Senior Designer

Wheatley Solutions

Job title: Senior Designer

Salary: £48,660- £52,478 per annum (SCP 39-42)

Contract: Temporary until 20 January 2026, linked to Maternity leave

Work pattern: 35 hours per week, worked Monday to Friday

Location: Agile home-based with travel requirements to local areas as well as Group offices as required

Do you want to work with a values-driven organisation that makes a difference to people’s lives? Wheatley has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Designer to join its award-winning Communications and Marketing team.

About the role

The role involves maintaining and developing Wheatley Group’s brands. As the lead creative, the senior designer will have an exceptional ability to understand briefs and work with brand guidelines to develop creative proposals, delivering campaigns, and promotional and marketing materials for Wheatley Group and its subsidiaries, across all print and digital applications. Your work stream will include presentation of conceptual ideas through to artworking outputs. You will actively manage outsourced creatives, illustrators, photographers, printers etc. as necessary, to ensure projects are on brand, delivered to deadlines and budgets are met.

The overall aim of this role is to provide a consistent, professional in-house design service for a diverse and dynamic Group.

Who are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will be working at senior designer level. Creativity and innovative thinking will be key skills you possess, and you will thrive on generating viable, new approaches and solutions aligned with a full understanding of corporate positioning and branding.  Part of the marketing team, you will have a flair for effectively communicating marketing messages to target markets internally and externally. Our ideal candidate will possess great attention to detail and work in a conscientious, consistent and thorough manner.

The benefits we offer

We offer a sector-leading benefits package.

The successful candidate will receive:

• a rewarding career with a competitive salary;
• access to a contributory pension scheme;
• excellent leave entitlements;
• enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave;
• contributions towards dental, optical, driving lessons and more; 
• access to staff inclusion networks promoting an inclusive workplace; and
• 24/7 access to our employee assistance programme.

Committed to inclusion

At Wheatley, are always looking to improve diversity within our teams. We want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute their best work and achieve their full potential. 

We actively celebrate our individual differences and recognise the collective strength this brings our organisation. It’s important our teams represent the communities we serve, and we welcome applications from any under-represented groups.

Closing date: Monday 06 January 2025 at 5pm 

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