Overview
We're looking for a talented Brand & Design Manager with strong creative skills to join our ambitious and growing national law firm. This is a new and pivotal role for someone who combines design abilities with strategic brand thinking. The role is twofold: you will be our brand guardian, ensuring our visual identity is consistent and compelling while helping to elevate our brand across every touchpoint, and you will be responsible for creating, maintaining and managing our design assets and outputs.
You'll report to the Head of Marketing & Communications and work closely with colleagues across marketing, BD, digital, internal comms and HR. You’ll also be the main contact for our creative agencies, ensuring external partners deliver to the highest standard. You’ll play a vital role in telling our story and helping us stand out, ensuring every interaction with the firm feels consistent, creative and refreshingly human.
Be our brand guardian, managing and developing the brand for the Foot Anstey Group (see below) including our brand guidelines, tone of voice and visual identity across all channels. Evolve and elevate the brand to keep it relevant, innovative, and distinctive within the industry. Champion brand awareness and engagement internally, delivering training and guidance on brand and templates. Manage agency relationships across brand, merchandise, video and creative partnerships. Collaborate in brainstorming sessions, bringing creative ideas that cut through and resonate with clients, colleagues, and wider audiences. Ensure consistency by maintaining our brand assets and templates as well as delivering our design outputs.
Create and design engaging assets for a wide range of platforms, including: Website and digital channels; Social media content; Marketing collateral and pitch templates; PowerPoint and presentation decks; Events branding, stands, and merchandise; Email marketing campaigns; Print and publications; (Ideally) video and animation - or manage external suppliers to deliver them. Manage the firm09s people photography process and design asset management / stock imagery process and organisation.
Responsibilities
* Develop and steward the brand across channels, ensuring consistency and visual identity alignment.
* Design and produce assets for websites, digital channels, social media, marketing collateral, pitches, presentations, events, email campaigns, print and publications.
* Lead and manage relationships with external agencies and suppliers (brand, merchandise, video, creative partnerships).
* Collaborate in creative sessions to generate ideas that resonate with clients, colleagues, and wider audiences.
* Maintain brand assets, templates, and design outputs; ensure brand guidelines and tone of voice are applied.
* Oversee people photography process and stock imagery management.
Experience & Skills
* At least 5 years' experience as a designer/brand creative.
* Strong portfolio showing versatility across multiple platforms and channels.
* Strong knowledge of graphic design principles (grids, paragraph/character styles, templates); Adobe Creative Cloud; Canva.
* Experience with visual identity systems and brand guidelines; infographic and diagram design; bid/pitch document creation; presentation design; event branding; digital design best practices.
Bonus Skills
* Motion graphics and video production (advantageous).
* UI/UX design and prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch).
About Foot Anstey
At Foot Anstey, we are committed to making a difference for our people, our clients, and society. We offer an ambitious growth strategy, a client base spanning household names, thriving startups, and ambitious enterprises, and a culture built on being refreshingly human, entrepreneurial, inclusive and collaborative. We have a strong focus on responsible business with a commitment to sustainability and giving back to our communities. We provide comprehensive professional development and training to support your goals.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your professional growth and personal wellbeing, including:
* Competitive salary and performance-linked bonus.
* Enhanced parental leave policies.
* Private healthcare and wellbeing initiatives (e.g., mental health support, gym memberships).
* An open, flexible working environment.
Find out more about our benefits and work environment here Life at Foot Anstey | Foot Anstey
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