Associate Manager - Graphic Design

About the Role
This role involves producing high-quality graphic designs and supporting marketing operations across various media. You will be responsible for creating visual concepts based on project requirements, developing marketing materials, and ensuring adherence to brand guidelines. The position requires collaboration with the marketing team and involves managing multiple projects concurrently. Additionally, the role demands a focus on information security and continuous improvement of departmental processes and procedures, with compliance to quality, health, safety, and environmental standards.

Key Accountabilities

Graphic Design

• Produce high-quality designs, including logos, updating corporate guidelines, BTL, social media, screen, digital assets, and other marketing materials.
• Address design challenges and find creative solutions.
• Adapt designs to meet project constraints and objectives.
• Create visual concepts based on project requirements and business team needs.
• Brainstorm ideas and develop initial sketches or mockups.
• Utilize design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) to create and edit graphics. For the multimedia designer, knowledge of Dreamweaver and After Effects is required.
• Ensure all designs adhere to brand guidelines and maintain a consistent visual identity.
• Work on a wide range of projects and media, using various software programs to visualize and develop innovative graphic designs that meet business goals.
• Work independently as well as cooperatively with the marketing team to meet deadlines, stay within budget, and schedule project implementation, which may include five or more simultaneous projects.
• Examine existing processes, identify flaws, and create solutions that improve design capabilities.
• Translate strategic direction into high-quality design within an established brand identity.
• Develop concepts with software and execute original content by determining the ideal usage of color, text, font style, imagery, and layout.
• Manage the design and uploading process for all project materials, based on best practices for using a content management system.
• Use trend intelligence and knowledge of historical and current markets when designing and executing specific classifications.
• Support the creation of brand experiences using the latest graphic design techniques for consumer-facing brand experience.
• Understand creative and business needs to determine the presentation of illustrative material.
• Conceptualize, create, and deliver digital graphics as needed for the website, e-mail blasts, and other digital collateral.
• Review all content designs for errors before publishing to ensure all visuals, branding, and language are impactful and in line with branding guidelines.
• Select the best medium to present or produce the design concept using color, type, illustration, photography, animation, and various print and layout techniques.
• Support campaign planning and execution by designing scaled campaign material while applying established standards, formats, and guidelines, and supervising adaptation from suppliers/agencies.
• Prepare visual presentations by designing art and copy layouts, ensuring design content meets brand/business requirements.
• Deliver marketing briefs and projects from concept, art design, to delivery while observing brand guidelines.
• Design templates for presentations, brochures, advertisements, catalogs, e-shot invites, logos, packaging, and promotional material, ensuring adherence to established artwork guidelines.

Information Security

• Adhere to the information security policies/processes/program and report any security breaches or incidents to direct management.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

• Contribute to identifying opportunities for continuous improvement of departmental systems, policies, processes, and practices considering ‘international leading practices’ to improve productivity and operational efficiency.
• Provide critical input to support the development of the department’s systems, policies, processes, and procedures to meet business requirements.
• Ensure team members comply with all department’s policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

Quality, Health, Security, Safety and Environment

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and relevant quality, health, safety, security, and environmental procedures and controls across the department to guarantee employee safety and delivery of high-quality services.

Reporting

• Prepare reports in a timely and accurate manner to meet the departmental requirements, policies, and standards.

Others

• Perform other relevant tasks of the job purpose when, and if required.

Qualifications & Experience

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Graphics, or a relevant field from a recognized university.

Minimum Experience and Skills

• 5 - 7 years of experience handling marketing operations, preferably within a similar industry.
• Expertise in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe XD, Figma, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Dreamweaver, and Adobe Lightroom.
• Proficiency in using MS Office.
• Skills in visual design, technical tools, teamwork and leadership, time management, and photography.