the implementation of strategic design support processes, tools and enablers
• Oversee the strategy, methodology, and deployment plans for pursuit designs in conjunction with the Deal Manager and Deal Leader
• Cascade best practices, process consistency and synergies across the entire Center of Excellence (COE)
• Instill Exceptional Client Service (ECS) principles into the end-to-end COE process
• Translate firm-wide and BD strategic priorities within COE pursuit design function
• Develop the visual design strategy that supports our win strategy and the client’s requirements using a variety of design tools and software.
• Contribute to overall win strategy by developing innovative visuals, presentations and graphics which resonate with the client’s business issues, culture, industry, and market position.
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