Thursday, 19 May 2011

Graphic Designer

Graphic Designer
Warwickshire
£20 – 25k
Ref: GD40

Established Marketing Communications Agency is looking for a Creative middle-weight designer with good creative skills and ideas. Producing creative design solutions and digital artwork to highest standards possible, across a range of marketing material. Providing creative and design input into jobs as briefed. Maintaining high level of proficiency in industry standard programs; Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, MS Office, Quark Xpress etc.

Liaising with Account Managers, Suppliers and Clients where appropriate and as necessary. Operating in accordance with Studio/production systems and procedures and assisting as instructed by the Creative Director. A knowledge or interest in web/digital design is an advantage but not essential.
Please forward your salary requirements & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Junior/Mid-Level Designer

Junior/Mid-Level Designer
Birmingham
£18 – 25k Dep on Exp
Ref: GD39

Junior/Mid- Weight Designer required for a brand design and marcomms agency based in Birmingham. Responsible for the quality completion of designated projects within timescales; managing your own workflow and timelines, to support the team where necessary and to ensure the highest standards are achieved on all projects.

Work on large projects as part of a team or individually; delivering projects efficiently and professionally to a high creative standard either as part of a project team or on your own.

Client liaison; sometimes you will be the point of contact for projects alongside the project manager. It is important to understand the clients business and their specific needs as well as deliver a high standard of creative execution. Share knowledge and influences; gain and use influences from a wide range of sources. Share these with the team and use them in developing concepts.

Work pro-actively with other divisions; develop the creative idea and deliver high quality creative output with digital, interior and freehand divisions.

Develop new business ideas; suggest potential new business areas and brands. Contribute to weekly production meetings with inspiration and insight.

Personal development; identify personal training requirements and opportunities for you as an individual and the wider team.

Branding discipline and understanding; to demonstrate a clear understanding of the branding process and the construction/deconstruction of a brand platform. Brand consistency; ensure that the brand is consistently delivered throughout the development and roll out process.

Demonstrate a sound ability to substantiate your work and to develop the creative rationale to be used in client documents. To maintain a positive attitude and a passion for the work that you do along with a commitment to deliver under pressure. To develop copywriting skills and use these when describing your work. This copy should be used to annotate and preclude the creative. To be a sound presenter of your work, both internally and externally to clients.
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Junior/Mid-Weight Creative Artworker

Junior/Mid-Weight Creative Artworker
West Midlands
c£18 -23k Dep on Exp
Ref: GD38

Experienced Creative Artworker for Midlands creative communications agency with impressive client base. The role entails artwork production of a combination of press adverts, POS, brochures, leaflets and DM pieces. You will have a minimum of 12 months Mac artworking experience within a busy, fast moving print and press production environment. Accuracy and attention to detail is essential, along with good typography skills and an eye for design. With the ability to artwork from scamps, under direction from creative team. Be fully conversant with the latest Mac hardware and system software, and with current industry standard applications (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Quark Xpress). Also a working knowledge of Word & Excel and have a good working knowledge of pdf technologies.
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Senior Conceptual Visualiser

Senior Conceptual Visualiser
Northamptonshire
£excellent
Ref: GD37


Senior Conceptual Visualiser required for a multi-award winning retail marketing agency that are on a roll.

They are looking for a talented visualiser / designer with very strong conceptualising skills and experience of Retail Interiors, POP & POS and Sales Promotion projects. You will be responsible for defining big brand ideas and platforms that span across multiple channels for our mouth-watering range of blue-chip clients.
You'll be able to bring them to life with slick, clean and contemporary hand drawn visuals (Wacom) to tight deadlines and within budget. You will be reporting to the Creative Director and working within a senior team of creatives in our modern, well equipped and energetic Northampton studio.

Good general Mac skills are also essential.

If you want to work on big projects for some of the world's biggest brands, then this is the job you've been waiting for. They are going places and want to take you with them.

