Digital Designer (Marketing)

Location: MMM Headquarters – London
Position: Contract

 

 

Mail Metro Media (https://www.mailmetromedia.co.uk/) is the unified advertising division of dmg media, representing some of Britain’s most popular media brands; Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Metro and Metro.co.uk, i, inews.co.uk and now the Telegraph papers.

Reaching 1 in 5 UK adults every single day and over 70% of the population every month across all of our titles, we have the largest printed scale and most engaged websites in the UK.

Our brands communicate to unique audiences from 16 to 75+ – offering an unrivalled marketplace for brands to advertise.

The Mail Metro Media team provides one single point of contact across print, digital and more, allowing agencies and advertisers easy access to the millions of consumers who engage with us daily. Each department is equipped to support seamless cross-platform delivery across all brands.

Leadership:

Mail Metro Media is led by Chief Revenue Officer, Dominic Williams – responsible for digital advertising revenue, partnerships and client relationships; Executive Director of Investment, Grant Woodthorpe – responsible for print revenues; Hannah Buitekant, Executive Director Digital – responsible for digital operations, data and indirect revenue; and Executive Director of Direct Sales, Martin Smith – responsible for all direct sales.

 

Visit https://www.linkedin.com/company/mail-metro-media/

Twitter: @MailMetroMedia

 

Why work for Mail Metro Media?

• Be part of the biggest media organisation in the UK
• We care about our people first and foremost – supporting their mental health, providing fitness classes and training on diversity and inclusion
• We are a Disability Confident employer
• Work in a fast paced, vibrant environment where the core values of entrepreneurialism, purpose and excellence resonate in daily activities

 

About the role

Working in partnership with our Creative Director, you will be responsible to design, build and create strong emails communications supporting the business strategy and digital marketing.  Be the subject matter expert in email design and template builds for many different business objectives.

Oversee the development and execution of all physical emails

 

This role is right for you if...

You thrive in both the design & development of responsive emails and landing pages, plus a desire to improve your campaigns by using data and insight. You’ll ideally be from an agency or publisher background. The role is fast paced and responsive working across multiple different projects.

 

About the team you will be joining?

Candidate will report to the Creative Director, Digital. Role is based on-site at our High Street Kensington office. Currently the team is remotely working from home until further notice.

 

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for design and development of (across desktop, tablet, mobile & app):
  • Responsive HTML emails
  • Responsive HTML5 landing pages
  • Display advertising
• Develop the look and narrative structure for a variety of design campaigns including and not limited to moodboards, concepts, mock-ups and storyboards.
• Proactively monitor output quality, accuracy, and consistency.
• Develop an effective working relationship with colleagues and clients to plan campaigns and setting KPI’s.
• Perform campaign specific quality assurance testing to validate functional and rendering performance across all devices and platforms
• Execute A/B and multivariate tests using creative to help improve the campaign understanding and objectives
• Provide insight into best performing creatives and recommendations on improvements using data and insight to make these decisions
• Ensure email deliverability is faultless and monitoring platforms for feedback on possible spam/blocks or inbox delivery issues
• Effectively manage projects within agreed timescales.
• Participate actively in brainstorms, giving creative input on ideas, styles and formats
• Work proactively under your own initiative and as part of the design team.
• Support the Creative Director, Lead Designer and Senior Designer where possible
• Keeping up to date with current design, digital and email trends

 

Person Specification

• Accurate and consistent creative output quality delivered on time.
• Collaboration and professional relationship with creative, account, project and CRM teams.
• Every project produced is of the highest quality and delivered on time.
• Impact beyond the assignment.
• Competent in Adobe Photoshop.
• A strong self-starter, will be confident and experienced in planning, designing, and coding emails and landing pages and have an ability to effectively troubleshoot practical and technical problems associated with the production of the creative.
• Knowledge in HTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery coding language for landing pages.
• Knowledge in designing & building HTML responsive emails to perfection across various types of mailboxes.
• Strong understating of the purpose of the email campaigns and how to design and build the emails to achieve their goals
• Ability to adhere to each brand’s guidelines and meticulous attention to details.
• Comfortable with tight deadlines and highly organized.

 

Team core values & purpose

Our purpose is to produce creative digital creative solutions that appeal to our readers across all Mail Metro Media brands. We are built on our values which are:

Be Ambitious - to succeed

Be Imaginative - to push the boundaries of what's possible

Be Inspirational - to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening - to understand

Be Results-focused - to exceed expectations

 

Diversity, Inclusion & Flexibility

Mail Metro Media is committed to diversity, inclusion & flexibility, through our ideas, our people, how we behave and conduct ourselves. Creating a truly inclusive culture at all levels of the organisation that encourages different points of view, making Mail Metro Media not only a better company and place to work but an environment where everyone experiences connection, opportunity and a sense of belonging.

Many of our employees work flexibly in many different ways, including flexible hours or an element of working from home. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you may need.

 

 

 

Contact us for more information?

 

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

For candidates please contact:

Kate Moore

Talent Partner

E: [email protected]

 

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.