Job Title: Brand and Design Manager
 Location: London
 Job Type: 12 month maternity cover

Agencies: We will only work with recruitment partners on our preferred supplier list and will not engage with speculative CVs submitted.

LifeArc, we want to hear from people who are as passionate as we are about making life science life changing that can improve patients’ lives.

 A bit about the role:

The Design and Brand Manager helps to drive forward the visibility of the LifeArc brand, building engagement with internal and external audiences.  Working with the Associate Director, Marketing, the Chief Communications Officer and other senior leaders across the organisation, the post-holder will be responsible for creating, curating and protecting all LifeArc brand assets and for supporting all communications and marketing activity with brand and design services.

About you:

You will work with The Associate Director, Marketing and senior leaders across the organisation to review the brand, and develop and maintain a fresh brand ‘look and feel’.

Maintain the brand guidelines across all collaterals 

Own and produce all of LifeArc’s brand and design work, with the support of other team members and agency support where required – to include:

• Develop digital assets to support website and social media development
• Support the development of all collateral including annual report, case studies and event collateral
• Development of presentations, brochures, digital assets and videos to support initiatives across the organisation
• Graphic design for all external communications, including regular Board updates and PowerPoint presentations for LifeArc speakers
• Develop assets to support events, including invitations, onsite staging, banners digital assets.
• Collect stakeholders feedback to learn from experience and adjust brand and design work as necessary
• Create icons in Illustrator

 Education & experience required: 

• A degree/diploma or relevant experience desired but not required.
• Excellent skills in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. 
• A basic understanding of Figma would be desired but not essential.

Skills & abilities:

• Extensive and relevant brand and graphic design experience required
• Proven ability to engage and manage senior stakeholders
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proven experience in PowerPoint presentations
• Proficient in Word
• Excellent editorial design skills such as annual reports and booklets  
• In-depth knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Illustration skills desirable (asset creation and event maps)
• A basic understanding of how to create iconography in Illustrator 
• Experience in event design with using cutter guides and creating artwork for large scale print 
• Experience in working across print and digital collateral
• Artworking experience essential for prepping items for print
     

About us:

At LifeArc, our ambition is to make life science life changing. We do this by advancing scientific discoveries beyond the lab, faster, so that they can shape the next generation of diagnostics, treatments, and cures. 

Working at the cutting edge of translational science and as the early-stage translation specialists, we progress scientific discoveries on their journey to becoming a medicine, diagnostic or intervention that can improve patients’ lives. Our work begins by seeking out innovative science, then helping to develop this to a point where there is a clinical and commercial pathway for others to invest the time and money to take it further forward. 

What we can offer you:

Salary will be determined by qualifications and experience along with other exceptional benefits. Because we understand everyone has different requirements, our flexible benefits allow you to choose those which are important to you. Our pension scheme offers employer contributions of up to 12%, private health insurance, and annual leave of 31 days PLUS bank holidays. 

Join us, and you’ll have the scope to be creative and take measured risks. You’ll be rewarded for your curiosity, for working as one team, and for learning fast. And you’ll have everything you need to be your best every day. 

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, for example, are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At LifeArc we are dedicated in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so whatever your background or lived experience, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Our top priority is finding the best candidate and you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. 

We all have potential. At LifeArc, you’ll discover what you can really do with it.

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