Designer - Beehive In-house Agency (12-Month FTC)

JOB TITLE: Designer - Beehive In-house Agency (12-Month Secondment)
LOCATION(s): Bristol, Halifax or Edinburgh
GRADE: D
HOURS: Full-time
DURATION: 12-Month Secondment
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in the office.

About this opportunity

Beehive, our in-house creative agency sits within Brands Marketing and Experience, which is part of the Consumer Relationship division. We opened our doors in 2021, and we’re now a 47 strong team of passionate designers, artworkers, copywriters and account & traffic managers.

We work in partnership with communication teams across Brands, Marketing & Experience – working together to get every brief right first time, whether it’s design that makes the complex simple, a personalised one-to-one campaign that drives action or in-branch material that is perfect for the time and place.

A little bit about the role…

• You’ll help our customers to understand how we can support their financial needs through the creation of best-in-class marketing communications.

• Produce high quality design work for assets across a range of channels including email, Internet Banking, Direct Mail, Social and Digital Display.

• Presenting creative work to our comms partners. You’ll be a great storyteller, able to bring your ideas to life when presenting to our senior teams.

• You’ll have strong influencing skills, with the ability to challenge directly in a respectful and collaborative way.

• You’ll work as part of a team often managing competing deadlines - so the ability to deal with ambiguity and stay calm under pressure is essential.  

• Taking ownership of your creative projects and briefs from start to finish

• Ensuring the visual identity of our Lloyds Banking Group brands is consistent at all times

• Working with copywriters to bring simple, tactical direct response communications ideas to life.

• You’ll help to build a brilliant team culture, taking ownership for your career and personal development.

What you’ll need

• Solid agency experience - in house or at an external agency. We're looking for an ideas person and someone who is able to execute their concepts to the highest standard.

• Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Figma. After Effects and any UX/UI experience would be a bonus.

• A customer first mindset, ensuring our creative is designed with accessibility in mind and in line with the principles of Consumer Duty.

• Conceive original, and innovative campaigns, that help to differentiate our Brands and strengthen our relationships with customers.

• Highly driven creative with solid experience in 121, personalised communications and working in a multi disciplined creative team.

• The ability to interpret a creative brief and understand requirements - working with others to execute on brief and to a high standard.

• A strong eye for detail and consistency is essential.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability and gravitas to propose your ideas with a clear and compelling rationale.

• With 14 brands in our portfolio, you’ll know your way around a set of brand guidelines or two – building, applying, interpreting and challenging them.

About Working For Us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today and let’s create something extraordinary together!