Senior Visual Designer (6 month Fixed Term Contract)
Please note that this role is a 6-month, fixed term contract, covering one of our colleagues whilst they are away on parental leave. We follow a hybrid approach to work, spending 2-days a week in-person in our offices. This role can be based in either our Manchester or Ewloe hubs, so suited to someone based in the North West / Cheshire / North Wales area. To help review your application, please include a folio link (or similar), showcasing your best and most relevant work. ABOUT US Every day, we push beyond expectations to help millions of people save money, at a time when it’s never mattered more. Through MoneySuperMarket, MoneySavingExpert, Quidco and our B2B partnerships we supply products to more than 24 million unique monthly visitors, helping UK households to save billions of pounds a year. Can you tell this is something we’re exceptionally proud of! Creative, collaborative, ambitious – it’s hard work. But what makes it worth it? Leaving work knowing we’ve made a difference to our customers, users, and to each other. Put our distinct brands together with our dedicated colleagues and you’ve got a workplace with lots of personality. We’re open-minded, diverse, and love our differences. Everyone plays a part, and comes together to work hard, go beyond, and make sure everyone feels they belong. Our Product team is growing, and we’re hiring for an experienced creative designer who can join our creative design team. Join us to start going beyond comparison. INSIGHT INTO THE ROLE We are looking for a versatile Mid to Senior Creative Designer to join our in-house creative team. You will have the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of varied design requests across all our brands, ranging from ideation to artwork delivery. You’ll be tasked with creating engaging on-brand assets to deliver exceptional creative solutions on strategic initiatives across Product and Marketing. Additionally, you will contribute to the setting of the creative strategy to ensure exceptional end-to-end customer experiences. As a Creative Designer, you’ll be the one to shape the visual aspects of all our digital touchpoints, including supporting our CRM campaigns, maintaining a high quality of output through the team and ensuring brand consistency across all customer touch points. We utilise our brand design system to deliver a consistent and coherent design language, increasing efficiencies for designers and ensuring our customers have a coherent brand experience through our visual and verbal language. Are you someone who thrives on working in a dynamic environment and thinking on your feet? If you enjoy facing diverse challenges every day, then this could be the place for you! HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR DAY Produce digital assets across a wide range of formats, display, rich media, in app design, partnerships Build new and adapt existing email templates and campaigns sought at prospects and current members to build-ready stage. Create, deliver and maintain brand guidelines to ensure consistency across our Group Brands Provide design solutions for the website and across multiple campaigns Work closely with the Creative Design Lead to ensure creative development is aligned and evolves alongside the service look and feel Taking wireframes developed by the internal Product design team to develop apply quality Creative designs for the website Working with various stakeholders such as Product Managers, Product designers and Content Writers to deliver designs that can be used for customer research prototypes and support our test and learn approach Manage design assets within the Design System to ensure consistent use and approach WHAT VALUE YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE Excellent practical design skills including layout, colour, typography & responsive design demonstrated through strong design portfolio Drawing/sketching skills for ‘scamping’ ideas and mockups Strong attention to detail Time management and project management awareness for on-going design projects Experience of using Adobe Creative suite Experience of using Figma Comfortable with the idea of being an internal advocate of design and the visual identity for our Group Creative mindset, comfortable sketching ideas and concepts or brainstorming marketing ideas on paper It would help, but is not essential, that you have: Knowledge and awareness of how to build web pages using HTML and CSS Knowledge of animation & motion specifically when designing for interaction Experience of using Notion & other tools for providing design documentation Experience and knowledge of Agile web development process Experience and knowledge of user testing designs & interactions with customers WHAT REWARDS ARE ON OFFER 27 days holiday + bank holidays Pension up to 6% employer contribution Bonus scheme Enhanced shared parental leave - 6 months paid for both parents Digital Doctor on demand Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per year Financial coaching Mental health platform access HOW WE’LL INVEST IN YOU We’re invested in your development. Expect mentorship, training, and opportunities to expand your skill set, including access to your own individual LinkedIn Learning license with access to over 16,000 courses. INTERVIEW PROCESS 1. 30mins call to run through your experience and the role 2. a 60mins interview, with questions focused on the responsibilities of the role At MONY Group, we believe in the strength of diversity and see inclusion as a strategic advantage. Our values guide us in creating a workplace where fairness and equity is a reality for all. We’re committed to minimising systemic bias and creating a level playing field for all candidates. Contact us for reasonable accommodations in the application process, no need to disclose your disability or condition, just specify your needs. Unsure what to ask for? We can guide you through available accommodations. We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know more before applying such as more on hybrid working, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know, and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Tom at tom.wood@monygroup.com We believe that success isn’t solely defined by ticking boxes on a skills checklist. We encourage your application, so we can discover your skills and experience that will help you succeed in this role. Here at MONY Group, we help millions of households save money. Through our amazing brands, Moneysupermarket.com, MoneySavingExpert.com, Quidco, TravelSupermarket and DecisionTech, we help people manage, save, grow, and take control of their money through free, easy-to-use online tools and services. With hundreds of brilliant colleagues working together, and with the widest range of providers, we push beyond expectations to give our customers the choice they deserve, help providers find a cost effective route to the market, and save people time and money – every day.