The position comes with a competitive salary, profit sharing scheme, training and mentoring, a modern 'no-nonsense' working environment, 20 days holiday (increasing 1 day per year, up to 25 days), duvet days, life insurance, private medical insurance and company pension.
Please forward your salary requirement, CV & work samples to ann@greensr.co.uk

Web & Print Designer/Artworker

Web & Print Designer/Artworker
West Midlands
£25k Dep on Exp
Ref: GD35

An established design & marketing agency offering a wide range of services, across both new and traditional media, to an interesting and varied client base are looking for a new team member. A good all rounder required from an agency background, you will need a strong portfolio, both web & print, showcasing good all round skills particularly in web design – ideally with front end development skills. You will also be expected to take your designs through to print ready artwork. SEO would be an asset but not essential.
Please forward your salary requirement, CV & work samples to ann@greensr.co.uk

Designer/Creative Artworker

Designer/Creative Artworker
North Staffordshire
£25 -30k
Ref: GD34

A small dynamic multi-disciplined agency, with a great deal of experience of providing clients with a one stop service, for all their creative and marketing needs. They are a proven and established agency with many years experience and an enviable reputation with a variety of large blue chip companies.

They are looking for an experienced and talented, all round, Designer/Creative Artworker, with a strong varied portfolio, which includes web layout designs. From an agency background you will have a strong all round skill set, including web design and the ability to take ideas through to high quality visuals and then on to accurate print ready artwork. Additionally your communication and production knowledge should be first class.
Please forward your salary requirement, CV & work samples to ann@greensr.co.uk

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Product & Packaging Designer

Product & Packaging Designer
West Midlands
Upto £35k
Ref: GD33

A major Midlands blue chip company are looking for a highly creative and inspirational Designer with a holistic approach to producing product & pack design. This is a fantastic opportunity to produce conceptual, non linear ideas across a range of products, within the Quality, Research & Development Department.

It is expected that the successful candidate will be in a similar role producing unique conceptual prototypes, initially as marker pen images, then on to 3D rendering, finally producing prototype moulds & packs. The Product & Packaging Designer will be involved in all of the process from idea, refinement, development, prototyping to validation. You will need a sound understanding of ingredients/product technical fundamentals, consumer insight, market structure, need states and the commercialisation process. You will be very familiar with research & development and quality systems such as specification management, project management system, quality management and productivity tracking systems. The successful individual will be an outstanding creative who is an effective & solid communicator, with good management & coaching skills as this role requires managing a Junior Designer.
Please forward examples of your work (as pdf or supply web link) from initial drawn images, 3D rendering to final product & pack.
Please forward your salary requirement, CV & work samples to ann@greensr.co.uk

Senior Web Developer

Senior Web Developer
Derbyshire
£40 – 60k
Ref: WD20

Senior Web Developer required for a full service design agency, to work alongside the graphic and 3D team to deliver brand experience both on & offline. Ideally you will have experience of all listed below but will they will also consider two people; one with online experience and the other offline. Offline - Apps programmer to work with them to produce offline digital installation and apps for Iphone/Ipads/Droids and Windows phones etc.

Online requirements

4+ years experience working with top digital agencies creating award winning creative and commercial experiences. Using a combination of programming languages for creative, commercial and transactional global sites.

A full understanding and ability to build and manage CMS systems that are easy to update and modify; many of the design features will include bespoke backend development.

Working knowledge of the latest SEO standards; it is vital that all sites are as SEO as possible within their initial design.

Program and build capability that is fully W3C compliant where appropriate.

Programmer Online software requirements:

W3C compliant XTHML, HTML5, CSS2.1, CSS3.0, XML

PHP/MySQL or ASP/SQL

Javascript – jQuery and AJAX Methodology

Flash and ActionScript

Experience within the following off the shelf CMS solutions would be beneficial: Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal

Offline Requirements

4+ years experience working with top digital agencies creating bespoke digital/interactive installations for retail and immersive exhibition environments.

A full understanding and experience of remote access applications, to run digital offline content.

Experience working with and alongside creative digital animators/designers. Taking their concepts and realising them fully through digital interfaces. Creating applications and installations that are stable and bug free. Written in a comprehensive and universal language that can be handed over to others.

Programmer Offline/Apps software requirements:

Csharp (iphone apps)
Offline interactive digital solutions
Director, C+, Processing
Java
Over all you will be responsible for working with the team to develop a digital system, working with and managing digital-based content. Provide digital authoring, maintenance and continuous improvement of existing sites and applications. Must be able to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines. Work closely with account and design teams to create and develop digital content and presentations. Assist/deliver time estimates and documentation needed for project development. You will need to be able to grasp new concepts quickly, have a good time management skills and work with minimal supervision/support. Personally you will be a real team player, proactive, eager to learn and self starter with initiative, who enjoys working with a likeminded dedicated team, on a wide range of client including many bluechips.
Please forward your salary requirement, CV & work samples to ann@greensr.co.uk

Web Programmer


Web Programmer
Buckinghamshire
£Excellent Depending on Experience
Ref: WD21

Web Programmer required for a digital telecommunications developer that sells into the world-wide market. They have been established for over 30 years and employs over 100 people. The product area in which the company is the market leader is experiencing very rapid change and the company is vigorously pursuing innovative product development in order to maintain and further its already significant position in a world market.

