ROLE DESCRIPTION

We are a football club with a desire to be the best and are always looking for talented people to join our Everton Family.

Everton is a workplace people crave to join, where extraordinary talented people belong, thrive and deliver the remarkable.

Commercial Designer

About the opportunity: Everton Football Club are in an exciting period of commercial growth, with an expanding portfolio of global brand partnerships and a new world class stadium in development.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced innovative creative to support our key commercial objectives and support the Commercial team with the acquisition and retention of new and existing commercial Club partners. This role will be integral in supporting the continued growth of the business as it enters one of the most transformative periods in its history.

We are looking for a highly creative Commercial Designer to drive and deliver the creative vision behind our sales proposition, developing unique and imaginative content that showcases the unique marketing platform Everton has to offer, whilst bringing partnership assets to life for some of the world’s biggest brands.

As Commercial Designer supporting the Commercial team, you will be responsible for developing partnership sales materials and presentations, producing globally appealing campaign concepts that integrate Club and Partner brands and creating eye-catching assets that showcase the potential of key partnership rights.

Other core responsibilities include:

Supporting our commercial outreach through adding value to the design process, applying your creative vision to produce industry-leading sales collateral to take to market.
Creating fully customised brand proposals that bring the potential of our commercial partnerships to life for brands that we are engaging with.
Developing graphics to illustrate sponsorship activations.
Working to schedules to ensure all work is put through the design studio accurately, on time and to brief.
Working collaboratively as part of the commercial team to strive towards commercial partnership revenue growth.
Supporting the development and creation of club-led campaigns to support commercial objectives, from conception through to execution across omni-channel platforms.
Ensuring all artwork supplied both internally and externally adheres to the Club’s brand guidelines, liaising with colleagues in the Design Studio and Marketing Team to maintain regular dialogue and good working relationships.
Interpreting briefs and independently managing schedule of commercial requirements to ensure creative concepts, solutions and campaign inventory delivered in a timely manner.

Knowledge & Experience:

Excellent knowledge and demonstrable experience of working with the Creative Cloud suite including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop (After Effects, Flash and PowerPoint desirable)
Experience working within a commercial setting.
Understanding of creative and brand strategy with the ability to apply understanding to marketing and commercial objectives.
Good knowledge of design trends
Understanding and confidence to apply and challenge guidelines.

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for a highly creative individual who will harness the story of Everton Football Club and be able to translate that into eye catching and compelling sales collateral. You will be driven by working as part of a wider team chasing commercial revenue targets and have a hunger to add value across the sales function.