Presentation Designer

Job overview:

In this role, you are first and foremost a business communicator who collaborates with partners and consultants to transform concepts into compelling visual presentations.

You should apply if you are highly motivated, willing to learn new things, have an aesthetic eye, and excellent attention to detail. You are also deadline driven, organized and understand how people view and understand content.

Key Responsibilities:

• Branding
  • Actively seeks opportunities to deepen understanding of the brand's core values and visual identity.
  • Develop the skill to recognize deviations from the brand's standards and aesthetics.
• Process
  • Diligently follows established processes, ensuring consistency and accuracy in creative execution.
  • Learns and applies best practices for addressing common creative challenges, delivering solutions that are effective and reliable.
• Project Management
  • Receives priorities, projects, and scope directly from their manager or project manager.
  • Works closely with their manager to help estimate timelines for tasks and projects, ensuring a clear understanding of deadlines.
• Production
  • Skillfully applies previously defined concepts to all assets, ensuring consistency.
  • Follows style guides or templates closely to execute all production work accurately.
  • Has a firm grasp of the entire production process, from initial concept to final output.
• Creative Competency[1]
  • Aim to understand the thinking that informed a concept and how it relates to the project objectives.
  • Applies and adapts established design concepts to projects under close supervision.
  • Participates in brainstorming sessions, learning to incorporate feedback and understand broader creative goals.
• Innovation & Adaptability
  • Actively seeks new techniques and tools that enhance personal creativity and productivity.
  • Quickly adapts to new project requirements and changes in design briefs, maintaining high-quality outputs.
• Communication
  • Practices verbal and written communication effectively, both in one-on-one settings and within groups.
  • Works with managers to simplify complex ideas, making them understandable to those outside the project.
  • Is responsive, approachable, and proactive across all communication channels. Presents work clearly in critiques and maintains well-organized design documentation.
• Soliciting Opinion
  • Actively seeks and responds to feedback on their work, showing openness to various perspectives to refine their creative outputs.
  • Regularly invites opinions from peers and managers to enhance personal growth and improve project outcomes.
• Leadership
  • Challenges project requirements to ensure a human-centered approach in all designs.
  • Provides actionable feedback to peers, helping to enhance their work and encourage growth.
• Culture
  • Actively participate in company culture activities. Attends company-wide events to stay informed about organizational activities.
  • Volunteer to assist with team programs and contribute to spreading creative thinking and enthusiasm within the team.
  • Credit others for their ideas and work and embraces differing opinions constructively.
• Ethics & Compliance
  • Gains a basic understanding of ethical design principles and compliance related to privacy, copyright, and inclusivity.
  • Apply ethical considerations in creating designs that are accessible and do not misrepresent or appropriate cultural elements.
• AI
  • Understand the role of AI tools in the creative team. Learn how these tools can assist in basic tasks such as image generation, ideation, or content creation, helping to enhance efficiency and creativity.
  • Start exploring and experimenting with various AI-based design tools (e.g., Adobe Firefly) to assist with routine tasks.

[1] Creative Competency Elements: Ideation, Typography, Layout design, Colors, Imagery, Brand consistency

Experience required:

• At least 4 years of presentation design experience
• Excellent knowledge of PowerPoint, advance knowledge of Excel and Word, and good knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
• Client-centric mentality, can-do attitude
• Aesthetic eye and interest in design subjects
• Excellent attention to detail
• Eager to learn new skills

Skills and Attributes:

• Advanced Technical Skills: Demonstrates a high level of expertise within their discipline, capable of delivering complex and varied outputs with minimal supervision.
• Brand Interpretation: Strong ability to adapt and interpret brand guidelines creatively across different mediums and projects.
• Project Ownership: Confidently manages projects from start to finish, ensuring quality, consistency, and alignment with project goals.
• Collaboration and Communication: Communicates effectively with peers and stakeholders, contributing to a positive and productive team dynamic.
• Problem-Solving and Innovation: Proactively addresses challenges with innovative solutions, balancing creativity with project objectives.

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Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a management consulting firm combining deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise to help clients optimize their business, improve operations and accelerate performance. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.