Group Graphic Designer

Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, a FTSE 100, multi-national engineering Group, is looking for an experienced Graphic Designer to join the Group’s Corporate Communications team to support the conception and development of creative communications for a range of audiences utilising both on and offline channels.

The Role

6 month fixed-term contract.

Salary + bonus and company benefits.

Head Office, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

What you will be doing

This is an exciting new role which has the potential to convert to a permanent position in support of the Group’s evolving communications activity. As part of a small central team, working collaboratively with communicators and other creatives across the Group, you will be helping to shape the visual communications landscape for more than 8,200 colleagues worldwide, working to enhance our digital presence as well as supporting Communications-led projects and campaigns.

As Group Graphic Designer you will take the lead in visualising and evolving the creative look and feel for the Spirax-Sarco Engineering (Group) branded materials and communications, to meet the needs of the Corporate Communications team and its internal stakeholders including other Group functions. Responsibilities will include:

• Brand management and evolution
  • Ensure all design wrk is undertaken within the key parameters of the Group’s existing brand guidelines while evolving the creative approach in line with audience and project needs and supporting the development of refreshed brand guidelines

• Graphic Design
  • Develp design solutions to support a range of communications objectives for internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to:
    • Social Media, Website and Intranet touts, banners and animations
    • Online and interactive documents including magazines, brochures, reports
    • Digital signage and online campaigns
    • PowerPoint Presentations
    • Conceptual brand development for projects and initiatives
    • Templates and toolkits
    • Printed materials, including brochures, posters, leaflets, merchandise

• Project management
  • Develp and maintain an accessible and searchable key asset library containing images, logos, guidelines, elements, templates and re-usable content
  • Prvide briefs for photography commissions, analyse contact sheets, upload images, input tagging and meta-data, seek approvals as appropriate
  • Manage the team’s relatinship and license requirements with online resource providers

This will be a hybrid home and office-based role, with an occasional requirement for travel within the UK and internationally.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for someone with the following qualities and experience:

• Significant related creative design experience from working in-house or within an agency
• Ability to combine blue sky creative development with excellent attention to detail
• Capability across the design spectrum from concept development to technical preparation for online and print
• Fully conversant with the full Adobe Creative Suite
• Good Microsoft Office skills including excellent PowerPoint skills
• Highly organised, able to prioritise tasks and manage time to ensure delivery to deadlines
• Resourceful, adaptable and creative, with the ability to come up with innovative ideas and remain calm under pressure
• Acts with integrity at all times, seeks and acts on feedback, proactive at identifying opportunities for personal and professional development

Why work for us

As an employee of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc you will become part of a highly successful and growing business with strong corporate values and a commitment to operating sustainably.

You will receive: a competitive salary (plus discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent employee benefits including a generous 27 day holiday allowance (before public holidays), an entitlement to up to three days of paid volunteering leave per year, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced Group personal pension plan, life assurance, enhanced maternity pay, childcare vouchers, cycle scheme, free onsite parking and access to a personal discounts portal.

Spirax Sarco Engineering is committed to creating an inclusive working environment where the full diversity of our people can thrive. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

If this is a position that interests you, and you feel you have the experience, qualifications and attributes required, please apply.

About Spirax‐Sarco Engineering plc

Spirax‐Sarco Engineering plc is a thermal energy management and niche pumping specialist. It comprises three world‐leading businesses: Steam Specialties, for the control and management of steam; Electric Thermal Solutions, for advanced electrical process heating and temperature management solutions; and Watson-Marlow, for peristaltic pumping and associated fluid path technologies. The Steam Specialties and Electric Thermal Solutions businesses provide a broad range of fluid control and electrical process heating products, engineered packages, site services and systems expertise for a diverse range of industrial and institutional customers. Both businesses help their end users to improve production efficiency, meet their environmental sustainability targets, improve product quality and enhance the safety of their operations. Watson‐Marlow provides solutions for a wide variety of demanding fluid path applications with highly accurate, controllable and virtually maintenance-free pumps and associated technologies.

The Group is headquartered in Cheltenham, UK, has strategically located manufacturing plants around the world and employs more than 8,200 people, including almost 2,000 direct sales and service engineers. The Company’s shares have been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1959 (symbol: SPX) and it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 and the FTSE4Good Indexes.

Further information can be found at www.spiraxsarcoengineering.com

At Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, we’re passionate about creating inclusive workplaces where everyone can be themselves and achieve their best. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, age, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and everything that makes us unique. We want the best people to join us and make their difference, so we will always consider requests for flexible working (such as full-time, part-time, occasional home-working, select days and job sharing).