Senior Creative Designer, Associate Director Job at EY in Baton Rouge

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Location: Various locations across the US.

Senior Creative Designer, Associate Director

Our Sales function brings together business, sector, and account knowledge along with EY competencies and solutions to meet unique client needs. The Sales & Strategic Pursuits Organization shapes and drives an integrated growth strategy across EY's largest accounts, industry sectors, solutions, and services, while demonstrating and achieving market leadership through a client centric culture.

The opportunity

The Senior Creative Designer is responsible for supporting the firm’s most high-value, strategic deals across the following scope of responsibilities:

1. Developing leading practice pursuit design, driving process consistency, and identifying synergies in collateral development.
2. Develop and communicate complex ideas, solutions, and value propositions through compelling visual, cohesive, and persuasive narratives that resonate with clients and effectively convey the team's strategy.
3. Collaborate and stretch team’s thinking to integrate design elements seamlessly into proposals and materials, incorporating user-centered design principles.
4. Ensure design work across all design assets remains consistent with the company's branding identity.
5. Infuse current design and industry trends, design techniques, and emerging technologies to bring fresh and innovative design ideas.
6. Be a beacon of pursuit excellence, bringing vast knowledge, tools, and resources from across the firm to proactively deliver creative design assets.
7. Focus on the Quality and Risk Management of work and resource management of opportunities.
8. Responsible for the performance and resource management of a team of pursuit designers.
9. Conceive and deliver strategic design initiatives that impact the firm’s ability to win more.

Your key responsibilities

1. Creative strategy that effectively conveys and enhances EY’s win themes, solution and offering.
2. Oversee the strategy, methodology, and deployment plans for pursuit designs.
3. Cascade best practices, process consistency and synergies across the entire Center of Excellence (COE).
4. Instill Exceptional Client Service (ECS) principles into the COE process.
5. Develop the visual design strategy that supports our win strategy and the client’s requirements.
6. Contribute to overall win strategy by developing innovative visuals and presentations.
7. Conduct client and sector research to develop a tailored creative strategy.
8. Produce design comps based on research to give the team optionality in the creative strategy.
9. Attend and contribute to pursuit strategy calls throughout the pursuit process.
10. Pitches and influences the pursuit team on creative strategy.

To qualify for the role, you must have

1. 15+ years of Graphic Design/Communications / Pursuits Strategy experience.
2. Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
3. Previous experience of managing teams/communities.
4. Strong understanding of Deal Activation or new business pitches.
5. Proven ability to influence and build collaborative relationships.
6. Deep experience in graphic design with exposure to brand marketing.
7. Proficiency in MS Office and design software.
8. Excellent project management and organizational skills.
9. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business.

EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities.

EY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis. If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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