Junior Designer

Hybrid Agency : Havas Helia Job Description Summary : Junior designers are passionate, driven and curious about solving problems. At Havas we want to support you in that journey. We believe in the traditional system of developing our staff and promoting internally when at that next level of your career, and expanding the team as the needs of the department shifts. As a Junior Designer, you should be ready to develop your existing skills by working with creatives on a range of ambitious and innovative projects, with support for growth and personal development. We are far from the finished article. Job Description : T 02 Fundamentals

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  As a junior in the team you will play an integral part in getting the smaller jobs through the business, picking up rounds of amends and ensuring consistency and attention to detail throughout.
• Be bursting with creativity and original ideas.
• Have a strong typographic understanding and an ability to follow brand guidelines.
• Be a conscientious and hard-working individual showing great enthusiasm to learn and pass on your learnings to the team.
• Manage your own workload, with your team’s help.
• Be a collaborative, team player able to get stuck in when things get busy.
• Have excellent organisational skills & time management.
• We work quickly and often manage multiple projects at once so you will need to be comfortable multitasking and switching your attention from client to client.
• Work across various digital media, including email, web, apps and print.
• Ensure visual impact on everything you do, utilising consistent and bespoke layouts throughout.
• Actively involved in client and internal presentations, with support from more senior team members when needed.
• Have an ability to adapt design content across digital banner platforms, MPU, leaderboard, skyscraper etc.
• Willing to get stuck in and involved when pitching for new business.
• Ability to adapt and explore different approaches and styles without being too precious.

What we expect from you
Responsible for helping to drive the creative process, with an understanding of the design principles: colour, contrast, balance, typography, layout, grids and consistency. A willingness to explore new areas of design like animation, illustration etc will be needed to help the team produce the best work possible.

You will be based at our Cirencester office, reporting to the Design Lead who will support you whenever you need. Will be required to work with Creative Director and other senior members of staff from time to time. You will be joining a fast paced, ever growing team, so the ability to work quickly and efficiently under pressure and across several projects is a must. You should have strong interpersonal skills, be creative and have a great attention to detail.
03 Being a good Junior Designer at havas helia What you will need to be successful

• We take pride in our team members having ownership of their work, and supporting others. We want you to develop your own relationships with colleagues, and our clients.
• Ask questions, be curious of the world around you and the importance design plays. Design is about providing a solution to a problem.
• Rather than simply getting the job done, we want you to pursue multiple approaches to design solutions – explore all options in order to arrive at best outcome. With the help of team members and brand guardians agree objectivity to the strongest solution.
• Able to receive constructive feedback and react in a positive, proactive way.
• Broad program capabilities – Adobe suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD, Figma, Sketch, PowerPoint and PDF creation/amendment.

What you will bring to the team

• Up to 2 years agency/design experience. We will consider graduates with relevant portfolios.
• Background in design – this could be academic or through internships/experience in relevant area.

Skills : Contract Type : Permanent Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job. Due to high volume of applications, only eligible or matching candidates will be contacted by us.