Design Lead

**Job Title**: Design Lead

**Location**:Singapore

**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE**:
This is a hybrid role that will be split between design and client management.

This role will report into the General Manager for everything relating to the overall account and client.

You will be leading an account which requires a keen eye for digital and offline design including social media, E-commerce, creative ideation, art-working and offline design collateral.

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**:
**Role Responsibilities**:

- To be responsible for the full creative lifecycle from concept to execution
- To work actively with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of the highest level of client service - from brief, creative, design and production
- To work closely with clients to create strong concepts from the initial briefing
- To develop a deep understanding of target audiences and the clients marketing strategy to deliver high quality results that have an instant, positive impact on the consumer, promoting the product or brand
- To pitch creative solutions in response to marketing strategies
- To oversee and manage the preparation of all finished artwork files that will comply with the correct output specifications
- To ensure all design work adheres to the best practises of digital and social trends and requirements
- Supporting with BAU Design work
- Quality control
- Client relations, main point of contact on-site, managing day to day relationships with key stakeholder
- Work with key clients to deliver the following types of projects:

- On-site design updates (mostly posters, icons, logos and presentation slides)
- Support on visual identity and tone of voice for campaign materials including OOH, product brochures, infographics, animated content, etc.
- Merchandise design and production
- Digital and social media specific like website and Facebook
- Support on one-off projects (e.g. internal communications, events, etc.)
- Creating monthly MI reports and providing insight into account strategy

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE**:
**Person specification and key skills**
- To be self-motivated, working with little supervision, communicating clearly with a line manager about own development needs.
- Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships.
- Ability to effectively manage people through leadership and mentoring.
- The ability to manage and filter workflow as well as organise and prioritise workloads to maximise productivity
- Ability to take and challenge a client's brief, help them through the creative process.
- Some exposure and knowledge of account management
- Ability to pull weekly financial figures.
- Experience of providing clear and accurate Management information.
- Creative ability with strong adobe CS (InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop)
- Ability to manage resource not only in terms of the onsite team but regular additional resource for peaks and projects
- Comfortable managing large design projects
- Responsible for all billing on the account
- Working knowledge of digital design and its requirements is a benefit.

**Role-specific skills, knowledge and experience**

Essential:

- Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships
- Campaign ideation experience is required
- Experience in financial and insurance industry preferred
- Experience of developing creative ideas and be confident presenting these to the client
- Strong Adobe CS (InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator)
- Relevant design/creative/management experience
- Relevant knowledge across production, print and digital
- Confident and articulate, with the ability to voice and share ideas and opinions both internally and with clients.
- Great team player with a client-centric focus and possess the ability to build strong and effective working relationships
- The drive to actively seek out opportunities for the account
- Confident in your own abilities and be able to proactively influence clients and manage their expectation

**A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY**:
Established in 2004, we are the first and only company to design, build and run bespoke in-house agencies and ecosystems for brands. Today, we create work that delivers business growth, fame and purpose for over 200 clients in 46 countries and counting.

Our unique model moves at the speed of modern business to drive change from the inside out; working smarter to make our clients' money go further, and helping them build better solutions, systems and brands. Client solutions include Unilever's U-Studio (a platform used by almost three-quarters of Unilever's brands globally), adidas' off-shore hub and PepsiCo's global digital team.

In 2020 we were ranked #1 in Adweek's Fastest Growing list (US) and featured in The Drum's Honours List of the best b