Creative Designer

Alcumus Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic marketing company in Manchester is seeking a Creative Designer responsible for shaping their brand identity and producing engaging visual content across campaigns. This role offers the chance for significant impact from day one, with responsibilities ranging from digital graphics to traditional print design. The ideal candidate should possess a strong portfolio, advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite, and a growth-oriented mindset. The company provides a collaborative, hybrid work environment along with numerous benefits including enhanced parental leave and a comprehensive health plan.

Benefits

Enhanced Parental Leave

Generous annual leave

Healthcare Plan

Annual Giving Day

Cycle-to-work Scheme

Pension scheme with employer contributions

Life Assurance

Rewards Program

LinkedIn Learning License

Qualifications

• A strong portfolio demonstrating excellence across graphic design, animation, video editing, and motion graphics.
• Experience creating design for multiple channels and formats (digital and print).
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve global brand identity and guidelines.
• Design high-quality creative assets for multi-channel marketing campaigns.
• Produce motion graphics, animations, and video content.

Skills

Graphic design

Animation

Video editing

Motion graphics

Strong attention to detail

Creative mindset

Adobe Creative Suite

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Premiere Pro

Job description

Creative Designer

Department: Marketing

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Manchester, UK

Reporting To: Head of Marketing - Certification

Description

Empowering organisations to achieve their highest potential.

At ISOQAR, we draw on our experience, knowledge, and ambition to empower organisations to achieve their highest potential. Through a portfolio of progressive solutions, we work with customers to strengthen their business through ISO certification, ISO training and consultancy, all delivered by our inhouse expertise.

We’re looking for a talented Creative Designer to join our team and bring bold, engaging visual content to life across our campaigns and channels. As a highly commercial, growth-focused business, you’ll be used to designing within a marketing environment driven by performance and conversion.

This is a brand-new role, giving you the opportunity to make a real impact from day one as we bring design in-house for the first time. You’ll play a key role in shaping our brand identity and producing creative assets that drive engagement and results.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll work across the full spectrum of digital and print design, from static graphics to animation and video content.

What that means day to day

• Own and evolve our global brand identity, including brand guidelines, templates, iconography, and visual systems.
• Design high-quality creative assets for multi-channel marketing campaigns across email, social media, web, paid advertising, and print.
• Create high-impact advertising creatives for LinkedIn, Meta, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube in static, animated, and short-form video formats.
• Produce motion graphics, animations, and video content to improve campaign performance and engagement.
• Edit and produce video content for a variety of platforms and business needs.
• Design emails, landing pages, website assets, and product launch collateral.
• Develop creative concepts that align with brand guidelines while continuously pushing creative standards.
• Translate marketing briefs into clear, effective, and visually engaging design solutions in collaboration with the marketing team.
• Build, test, and optimise campaign visuals to support conversion and performance goals.
• Maintain brand consistency across all touchpoints and act as a brand guardian for the business.
• Create polished presentations, pitch decks, and internal communications materials.
• Prototype and iterate quickly, using performance data, feedback, and cultural trends to inform creative direction.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining high design quality.
• Optimise designs based on campaign performance, insights, and stakeholder feedback.
• Stay up to date with design trends, tools, and best practices to keep the brand visually current and competitive.
• Use Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition) to deliver high-quality creative output.
• (Desirable) Support WordPress website updates and development using basic coding skills.

What you’ll need to be successful

Essential:

• A strong portfolio demonstrating excellence across graphic design, animation, video editing, and motion graphics.
• Experience creating design for multiple channels and formats (digital and print).
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro).
• Strong understanding of design principles, typography, colour theory, and composition.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, marketing-led environment.
• A creative mindset with the ability to think strategically and solve problems.
• Passion for visual storytelling and brand development.
• Ability to manage your own workload and work autonomously.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to high-quality output.
• Confident communication skills with the ability to explain creative decisions clearly.

Desirable:

• Experience creating for social and paid platforms (LinkedIn, Meta, TikTok, YouTube).
• Familiarity with UX/UI and responsive web design principles.
• Understanding of conversion-focused and performance-driven design.
• Experience using tools such as Figma or similar.
• Basic HTML/CSS and WordPress knowledge to support simple website updates (not full development).

Note: We’re primarily looking for design excellence across animation, video and multi-channel campaigns. Basic WordPress or HTML/CSS knowledge is a bonus, but not essential.

What you'll get in return

ISOQAR has a hybrid workplace policy, where you will work from the office 3 days per week. We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer.

• Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits
• 🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave
• 🌴Generous annual leave
• 🏥 Healthcare Plan
• 💟 Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community
• 🚲 Cycle-to-work Scheme
• Future Planning
• 💰 Pension scheme with employer contributions
• 🧬 Life Assurance – 3X base salary
• 💸 Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback
• 🏫 LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development

Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements?

Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!

Bring Your Whole Self to Work.

We are proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.

What you can expect if you apply:

• A response to your application within 15 working days
• An interview process consisting of:
  • An initial discovery call with the recruiter
  • A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
  • Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role

We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.