Graphic Designer

Position: Graphic Designer

Division: Tools & Outdoor | Global Customer Experience

Location: Virtual/UK

Who is Stanley Black & Decker?

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker (SBD) team means joining one of the world's largest, fastest-growing, and most dynamic companies. SBD, a Fortune 200 company is a world-leading provider of tools and storage and engineered fastening systems, with unique growth platforms and a track record of sustained profitable growth. We have been globally recognised as one of the most innovative, sustainable, and rewarding companies in the world.

Position Overview:

The Tools & Outdoor division of SBD, which drives $10B of the total $14B business, is currently seeking a Graphic Designer. This position will report to the Group Creative Manager, as part of the Global Customer Experience (GCX) team. This role will focus on generating on-brand assets to support our many brands advertising strategy.

Who We’re Looking For:

We are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated, well organised individual, who will be proactive and look to identify opportunities to streamline processes and work cross-functionally within the business and with wider GCX teams to develop and deliver best-in-class graphic solutions. This person will manage all day-to-day stewardship items, with accuracy and on-time. The Graphic Designer is constantly aware of project timelines and the print production process, to ensure color accuracy and consistency across all executions. The ideal candidate will have a strong design aesthetic with the ability to visually communicate a message clearly and creatively. This individual should be comfortable with creative, high-volume production, and producing design deliverables for omni-channel execution.

Responsibilities:

• Exceptional design and concepting skills across digital and traditional forms of output
• Contributing to the ideation & creation of logos, messaging, packaging, merchandising and digital solutions for various marketing campaigns
• Working with layers, color schemes, color correction, fonts, clipping paths, masks & die-lines
• Knowledge of pre-press and print production
• Proof and perform quality control on your own and other’s work in detail
• Demonstrate the ability to work under pressure and track details of multiple projects
• Interact with people at all levels internally, globally, and potentially with external vendors
• Ensuring all necessary information is provided before starting
  
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in design or relevant field preferred
• 1-3 years design experience
• Strong design aesthetic
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and MS Office
• Self-motivated with excellent time management skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced work environment
• Collaborative team player who can effectively communicate with various internal teams in a corporate environment
• Must be flexible and willing to adapt to the ever-changing needs of the business
• Ability to retouch images and apply styles/filter effects in-line with a Brands direction
• Ability to amend video footage, with ‘tracking’, compositing and motion graphic adjustments or replacements is an advantage
• Portfolio with relevant work experience and examples required
  
  
  

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are
We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

What You’ll Also Get
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development:

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:

You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.