This is a new role which will involve development and maintenance of corporate web services which are hosted within the company IT infrastructure.

The ideal applicant will have had a minimum of 2 - 5 years of relevant experience working within both Microsoft and Linux environments and will have a good understanding of networking technology.

The role will involve liaison with both technical and non-technical people within the company and requires good interpersonal/communication skills and the ability to work independently or in a team.

Key technical skills :

Coding on Java, PHP, .Net platforms
ASP
Apache server
SQL Server/My SQL application development
HTML, XHTML, XML

Desirable technical skills :

Python, web page graphics design

Personal qualities :

Adaptable and able to pick up new skills
Able to demonstrate initiative and creativity
Able to work to deadlines
Able to multi-task
Logical approach to problem solving
Thorough and precise in quality of work

Qualification :

Relevant technical degree

Please forward your CV and salary requirement to ann@greensr.co.uk

Account Manager

Account Manager
Warwickshire
£20 – 25k
Ref: AH55

Established marketing communications agency is looking for an Account Manager to implement efficient running of a number of client accounts. To assist the company in business development by identify and develop new opportunities. To provide clients high quality and efficient account management. With your excellent communication skills you will build client relationships. You will be responsible for preparing jobs for briefing into studio and providing concise briefings. Producing client cost estimates to achieve agreed company margins whilst maintaining efficient estimating system. With excellent organisation skills you will maintain & organised client files, contact reports, work samples and order quotes. Also monitoring the production of jobs to ensure they are on schedule and budget. Part of your role will be to provide monthly and quarterly sales forecasts.

Your role in business development will be; developing the business potential of existing accounts to their full potential. Assisting with new business presentations. Defining new business proposals list. Identifying and building up information records relating to target companies. i.e. competitor information, market-knowledge

The agency manages a number of pan-European accounts; a second language e.g. Italian or French would be an advantage but is not essential.
Please forward your salary requirement and CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Client Services Director

Client Services Director
Birmingham
up to £60k
AH53

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Client Services Director to join an established and highly successful full service marketing and design agency. They are looking for someone from an agency and/or clientside background who is an entrepreneur at heart, with the commercial acumen to identify growth opportunities that impact on revenue/profit for clients and for the agency.
They need a top notch marketer with a proven ability to deliver through the line campaigns across all media from press and outdoor to DM, print and online, coupled with a natural ability to forge strong client relationships.

The successful candidate needs to be able to work pro-actively, demonstrate their outstanding organisational skills and the ability to cope under pressure. You will also need the ability to work strategically with clients to develop activity that achieves ROI as well as be willing to keep your hands on the tactical day-to-day activity.

This person will play a pivotal role in the development the agency, its clients and the team as follows:

- Working with the MDs to ensure the agency’s financial targets are met.
- Acquiring new business through client development, pitch support and presentations.
- Generating creative briefs, working with the Creative Director on ideas and campaign development.
- Direct line management of account handling team.
- Recruitment and development of account handling team
- Being a credible ambassador for the agency, building confidence with clients, consolidating and building client relationships and spotting/delivering new revenue opportunities.

Personal attributes will include:

- Ability to lead by example, hands-on and proactive
- Operational and strategic thinker
- Solution focused and demonstrate a constant ‘can do’ attitude
- Identify and ‘win’ business growth opportunities
- Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills
- Can work under pressure and to tight timescales
- Ability to quickly analyses and resolve problems
- Ability to think numerous steps ahead
- Solid business acumen and financial concern
- Strong attention-to-detail
- Manage, mentor and review performance of account team
- Self-motivated and able to motivate and drive others
- Solution focused and demonstrate a constant ‘can do’ attitude

Benefits: Pension, life assurance, private health care, equity shares, free parking.

