Position Purpose:
Provide leadership for designers by managing projects effectively and ensuring the achievement of creative excellence by supporting and driving L&F’s creative vision and beliefs – ‘great ideas expertly and beautifully crafted and delivered with rigor and flair’.
Under the direction of a Design Director and/or Creative Director, the Senior Designer will help develop and understand design strategy to deliver the best possible creative solution with consideration of budget for the client and L&F. Ensures all projects are delivered according to L&F’s brand promise “Creative Intelligence”.
Duties and Responsibilities
L&F Fundamentals
- Coordinates projects with outside resources to facilitate production of deliverables.
- Ensures all correspondence, materials, presentations, proposals, etc., seen by prospective and existing clients are error-free, of highest quality and always relevant to the client’s issues.
- Partners effectively with all departments to ensure delivery of on-time, high-quality deliverables that address all relevant prospective clients’ requirements.
- Communicates findings and recommendations in a clear and compelling manner in written, oral and presentation forms.
- Provides back-up and archiving.
- Sharing and importing best practices and resources with peers within broader L&F network.
- Interacts in a positive, professional and motivating manner.
- Acts as a role model for L&F’s values of Creative Intelligence and 5 core values.
Creative Excellence
- Provide leadership for designers by managing project assignments.
- Conducts conceptual exploration, including drawing, sketching, research and thumbnails.
- Establishes directions and design solutions; ensures implementation of directions from concept through production.
- Able to put forward a point of view not just on their own work but the work of others.
- Proficiency in all creative software.
- May lead project for a client engagements of appropriate size and scope or on the specialised needs of a client project across areas of expertise.
- Proven ability to be handle multiple projects/tasks at one time.
- Assists in award entries
Strategic Brand and Design Sense
- Assist in evaluating and contributing to developing and writing competitive and breakthrough design strategies and plans.
- Is capable of leading an internal team toward optimal brand solutions.
- Can communicate design strategy to various audiences.
- Has developed a sophisticated understanding of design.
- Present design solutions to the client in a strategic manner.
Thought Leadership
- Support the development of thought leadership pieces for the team.
Commercial Awareness
- Is aware of studio utilisation and profitability on assigned projects.
- Partners with DD’s to maintain high utilisation.
People and Team
- Seeks out opportunities for personal creative growth by working outside area of specialisation.
- Acts as a role model for L&F’s values of Creative Intelligence and 5 core values.
- Responsible for individual performance management of direct reports, including performance appraisals and interim performance reviews.
Organisational Skills
- May be involved in recommendations on creative team make-up.
- Helps with project planning and organisation.
- Delegates tasks in organised manner.
- Monitors timeline and deadlines.
- Efficiently backs up in an organised manner on the server.
Competencies for Success
- Strategic thinker
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both internally and externally
- Good presentation skills and written communication skills
- Team player
- Creative flair
- Sociable
- Problem solver
- Can do attitude
- Ability to work in a pressurised environment
- Flexible
- Organised
- Meticulous
- Excellent eye for detail
- Willingness to learn and grow
- Curious
- Inspiring
- Good motivator
Required Experience
- Minimum 2 years’ design experience in a branding/design agency
How to go for it:
We are yet working on the technology to make this process simpler and more seamless for you. In the meantime, kindly mail your resume to vikram@vmcww.com with the subject line: Application LM/21/109
Our team will pick it up from there and get in touch with you. Make sure you send us your CV along with links to your folio and last or current CTC.
