Implementation Designer

If you are passionate about playing a key role in the success of a global design agency, we want to hear from you

Our client is a well-established brand in the Design Services Industry. Founded in 1986 in London, UK, they have organically grown Studios in Amsterdam, Singapore, New York, and Shanghai, and there are now over 400 people working collaboratively around the world. They are looking for a passionate and driven
**Implementation Designer **to join their team.

This is an exciting opportunity to expand your skillset, and achieve job satisfaction and work-life balance.

**The person:
A number of key characteristics and behaviors form our definition of a first-class Senior Implementation Designer, as follows:

- Ability to deliver high creative standards in line with the brief in an effective and efficient manner.
- Excellent understanding of the design process.
- A good understanding of artwork build.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Highly organized with great multi-tasking abilities.
- Team player.
- Approachable and friendly.
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Working well in stressful situations.
- Open to new ideas and able to work in genuine partnership with colleagues and clients.
- Attitude: Pro-active, dedicated, committed, willing to go the extra mile, flexible, resourceful, and open-minded.

In summary, acting as a creative entrepreneur and putting our client's business at the heart of what we do.

**Why the job exists:
**_Externally:

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- To ensure that clients are impressed with our ability to manage the later design stages in an effective and efficient manner, resulting in the highest levels of client satisfaction and ultimately the growth of our business.

**_Internally:

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- To deliver the later design stages to a high creative standard in an effective and efficient manner.
- To enforce design freeze and enable a smooth transition from design to artwork.
- To proactively manage the design stages that relate to a large rollout of SKUs.
- To act as Brand Guardian by ensuring consistency across the range of SKUs.

**What the job covers:
- To be responsible and ensure that the highest possible quality and consistency of later stage design is achieved.
- To ‘bring on’ junior members of the team and act as a mentor in the area of implementation design.
- To ensure the financial efficiency of your projects in liaison with the appropriate creative lead.
- To provide senior support and leadership for the team as and when required.

**Responsibilities:
**_Implementation design
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- To have ownership of projects and to ensure that all your work is on brief.
- To deliver the later design stages at a high creative standard in an effective and cost-efficient manner at all times.
- To liaise regularly with Client Service and Production leads to ensure the later design stages are set to the correct technical specifications and cutter guides prior to starting the project.
- To liaise regularly with the Production team to ensure that the finalized design route is achievable in print.
- In liaison with the production team enforce the design freeze.
- To proactively manage the design stages that relate to the large rollout of SKUs, keeping the creative lead and client servicing updated on the status of the project at all times.
- To attend photographic and illustration briefing meetings when necessitated by project complexity.
- To attend internal pre-production meetings for your projects.
- To ensure that a high level of attention to detail is maintained by yourself and by the more junior members of the team.
- To mentor and support junior members of the team to ensure they can develop and learn.
- To help with the managing of freelancers and external resources that might be utilized to support your work streams.
- To work with enthusiasm, passion, and commitment.

**_Financial management
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- Provide input to budgets and timescales at the outset of the project/ phase of work.
- Be responsible for the efficient management of the design budget for all your projects at all stages.

**_General
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- To ensure that your projects follow company ISO procedures on archiving (digital and hard copy files).
- To have a sound knowledge of established systems and working practices, work within them and contribute to the continued improvement of best practices.

**Reporting and communication structure:
- The Senior Implementation Designer reports to the team’s Executive Creative Director and communicates with the design and client servicing team assigned to the project.
- Regular liaison with the artwork team and the Production Project Managers to ensure a smooth transition from design to artwork.

**Training:
- Training as defined during your Performance Review & Development Review.
- Performance review and personal development:

- By the allocated Creative Director on the basis of: _
- High level of design implementation standards.
- Ensuring ownership and consistency acro