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JOB TITLE: Graphic & Motion Designer

SALARY: £56,421 - £74,290

LOCATION(S): London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax, Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least

two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

Please note, in order to be considered for this opportunity, you will need to attach or share a link to a high quality portfolio of work.

The in-house Creative Studio team brings communications to life using best-in-class innovation, project management, script/copywriting, graphic design, film production, and motion graphics. Over the last 18 months we’ve built a strong reputation for quality and are used and deployed for all high-profile communications internally and externally, i.e. the moments that matter.

About this opportunity

The Creative Studio provides an advisory service to GCA Partner and Channel Teams in monitoring quality of creative, insight and output. This includes creative assets that are on brand, of high-quality and utilise best-practice for the objective and channel.

The Graphic and Motion Designer will support Lloyds Banking Group’s communications objectives internally and externally through the creation of innovative graphic design and video-based content, you will be part of a highly skilled team of creative professionals.

Reporting into the Creative Lead, you will work closely with the Production Manager, Creative Lead and Film Lead, plus a team of designers, videographers, motion graphics specialists and more!

Responsibilities

• You'll be as comfortable with design as you are with motion graphics and able to interpret data to develop and produce high-end design and 2D and 3D graphics that take complexity and make content that is relatable.

• With a proven understanding of editing, pacing, and composition; you'll build purposeful assets for our internal and external audiences. Comfortable designing a dramatic moving backdrop for a company event, or a short 2D graphic summarising a fintech innovation. Comfortable working on a variety of different types of projects such as an infographic for a presentation, a suite of assets for social media, or exhibition material for a corporate event.

• You’ll be responsible for bringing to life concepts that showcase the Group’s purpose. With an understanding of branding, typography, layout and composition.

• You’ll be a brand champion, manage client expectations, meet deadlines and bring idea to life!

• You'll be experienced in contributing to the delivery of creative responses to briefs that take into account brand guidelines, manage expectations, logistics and timelines. With the ability to take those ideas and practically bring them to life through graphic design, 2D and 3D imagery.

• A collaborative approach, working closely with the team to interpret, develop, and implement first class, on-brand creative from briefs supplied by partners across all levels

• Experience crafting for multi-channel campaigns, seeing projects through from development to launch, with a strong understanding of our owned channel’s identity and content performance

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Challenges and interrogates constructively to make sure content and campaigns have clear strategic direction, objectives and impact.

• Continuously develops and grows by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities

• Establishes and maintains effective networks of contacts across the communications job family

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

• Demonstrate a high level of proficiency in industry design (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) and motion (After Effects - essential, Cinema 4D - advantageous) tools.

• Proficiency in visual design, editorial, typography, digital design, social media, creative thinking, branding identity, storyboarding, art direction

• Develop and execute outstanding motion graphic content from briefs supplied by our stakeholders in GCA and Group

• Conceptualising, animating and executing projects from treatment to final production

• A collaborative approach, working closely with the team to deliver campaigns

• Great communication skills, able to convey succinctly the rationale behind their creative choices

• Ability to apply audio mixing, editing to motion graphics

• A good understanding of all channel types and associated formats, along with the appetite to quickly learn and discover requirements of other specific digital systems (e.g. SharePoint Online, Social Media, Digital)

• Meticulous attention to detail, with excellent organisational skills and highly proficient in spelling and grammar

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Agency or in-house creative team experience

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

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous

parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.