If you have the right skills please forward your CV and salary requirements this role should definitely be given serious consideration as the long term benefits for the right candidate are hard to beat, the role gives the right person a real opportunity to shape their own and the agencies future.
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

New Business Manager/Director

New Business Manager/Director
Birmingham
£Dep on Exp
Ref: AH52


An integrated creative communications consultancy with an impressive portfolio of clients are looking for a New Business Manager with a proven track record and 3 - 5 years sales experience within the creative industry. Are you well organised and able to demonstrate a systematic approach to sales and marketing - regularly delivering new business? Capable of presenting at all levels. Ability to create, lead and execute strategic sales plan. Able to book top quality meetings and converting the business. If you are creative, energetic and dedicated with a real drive and appetite for sales with all the necessary experience then please send your CV. Please forward your salary requirement, salary is dependant on experience.
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Incentives Campaign Manager

Incentives Campaign Manager
Warwickshire
£22 - 25k ref: AH46

Incentives Campaign Manager required who is a team player with around 3 years background in incentives or marketing with a good understanding of incentives. You will be someone looking for a new challenge, who will thrive in this demanding role. The role involves creating, implementing and monitoring incentive programmes, liaising with clients and designers to create a brand.

The candidate will need to be a creative-thinker, able to identify opportunities that exist to alter, adjust or adapt the company formats to suit particular groups. The ability to enthuse and simultaneously co ordinate a number of campaigns, whilst working closely with colleagues and partner organisations, ensuring attention to detail is maintained, deadlines are met and that the campaign fulfils its aims. Working directly with the Customer Services Manager to source appropriate rewards. Preparation of pitch based documents and presentations. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a high attention to detail and excellent mathematical skills. You will liaise with clients and account managers to ascertain precise requirements creating, implementing and monitoring incentive campaigns. Obtaining quotations for development work, also preparing full campaign proposal and costings. General administration duties will include spreadsheet management, managing specified budgets and costs. You will obviously have excellent inter personal, communication and influencing skills at all levels.
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk
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Print New Business Sales Manager

Print New Business Sales Manager
Birmingham
£depending on experience
Ref: AH39


Established Printers with an excellent reputation within the print industry and are looking for a motivated and determined individual to join their successful team. They are currently seeking an experienced New Business Sales Representative.

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, the successful candidate should have an established and successful background in winning new business in selling POS, Exhibition Solutions and Digital Printing offering a wide range of services and products from concept, design, consultancy, project management, production and installation. Working predominantly within the retail and exhibition markets, you will need a proven track record and ability to win new business and develop existing clients achieving a pre-agreed sales target.

The successful candidate will have a proven print sales background, excellent communication skills and it is essential you have relevant experience within the print industry. The position is a long term commitment and will provide the successful applicant with an unlimited opportunity to develop and expand their own ambitions within the company. The actual salary and package offering will be wholly dependent on the potential of the successful candidate but based on our industry expectations.
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Digital Project Manager

Digital Project Manager
West Midlands
c£25k
Ref: AH36

An independent full service marketing communications agency is looking for a Digital Project Manager with few years experience from an agency background.
You'll have a flair for everything digital and we're looking for a highly motivated individual who wants to take ownership of a project from pitch to sign-off.
You'll serve as the main point of contact for clients and will be very much hands-on with exceptional client and project management skills.
We're looking for someone who has solid online marketing and web development experience as you'll manage the full project lifecycle of web site and web application development as well as other digital projects.
Key skill areas include:
Client liaison and relationship building
Taking briefs and writing proposals
Ability to work in a team environment with design, technical and senior board
Project scoping and developing site maps, wireframes and functional specifications
Ability to spot opportunities to cross-sell additional digital services
Exceptional project management skills

If you're looking for an agency where your talent can flourish and where you really can make a difference, then this is an ideal opportunity.
If successful, you'll be working on a host of exciting digital projects ranging from traditional site design and build to microsite development, email campaigns, social media activity and more

We're looking for someone who's got a strong base of digital experience within an agency environment, someone who thrives in the pace and demands of agency life, who has a clear passion for all things digital and who can not only keep clients happy, but also manage a variety of exciting digital projects through the agency.
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Digital Services Director

Digital Services Director
Worcestershire
£excellent dep on exp
Ref: AH38

Digital Services Director required for a successful integrated marketing communication agency with an interested established client base. The role will involve the development and management of the agency’s digital services.

The key accountabilities are to deliver digital production & support services, establish of policies, processes and standards for all digital service delivery, recommendation of third party products and services used to deliver digital services and manage those suppliers, advising the agency board on digital strategy & contributing to business development by advising and supporting the business development director.

