Design Director

SGK and SGS & Co have built an impressive roster in creative, strategy, digital commerce, experiential marketing, engineering, and creative content production—bringing together the incredible talent of 2,300 agency professionals. This collective expertise will come together under Marks, a Next-Gen Creative Platform built to thrive in today's global and local cultural conversations. Equator will continue to play an important role as an agency within Marks.We are looking for a Design Director to join the team on a 12 month contract. Partnering with Client Services, this role will own the creative client relationships and quality of design across brands and/or accounts, ensuring we deliver the best against each brief. Using strong judgement and analytical skills to drive better design and deliver beyond the client expectationResponsibilities:Building strong client relationships, acting as their brand custodian. Using understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands to add provocation and richness.Leading by example, guiding and inspiring your team to produce exceptional, insightful work that fully explores, challenges and goes beyond the brief. Knowing the power of sketching.Approving work before client submission, maintaining our quality of output.Acting as the design consultant to your Client Service partners, aligning briefs to the client and brand needs, adding richness and insight to enable design to go deeper, stronger.Maximising our resources, managing your team’s workflow to deliver efficiently, adapting the plan when things change in partnership with Resource Management.Skills/Experience:Strong knowledge of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the world they inhabit8-12 years experience within a Brand/Packaging Design agency in Design rolesShopper/retail experienceUnderstanding of design systems within retail envrionmentStakeholder management skillsExceptional print / material knowledgeCross-team management, ability to identify and leverage skills across the networkAgility, read the room and adaptA degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related fielddobe CC, Office, SketchingPropelis, is a go-to-market ecosystem that enables marketers to move their brands forward with greater speed, clarity, and confidence. Our broad range of integrated solutions include brand creative, packaging, print solutions, branded environments, and content production. Services are delivered through our family of brands: SGX, Marks, Equator, Collide, and 5Flow. With a combined legacy spanning more than 150 years, Propelis commences operations with 10,000 employees in 30+ countries, nearly $1 billion in annual sales, and a diverse client base of over 2,000 leading companies.