Senior Creative Designer, Associate Director Job at EY in Louisville

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Date: Jan 29, 2025

Requisition ID: 1533717

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

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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:

• Developing leading practice pursuit design, driving process consistency, and identifying synergies in collateral development.
• 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.
• Collaborate and stretch team’s thinking to integrate design elements seamlessly into proposals and materials, incorporating user-centered design principles.
• Ensure design work across all design assets remains consistent with the company's branding identity.
• Infuse current design and industry trends, design techniques, and emerging technologies to bring fresh and innovative design ideas.
• Be a beacon of pursuit excellence, bringing vast knowledge, tools, and resources from across the firm.
• Focus on the Quality and Risk Management of their work and resource management of opportunities.
• Responsible for the performance and resource management of a team of pursuit designers.
• Conceive and deliver strategic design initiatives that have a significant impact on the firm’s ability to win more, win bigger and win better.

Your key responsibilities

Strategic development:

• Increase the firm’s ability to win more through the upskilling of design team members.
• Oversee the strategy, methodology, and deployment plans for pursuit designs.
• Cascade best practices, process consistency and synergies across the entire Center of Excellence (COE).
• Instill Exceptional Client Service (ECS) principles into the end-to-end COE process.
• Translate firm-wide and BD strategic priorities within COE pursuit design function.
• Develop the visual design strategy that supports our win strategy.
• Conducts client, service line/solution and sector research to develop a creative strategy tailored for the pursuits.
• Attends and contributes to pursuit strategy calls throughout the pursuit process.
• Pitches and influences the pursuit team on creative strategy.

Creative production:

• Produce tailored deliverables and graphics across the pursuit lifecycle on schedule and with high quality.
• Increase the firm’s ability to win more through the upskilling of design team members.
• Oversee the strategy, methodology, and deployment plans for pursuit designs.
• Cascade best practices, process consistency and synergies across the entire Center of Excellence (COE).
• Instill Exceptional Client Service (ECS) principles into the end-to-end COE process.
• Translate firm-wide and BD strategic priorities within COE pursuit design function.
• Develop the visual design strategy that supports our win strategy.
• Conducts client, service line/solution and sector research to develop a creative strategy tailored for the pursuits.
• Attends and contributes to pursuit strategy calls throughout the pursuit process.
• Pitches and influences the pursuit team on creative strategy.

Innovation:

• Lead a program of continuous improvement activities to ensure the firm’s strategic design approach is innovative.
• Keeps abreast of industry knowledge and trends.
• Analyzes market developments and leads initiatives to leverage innovation in strategic design.
• Shares best practices and innovation from pursuits.
• Supports team strategic and/or operational initiatives.
• Stay future focused on tools and processes to determine areas for improvement.
• Leverage and connect with teams around the firm.

Administration and Reporting

• Assess deal data and recommending efficiencies/change management.
• Maintain relationships with key interdependency groups.
• Participate in internal and external networks.
• Determine appropriate team training focus areas.
• Ensure team processes are being followed.
• Update and help improve current processes.
• Be an advocate and creative ambassador for the team.

Skills and attributes for success

• Must be able to operate in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Influences/challenges the pursuit team appropriately.
• Demonstrates versatility and poise in a constantly evolving environment.
• Solution-oriented and makes sound design/creative recommendations.
• Champions best-practice creative tools and processes.
• Challenges team as appropriate to meet production deadlines.
• Analyze win/loss insights.
• Debrief with Deal Managers and Deal Leaders on pursuit best practices.
• Counsel account teams in the use of strategic design.
• Direct improvement of Pursuits process.
• Ensure effective leadership, teaming, and use of Area design team resources.
• Oversee and manage team development through learning and coaching.
• Be an active contributor to future learning and development training programs.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 15+ years of Graphic Design/Communications / Pursuits Strategy experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Previous experience of managing teams/communities.
• Cross-border experience gained working in a large global organization.
• Strong understanding of Deal Activation or new business pitches.
• Proven ability to influence and build collaborative relationships.
• Must have deep experience in graphic design.
• Must maintain superior knowledge of graphics software tools.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and able to work with limited supervision.
• Demonstrate executive presence.
• Knowledge of EY’s products and services is helpful.
• Must be agile in a high-paced environment.
• Use logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses.
• Maintain capabilities for troubleshooting technical issues.
• Coaches and supports development of offshore and onshore Designers.
• Performance management of Deal Activation Design team members.

Ideally, you'll also have

• Flexibility to work outside regular working hours.
• Moderate travel may be required.
• No certifications are required for this role.

What 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.

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