Employer Brand Creative Design Manager - UK&I - BMC - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Employer Brand Creative Design Manager - UKI BMC

12 Month Fixed-term contract/ Secondment

Level 3: Assistant Director

Location: UK Wide

Hybrid working: Currently a minimum one day per week in the office

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.   

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.   

Join EY and help to build a better working world.   

The opportunity  

A career at EY is an incredible opportunity for professionals to shape their future with confidence. We have an amazing story to tell about the work we do, solving our clients’ most complex challenges and giving our people a supportive and empowering environment where they work in innovative teams at the cutting edge of technology. 

We need to attract talent to serve our clients across our service lines: assurance, consulting, tax and strategy. Employer brand activations play a crucial part in this. In a fast-paced world where candidate behaviour is continually changing and with more career choices than ever before, we need to articulate why EY should be the employer of choice. This is an exciting opportunity for a creative design manager to drive a more connected and cohesive approach across our activity - using creative and strategic expertise to bring our employer value proposition to life in a compelling way for talent.

Your key responsibilities

• Helping to deliver an overarching employer brand strategy for EY in the UK that closes brand gaps, improves brand attributes and builds a community of engaged prospective talent.
• Applying advanced Adobe Creative Cloud expertise (InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, etc.) to deliver high-quality, production-ready design for digital and print.
• Act as a subject matter expert and brand guardian, ensuring all outputs align with our visual identity standards and quality expectations.
• Shape a cohesive, strategically aligned creative approach across all outputs, driving consistency and impact.
• Partner closely with internal creative teams, effectively leveraging shared expertise to scale delivery and accelerate the turnaround of outputs.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of employer brand, using talent audience trends and insight and messaging to inform design direction.
• Champion innovation, continuously elevating creative output to support business objectives.
• Adapt flexibly across the employer brand remit, responding to varied campaign needs and priorities.
• Support campaign planning and delivery, including budget ownership where required.

Skills and attributes for success

• Knowledge of employer brand principles (or corporate brand), including employer value propositions.

• Advanced technical skills in Adobe Creative Cloud.

• Ability to work within a global brand framework and adapt or create work that aligns with the master brand and creates the strongest possible impact in the UK.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to plan, prioritise and deliver multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with a visible presence in key conversations.
• Demonstrates resilience in a fast-paced environment, effectively managing multiple priorities and high volumes of work while maintaining quality and attention to detail.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Experience of working in an employer brand team (or corporate brand), ideally in professional services or a large, matrixed environment.

• Team leadership experience – this role will oversee the workload and outputs of a Senior Creative Designer.

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with MyReward you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note 

Prior to finalising your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters.