Overview
Our OEM Client based in Gaydon is seeking a Lead Graphic Designer - Materiality to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position until 31 March 2026. Umbrella Pay Rate: £50.70 per hour.
Responsibilities
* Weekly design reviews for project progress assessments with creative teams, line manager, senior manager and/or directors.
* Weekly 1:1s with the manager to run through task lists and assess tasks completed.
* Contribute to meetings through suggestions, problem solving and design representation.
* Demonstrate excellent creative and presentation skills (including but not limited to Photoshop, Illustrator and Vred) to support visual design communication internal (C&M strategies) and external (launch, retails, customer facing).
* Design creation of Product Family Graphic Strategies to deliver into production vehicles.
* Maintain a high degree of competitors awareness and understanding of product and automotive design with good aesthetic judgement.
* Conduct trend research and source imagery for individual projects.
* Visually communicate complex strategies in digestible and aesthetic presentations.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
* Client Designs and Editions: Create highly creative and unique personalisation artworks to a brief or theme in 2D, to be interpreted in vehicle in 2D and 3D.
* Engage with clients to understand briefs for graphic interpretation and creation.
* Interpret defined client designs for feasible manufacture in various technologies (e.g., Embroidery).
* Understand and interpret a vehicle project or other graphic design project from conception to develop a vehicle theme for graphic creation.
* Create artwork templates to define release files to Suppliers for part manufacture.
* Liaise with SV Bespoke Materiality Designers to execute project design releases timely and in line with project render packs and sampling.
* Collaborate with Personalisation Engineers, Design Quality Team and Suppliers to sample and improve 2D artworks for better physical execution in 3D/physical; multiple releases may be required for improvements due to development processes.
* Work with the Creative Digital Team to visualise artworks in vehicle, digitally/virtually in 3D.
* Organise and archive artworks in compliance with GDPR.
* Program graphic design and strategy; lead and contribute to the SV Bespoke Materiality Graphic Strategy.
* From individual vehicles to strategic graphical strategies, include graphic creation for perforation, embroidery, speaker details, finishers and materiality-led branding – from exterior to seat labels.
* Create or develop a graphic style/language for SV Bespoke Materiality Presentation Material. Create templates for both digital and physical presentations.
* Create visual assets that communicate strategies, from icons to info graphics.
* Support high-profile launch planning projects requiring senior-level visual communication presentations.
* Graphic development contributes to the relationship between materials and form.
* Prepare supplier direction and briefs; support team members to do so.
* Visual communication; act as a key contact for collaborators outside the materiality organisation (e.g., brand design and digital design) and grow cross-discipline relationships.
* Be the benchmark for briefing material and collaborate on creating a visual language for spaces when required.
* Develop communication tools, take-aways and handouts; build a library of references for digital and physical use.
* Develop and simplify key materiality messages, creating exciting and impactful visual communication.
General
* Share best practice with the team and offer direction; delegate for the Manager as required.
* Act as a source of expertise and contribute to discussions in your area.
* Mentor and coach others in graphic design processes and methods.
* Undertake any other work as directed by the Line Manager in connection with the job as may be requested.
Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications
* Advanced skill in Adobe Illustrator.
* High level of creativity and flair.
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to relate to and communicate at all levels.
* Ability to work autonomously to meet objectives.
* Passion for graphic design with up-to-date skills, innovations and trends.
* Proven ability to plan and undertake projects to a strict deadline.
* Ability to move between projects swiftly with a productive mindset.
* Advantageous to hold a formal qualification (degree or equivalent experience).
* Proven creative and presentation skills, including advanced use of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and ability to use internet resources for research.
* Good understanding of product/interior/exterior design, the design industry, and automotive design with good aesthetic judgement.
Desirable Skills, Experience and Qualifications
* Proven ability to adapt to changing strategies and reflect in relevant communication media.
* Additional software skills such as Vred.
* Additional video editing software such as Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects.
* Motion graphics experience relevant to the role.
* Design product knowledge in automotive or another creative field.
Personal Profile
* Essential: A customer-first mindset, easy to do business with, and capable of delivering personalised, transparent, and dependable experiences.
* Independent, results-driven, with tenacity and the ability to deliver operational plans in a complex environment.
* Ability to balance short-term pragmatism with medium-term planning.
* Resilient, enthusiastic, and responsive to new ideas; good communicator of complex ideas.
* Effective and reliable team player, supportive of teammates.
Desirable Personal Profile
* Ability to challenge existing thinking positively while building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.
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