Designer

 

Designer- job post

PEI Media

London

Job details

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

We at PEI Group are looking for a Designer to join our growing design team and portfolio of magazines and websites.

As part of the design team, you will be working across multiple B2B brands, collaborating with editors, researchers and writers to capture creative requirements and constantly deliver on-brand monthly magazine pages and web content.

PEI Group's audience are the private equity and venture capital industries, and our content is a mix of news insights, in-depth cover stories, analysis, thought leadership and statistics, all of which you will be tasked with delivering compelling visual narratives.

We are looking for a talented Designer who is adaptable and eager to further their design skills, stretch themselves technically and wow our readers with innovative magazine covers, layouts, business graphics together with bespoke and re-purposed online content.

Your main responsibilities include;

• Working across multiple B2B brands with demanding deadlines
• Collaborating with editors, researchers and writers to capture stories, analysis, thought leadership and statistics to deliver compelling visual narratives.
• Further developing your design skills to meet the needs of the business and the brands
• Working with InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects (and other Adobe Cs applications if required) you will be design to capture the attention of our readers and subscribers
• Contribute to design-led thinking across editorial/special projects
• Work with the team to develop other aspects of design using creative and production tools old and new
• Work with the Production Team to ensure design deadlines are me
• Communicate regularly and effectively with Production and Special Reports teams regarding all editorial/sponsored design projects.
• Participate actively in editorial planning and production meetings.
• Working on data visualisations
• Work collaboratively to develop designs for editorial/special projects

Who we are:

PEI Group is a subscriber-focused business intelligence company. With our multi-talented global team of over 300 people, spread across EMEA, USA & Asia, our purpose is to inform and connect investment professionals across global, specialised markets. We identify specific high growth, high value investment sectors and themes where deep insight, strong market relationships and active capital flows are critical for success.

What we do:

PEI Group provides industry-leading journalism, data, and market insight to subscribing clients via a wide portfolio of specialist brands supported by our robust and scalable digital publishing, analytics, and database platform.

We also track the firms and individuals who shape markets and bring client-communities together to enable knowledge sharing, profile building and relationship development through professional networks and events.

Wherever our markets are active – in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, London and elsewhere – PEI is hard at work examining crucial market forces and shifting investment themes, identifying active investors and their capital allocations, and scanning ahead for regulatory changes, new compliance requirements and other risk factors.

Requirements

Experience & Skills

• Minimum of one years' design experience in B2B publishing. You will be working on both printed material and online creative in a wide variety of websites, emails and social media
• Excellent and advance working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, in particular InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects.
• Use and working knowledge of third-party picture libraries ie Getty Images.
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Self-motivated and willing to take responsibility.
• Comfortable operating in a professional working environment where regular feedback is provided.
• Highly adaptable working or learning new software systems
• A demonstrable portfolio of creative work in print and digital media, plus experience of illustrating would be an advantage

Personal Characteristics

• Personable, pro-active and persuasive when pitching creative work.
• Ability to work collaboratively with the other members of the team and other departments.
• Self-motivated and willing to take responsibility.
• Comfortable operating in a professional working environment where regular feedback is provided.
• Resilient under pressure and hit key deadlines.
• Desire to be part of a dynamic business with high growth expectations.
• Highly goal-focused and motivated by achieving high personal standards in all aspects of work – ambitious to meet own personal and organisational goals
• Keen to stretch self and develop career at PEI

We strive to ensure that opportunities to work and develop at PEI Group are fair, inclusive, and open to all. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other equality characteristic

PEI Group supports flexible working arrangements, and we welcome career returners.

Please note that currently we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Benefits

25 days annual leave (+8 bank holidays)

You deserve a break and are entitled to 25 days paid annual leave in addition to the 8 public/bank holidays. Long Service award PEI offer a scheme to increase an employee's holiday allowance according to length of service. After 2 years of service, you will receive an additional day’s annual leave, you will receive an extra day up to 4 years of service, taking you 28 days annual leave.

Holiday-Flex

Any permanent employee of PEI can buy from or sell PEI up to three holiday days. The value is calculated as 1/260th of the employee's current annual basic salary.

Flexible working policy

We know how busy life can get and believe it is very important to have a good work-life balance. That is why we have a comprehensive Flexible working policy so you can best fit work into your life.

4 days volunteer leave per year

Volunteer leave at PEI offers employees the option of taking 4 working days per year (fully paid) to give back to a charitable cause of their choice.

Life Cover

The Company provides you with life cover of 4 times your “basic salary”, as long as you are on a permanent contract with PEI.

Free access to Employee Assistance programme

The Company provides staff with access to a confidential employee assistance programme (EAP), which is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The EAP provides access to trained experts either via the phone or on a face-to-face basis.

Employee Referral scheme

We offer incentives for successfully recommending someone new into the business. If you make a recommendation for a vacancy, you will be eligible for a £2,000 bonus.

Private Medical Insurance

After successful completion of your probation period, PEI offer Private Medical Insurance via BUPA as a free benefit to you, but it is taxable.

4.5% matched pension contribution

After three consecutive years’ in the pension scheme with PEI, employees will have the opportunity to have any increased pension contributions (above 4.5%), matched by the business up to 5%.

Cycle to work scheme

After successful completion of your probation period, PEI will work with you to ensure that the loan of a bicycle can be treated as a tax free benefit, enabling you to cycle to and from work (we also have great shower facilities on site, as well as plenty of bike racks to safely store your bike!) Season ticket / Travel loan After successful completion of your probation period, PEI offers an interest free travel loan, available for all permanent employees, for rail or tube annual tickets, for the purpose of you travelling to and from work.

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