Graphic Designer

What Is The Job?

Your Day To Day

• 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. Continues following up should there be further requirements with the third party.
• 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.

What We Need From You

• 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.
• Work collaboration with Revenue Manager, Director of Food & Beverage, and Executive Chef apart from Marketing Communications team.
• Able to attend to task on off day/ rest day/ and public holiday, where required.
• Communication skills are utilized a significant amount of time when interacting with clients and the guests.

How Do I Deliver This?

We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG^® hotels.

Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.

• True Attitude: being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests.
• True Confidence: having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay.
• True Listening: focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs.
• True Responsiveness: is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring manner.

There’s so much more to the job than we can capture here. It’s simply about creating great experiences, doing the right thing and understanding people.

What We Offer

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. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements in this job description are intended to represent the key duties and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be ALL responsibilities or qualifications of the job.