Assistant Design Manager

Job Description

Job title: Assistant Design Manager

Company: Unilever

Job description: Please Note: The deadline for applying is 23.59 the day before the job posting end date.JOB TITLE Assistant Design ManagerLOCATION 100VEJOB PURPOSEAre you a creative with a passion for luxury, beauty and design?We are looking for a strategic multi-disciplined designer to join our team at Pitch to work across our Beauty and Wellbeing (B&W) global brands in Skincare, Haircare and Supplements.Pitch is a centre for collaborative creativity. The team at Pitch are involved in shaping and accelerating innovation design and delivery for Unilever B&W deliver a step change in the volume of bigger and faster breakthrough innovations for product, content and business models. We also play an important role in creating an environment to craft a new beauty culture within Unilever.Design is a critical capability to create meaningful and relevant brand experiences for our consumers any time they interact with touchpoints relating to our portfolio of products.The ideal candidate must have a passion for beauty, have a design eye for beauty aesthetics and an interest in the industry, keeping up to date with what competitors are doing, emerging semiotic trends and bring these through into your work – everything must look like it belongs in the world of premium beauty!This role provides an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and passionate designer to be at the forefront of development of high impact brand design innovation. As a talented and creative thinker, you will take ideas from conception through to execution and delivery, listening to feedback and adapting to brief. You will be responsible for the quality, creativity, and delivery of a wide variety of projects.With an eye for detail and strong understanding of design principles, you will be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and have experience of producing assets across brand all touch points (print, digital and social).In partnership with the Pitch Head of Design you will be responsible for helping develop, challenge and shape design at Pitch, deliver the greatest value for both the consumer and our brands, with incredible design thinking and execution. Always putting the consumer at the heart of what we, what is the problem that we’re trying to solve for them and develop future facing ideas.RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with the Head of Design and freelance designers to create stimulus for workshops e.g. semiotics, territory boards, consumer persona that clearly meets the brief from the global brand team.
• Use best practice design thinking to stretch briefs making them consumer-centric and future facing.
• Create meaningful purpose driven design solutions
• Support initiation and coordination of feasibility prototypes post-workshop working in collaboration with R&D Packaging & external agency partners.
• Support in continual development of a design network for Pitch consisting of both external and internal relationships to be able to bring the best talent to each project and utilise any learnings that may already exist in the business.
• Stay up to date with both industry trends and best in class examples of design from other categories proactively finding ways to use this knowledge in projects.
• Degree level or equivalent qualification or relevant experience in Graphic Design or other technical creative design qualifications.
• Proficient in some of the following software: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, InVision/Marvel/Proto.IO for prototyping, Sketch, Powerpoint. Generative AI e.g Midjourney
• Significant experience in graphic design, and digital design for a premium brands or within a creative agency. Ideally experience in luxury, beauty & wellbeing.
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates experience in branding, innovation, digital, packaging development, and campaign creation.
• Quick visualization – either sketching and prototyping on paper or digital mock-up.
• Idea generation with active participation in workshops, helping teams to develop early ideas.
• Work as a brand guardian for the brand ensuring brand consistency throughout projects.
• Experienced in collaboration with design agencies and suppliers with the ability to help craft a good design brief.

ALL ABOUT YOU

• Eye for beauty and attention to detail and always striving for perfection.
• Curiosity and passion for beauty and wellbeing.
• Agility to be able to work in a fast-paced environment and balance multiple projects and priorities.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as both part of a team and independently with accountability and responsibility: owning your projects, facing challenges, and managing expectations. Ensure that the deliverables are not only possible, but the timeline, quality, and overall result are aligned with the brief.
• Resilient, able to adapt to change, and look for opportunities to continuously improve all elements of Pitch.
• Strategic thinking with a passion for problem solving: able to distil consumer understanding and needs into opportunity areas and creating big ideas.
• Understanding and application of semiotics and market codes to packaging.
• Knowledge in the area of sustainable / circular design is an advantage

NOTESAbout UnileverUnilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’LocationIn September 2020, Unilever announced the intention to build a new sustainable campus site in Kingston, London to house the employees who currently work in 100 Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars, Lever House in Kingston and Graze in Richmond. We are creating our own Unilever sustainable, agile work environment, purposefully bringing us together in our own Unilever ecosystem. The campus is due to be completed in early 2025 and will consist of two interconnected buildings, as well as landscaped surrounding areas.What We OfferNot only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We want to push boundaries, and have the flexibility needed to keep adapting in an ever-changing, more dynamic world. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.As part of your hiring journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments, to improve your recruitment experience.To find out more, including more information about our Employee Resource Groups, please click .Recruitment FraudCyber criminals advertise fake job adverts with prestigious employers as a way of stealing information or even defrauding individuals out of money. In the most sophisticated cases, they will set up fake websites, which have a similar address to companies like Unilever. They even conduct fake telephone interviews and then offer candidates a role with the proviso they pay a fee for background checks or to cover work visa costs. These types of attacks are becoming more common as more people are looking for employment in the economic climate.How is Unilever tackling this?Many of Unilever’s recruitment sites publish a warning to candidates about recruitment fraud. The Cyber Security team also proactively scan for signs of people setting up fake Unilever sites and act to close them down.What can I do?If you become aware of potential recruitment fraud, spot fake Unilever recruitment adverts or fake LinkedIn profiles, report them via Una Live Chat.Unilever does not accept responsibility or liability for any candidates who are financially impacted by recruitment fraud. Your vigilance is key!

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