Brand and Design Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a Brand and Design Manager to be part of a fast paced, fast growing, and forward-thinking law firm. Our collaborative, supportive and open-minded environment is the ideal place to progress your career – whatever stage you’re at. We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors, and we’ll help you embrace opportunities to keep learning as we grow our firm.

Your Role

As a Brand and Design Manager, your day-to-day remit includes:

• TLT Brand Guardian, managing and developing the TLT brand, guidelines (design and tone of voice) and providing consultancy within M&BD and the rest of the firm 
• Driving brand awareness and engagement internally, providing training on the use of our visual identity and design templates; acting as the guardian of the firm’s visual identity
• Ongoing development and application of our visual identity across all channels, managing overall design delivery and production schedules for: 
  • Marketing collateral and pitch templates 
  • Website design, social media, email marketing, video & audio production 
  • Events stands and collateral, branded merchandise
  • Internal comms channels (Atlas, emails, etc.) and internal IT/HR systems (where possible) 
• Line managing an Executive and responsible for selecting, briefing and managing design agency relationships, working with approved third parties on joint activities 
• Measuring and reporting on brand awareness, favourability & engagement 
• Developing and maintaining design templates for internal and external use 

Your Skills and Experience

• Experience in brand marketing across a range of online and offline channels, knowledge and experience of the design process 
• Good understanding of brand identity and an ability to set guidelines 
• Experience in managing design agencies and budgets 
• Experience in training colleagues on creating and maintaining brand assets 
• Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign in particular) and Powerpoint design
• Confident, pro-active, good organisational skills and able to work well under pressure to drive projects to completion.

Your Team

The Business Development & Marketing team are instrumental in creating awareness of our brand to identify and win new business opportunities as well as delivering for our existing clients. This involves establishing and nurturing relationships and using everything from events to media relations to tenders to explore new business ideas. Within the team, have specialists in: Business Development, Bids, Internal and External Communications, Campaigns, PR, Client Engagement, Marketing and Design and Marketing Operations. TLT is different because we live our values. This comes down to the hard work we have put in building and promoting a strong brand that aligns to our business strategy.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance. 

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role. 

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com