Graphic Designer

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General Summary

This position is the creative lead at the regional/division level and is responsible for creating and designing proposal documents in response to statements of qualifications, requests for proposals, client presentations, and division-specific marketing and campaign collateral as part of the overall effort to increase market share.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Create or update brochures, marketing collateral, and advertisements for internal and external use.

• Streamline theme concepts and creative design (including mood boards and storyboarding sessions) to ensure efficiency within the department.

• Understand the division’s marketing and business strategy to ensure that it is leading all work products.

• Participate in pursuit kickoff meetings and all color reviews, by understand the key messages and direction of each deliverable to translate this information into compelling visuals and easy-to-understand copy to effectively convey the Company’s message.

• Lead publishing and assist with proposal production to ensure that they company’s high-quality standards are met and proposals are delivered on time.

• Enforce and maintain corporate brand standards in all marketing, communications and graphics; ensure brand standards and application, to maintain consistency of all division marketing-related materials. 

• Collaborate with corporate Marketing and Communications department to review all ads, brochures, videos, and other external collateral materials (non-proposal items) to ensure materials are all within the overall Company’s guidelines.

• Develop and prepare specific presentations and support material for division business development managers, for industry/association presentations, and/or to enhance new project/client opportunities.

• Create, organize and gather permissions for content for video, print, and digital application to contribute content to the company’s online photo and graphics repository. 

• Provide ready-to-publish division content for the Company’s intranet, external website and social media platforms to support the Company’s objectives.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, Fine Art Design, Advertising, Communications, Marketing, or extensive relevant experience required

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years graphic design experience at a mid-size to large professional services organization required

• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere) required

• Compelling portfolio of original design collateral (both digital and print) 

• Prior experience working in the engineering and/or construction industry preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proficiency with all MS Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) 

• Proficiency in multi-media formats, including print, video, and digital platforms

• Attention to detail/accuracy, quick learner and internally motivated to seek out answers, generate ideas, and develop new skills 

• Strong written and oral communication skills to effectively disseminate information and convey concepts, ideas and information to all levels of internal and external customers 

• Ability to set priorities, organize work and work in high production environment while responding quickly and effectively under pressure, changing priorities and tight timelines/deadlines 

• Strong problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to provide creative solutions to real-time challenges with consistent follow through 

• Ability to work well individually, and as part of a team, as well as with other stakeholders 

• Ability to work in creative and structured, process-driven environment

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to operate a computer keyboard. The employee