Graphic Designer

The Graphic Design Specialist is responsible for creating and executing innovative graphic and promotional materials for the hotel. This role involves supporting the Marketing & Communications team with various design tasks and ensuring adherence to brand guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Formulate, conceptualise, produce and install all graphical assets for the hotel where required, with minimal supervision.
• Creates website, online and social media graphical assets whether through illustrations, software, and/or photographs according to what is required.
• Good and clear understanding of brand guidelines for collateral.
• Coming up with the most appropriate creative elements (visual and assets) to be created for particular projects, along with making sure that it adheres to the hotel’s brand guidelines and tone.
• Assists with brand standards policing.
• Maintains the brand style guide and asset library.
• Illustrates concept by designing rough layout of artwork incorporating pagination (if necessary), artwork size, type and style, and other related aesthetic concepts.
• Obtains approval of concept by submitting layout options.
• Prepares finished copy and final material by operating in-house printer and similar equipment.
• Liaise with third party printers and vendors from initial point wherever necessary and follow through the process to final delivery of product.
• Maintains stock control of printed collateral.
• To shoot and produce photos, videos and footages of the necessary visual assets.
• Create storyboards to plan out the videos and footages that need to be shot.
• Utilise the assets to make short animations or moving images.
• Editing videos and create motion graphics to render them into final products that can be released for public awareness.
• Ensure that all assets and design artwork are up to standard as approved by all parties.
• Keeps abreast of the latest trends in graphics and design.
• Support and execute all other tasks as assigned by Director of Marketing Communications.
• Demonstrate co-operation and trust with colleagues, supervisors, teams and across departments to deliver positive results through daily communication, actively participating in hotel meetings and coordination.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to think -out-of-the-box.
• Making sure all assigned tasks/ project deadlines are met.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent in Hotel Management/Mass Communication.
• Minimum 2 years experiences in graphic-design related position, preferably with an agency or internal marketing department.
• Must be detail and deadline-oriented, communicative, able to multi-task on projects requiring differing skills sets, while maintaining high standards of work on a tight schedule in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in Graphic Design skills, Layout Skills, Creative Services, Customer Focus, Creativity, Flexibility, and Desktop Publishing Tools – high proficiency in graphics programmes such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dream Weaver, Adobe after Effects, Adobe Premier Pro.
• Ability to work on PC platform using Windows. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Power point).
• Must present design portfolio with variety of styles and deliverables represented.

Key Skills

• Graphic Design skills
• Layout Skills
• Creative Services
• Customer Focus
• Creativity
• Flexibility
• Desktop Publishing Tools
• Proficiency in graphics programmes such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dream Weaver, Adobe after Effects, Adobe Premier Pro

Benefits

• Join our extraordinary world and experience a place where you can be yourself, share your ideas, support your personal growth and wellbeing, and be a valued member of an inspirational team.
• Our career journey will be supported through our lifelong development program, IHG career milestone celebrations, and transfer of entitlements as you move and grow with IHG.
• Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics.