Brand Applications Specialist

AtkinsRéalis is one of the world's leading multi-disciplinary consultancy firms offering unparalleled opportunities for individuals in search of a rewarding career. We offer more than just a job. We offer an opportunity to make a difference and to shape the world to benefit future generations and the environment. At AtkinsRéalis, we're proud to say that the great work we do is thanks to our people's diversity of thought, expertise, and knowledge. When you join us, you'll be a part of this genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally.

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Brand Application Specialist to join our dynamic brand team. This role is ideal for a creative professional with a strong background in design for brands, brand development, and brand implementation across print and digital platforms. You will be responsible for ensuring brand consistency and excellence across all touchpoints, from clothing and merchandise, office fit-out, template creation as well as other brand outputs.

The ideal candidate must be thorough, and detail driven in their approach with the ability to develop creative and innovative solutions when faced with problems or challenges.

Working days: 3 days' work from office.

Key responsibilities:

The role will cover the following areas and will require a depth and knowledge of not only brand application but most importantly the knowledge and attention to detail to develop guidance for others to follow in the following areas:

Brand implementation & Guardianship-

• Create, apply and maintain brand guidelines across a wide range of physical assets including merchandising, clothing, signage, office branding.
• Create, apply and maintain brand guidance across digital assets with a key focus on developing templates for Microsoft applications, Adobe Creative Suite and digital platforms such as Canva.
• Act as a brand guardian, ensuring consistency and quality across all visual communications.
• Merchandising and clothing.
• Design and develop promotional items and guidance that truly harness our brand, research innovative methods of brand application, sample testing, create mock-ups and prototypes whilst capturing in print and application guidelines.
• Collaborate with other internal teams to define, test and guide the brand application in different materials as needed by the users.
• Work in yearly projects to evolve exciting and creative new promotional items that elevate our brand profile through clothing sports kits, events kits and other merchandise products.

Office branding-

• Create production-ready artwork and guidance for office branding for around 300 offices globally including defining messaging, testing production materials and creating guidelines for applications.
• Work on specific projects to create technical recommendations for branding applications such as wayfinding, murals, glass manifestations, etc.

Print guidance-

• Use the knowledge of our brand in print to help evolve detailed print guidance that captures the vibrancy of our brand consistently.
• Engage with suppliers to keep up to date with techniques, materials and processes to continually support our physical brand.

Cross-functional collaboration-

Work closely with Creative Design, our internal design team, marketing, Real Estate and other teams to deliver cohesive brand experiences.

Process improvement-

• Nurture awareness and knowledge in the Brand Team educating on the complexities of print application where required and identifying improvement opportunities on our processes.
• Collaborate with other parts of the business, giving necessary training and mentorship on print production where required.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Graphic Design or similar design field, years of experience in graphic design, creative artwork, or brand implementation roles.
• Proven experience in brand guidelines design, print production, and digital asset creation.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating a range of brand applications across B2B and B2C contexts.
• Experience of product/Industrial design is hugely advantageous as would experience creating instructions or packaging.
• Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional environments, ideally within product or innovation teams.

Skills & Tools:

• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge are essential but Premiere or AfterEffects are advantageous.
• Experience in creating guidelines ideally using a CMS platform.
• Experience creating templates on platforms such as Canva.Microsoft Office, and presentation tools.
• Strong understanding of brand application, typography, layout, design for print, environmental/office design.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.

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Meeting your needs:

When you start with us, you'll enjoy "Total Reward" , a package that can be tailored to your lifestyle, career and personal needs. From flexible holidays to life assurance, health & wellbeing benefits, and career planning for the senior stage of your career.

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More about us:

AtkinsRéalis is a leading global consultancy with over 100 years of design and engineering expertise. With us, you'll be surrounded by the skills, knowledge and support to help you succeed. Together, we can deliver projects which have a positive, sustainable impact on the world.

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Additional Information:

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.