You will be an excellent communicator enjoy building strong relationships with colleagues, clients & suppliers. From an agency background you will have strong digital project management skills. Able to demonstrable understanding of latest trends and developments in web and mobile technology, with a strong grasp of core concepts of web usability, web standards compliance, web design,web development and search engine optimisation

Desirable additional skills and experience: HTML/CSS coding, deployment of WordPress as CMS, web server management (LAMP stack), management of web developers or outsourced development teams & management of online marketing campaigns (SEO, PPC, email).

This is an exciting time for an experienced Digital Services Director to join this agency, if you feel you fit this role please forward your CV.
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Web Developer

Web Developer
Worcestershire
c£23k
Ref: WD18

Successful integrated marketing service agency is looking for a Web Developer to join its team. The role will involve developing web sites, web applications, mobile applications and other digital products and contribute to ongoing support for a wide range of the agencies digital clients.

Key accountabilities will include: Web site development using CMS platform and other selected technologies, custom code development to deliver functionality required by clients, provide ongoing code support to all delivered products, contribute to agency’s collective digital expertise through own research, and adhere to the company’s policy, process and standards for all digital service delivery.


Core skills and required experience
• HTML/CSS to W3C standards
• Very strong PHP and MySQL skills
• Extensive experience of deployment and development with WordPress as CMS
• Strong experience of custom web development, database development and data
integrations
• Strong jQuery experience
• Web server management (LAMP stack)
• Source code/version management
• Demonstrable understanding of latest trends and developments in web and mobile
technology, including HTML5, CSS3 and cloud-based data hosting
• Strong grasp of core concepts of web usability, web standards compliance, web design and search engine optimisation.


Desirable additional skills and experience: Web design, Customer service/support, Collaborative working with other web developers and Onsite search engine optimisation.

PHP Web Developer

PHP Web Developer
Leicestershire
£Salary dependant on experience
Ref: WD17

An established web design and development agency is looking for a talented and enthusiastic web developer with a passion for developing to best practices in PHP, MySQL, Apache, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Working as part of a team you will be building and maintaining a range of web sites, from interface development utilising web standards and JavaScript to database driven bespoke web sites and Apache server configuration and maintenance.
You will be directly involved with the specification and build of new web sites, helping to analyse requirements and ensure a consistently high standard of delivery as well as trouble shooting and issue resolution. The role will also involve direct client communication including working and delivering to agreed project timescales.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a genuine passion for the web and have a passion to learn.
Required experience:
Hands-on production programming and development experience with Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, jQuery/JavaScript, ideally with some experience using a framework such as Zend, Symfony or Codeignitor.
Good HTML, CSS, XHTML and XML skills.
Familiarity with browser compatibility issues and fixes.
Experience with both object oriented and procedural PHP.
Understanding of coding methods, best practice and knowledge of source control such as Subversion.
Excellent organisational skills, ability to tightly manage time and project responsibilities.
Excellent communication skills
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Monday, 10 January 2011

Digital Account Manager - West Midlands

Digital Account Manager
West Midlands
c£25k
Ref: AH36

An independent full service marketing communications agency is looking for a Digital Account Manager with few years experience from an agency background. Ideally you will be tactile, someone who can develop strategies over time, who understands marketing, new media and creative work, is a really hands-on account manager and can come up with new ideas, tactics and identify opportunities for the client.
The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, good digital marketing experience and ability to building strong working relationships within the agency. You will be a trusted first point of call for day to day client enquiries, develop a strong relationship with individual clients, be consistent in client updates, and be constantly assessing opportunities to develop client business opportunities. They are looking for someone who is enthusiastic & knowledgeable especially about the web and social media. They are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, organised & knowledgeable, who really enjoys their account handling responsibilities and loves everything about multi-media. If this sounds like you please forward your CV.
Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

Junior Account Manager - West Midlands

Junior Account Manager
West Midlands
c£18 – 20k
Ref: AH35

Are you an articulate and enthusiastic Junior Account Manager with an agency background looking to further their career within a positive, happy and busy independent full service marketing communications agency? If so, this may be the ideal opportunity for you.

The agency is looking for someone with a few years experience with excellent communication skills, good all round marketing experience, with an interest and understanding of multimedia. You will be a valued team member constantly liaising with clients and colleagues to ensure an excellent service and client retention. They are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, organised & knowledgeable, who really enjoys their account handling responsibilities and loves everything about multi-media. If this sounds like you please forward your CV.

Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk