Brand Manager
Location: London, UK
Contract type: This is a contract role, with hourly rate based on experience
Experience Required: Brand management
Time Frame: ASAP – December 2022
Recruitment Partner: Airswift
Key Words: brand; brand manager; brand management; adobe; graphic design; designer
In February 2020 we set a new purpose: to reimagine energy for people and our planet - and a net zero ambition. To coincide with this, we refreshed our new look & feel to help communicate the change that our company is undertaking. We are looking for someone to support the brand team as we continue to support our colleagues and agency partners to use our updated visual identity purposefully.
About Us
Our purpose is reimagining energy for people and our planet. We want to help the world reach net zero and improve people’s lives. With operations in Europe, North and South America, Australasia, Asia and Africa, we deliver energy solutions across the world.
Required Skills
- Brand management - ideally within or for a large & global organization
- Attention to detail and a strong visual sense
- Enjoys working closely with others
Good To Have
- Up to date knowledge of the latest Adobe creative suite and WordPress
- Experience as a graphic designer
- Energy/renewable/oil and gas experience is a plus
Main Responsibilities
- Set up and manage a global community of practice ‘Brand Guardians’
We hope this community can help us share best practice around our visual standards and help us continue to modernize our brand
- Manage an accredited agency showcase that’s hosted on our brand site
The showcase lists the agencies who have been trained in our brand standards and displays best in class examples of our look & feel in action
- Support the visual standards manager with updating our brand standards
We’re midway through a project to update our brand site, called Brand Central, with updated and new guidelines
- Review design submissions in our approval tool against our brand standards
We receive on average three design submissions per day for review against our brand standards
- Answer colleague queries that come in via the brand team inbox or via Yammer
From the straightforward ‘where can I download the logo?’ to the more complex ‘I need an ad for tomorrow!’…and everything in between
- Publish brand updates and thought pieces on the brand team Yammer
Communicating the updates we make to our brand standards, such as the introduction of new motion guidelines, and writing thought pieces, such as how to use our script font for maximum impact (spoiler: less is more!)
- Support the roll out of a new set workplace posters that communicate our strategy and purpose
We have a lot of offices around the world and only about a fifth of the way through rolling out the posters
Extra note:
- Inside IR35, PAYE (payroll company or Airswift)
- Application deadline: April 29, 2022
The next step
We have an exceptional team in place, and we are pleased to be able to appoint a further person to our growing business. We are aware that you may not ‘tick all the boxes’, but if you believe you can genuinely offer some valuable skills and experience to our business, please in the first instance contact our recruitment partner Airswift.