Job Description

Presentations Designer

Salary £30,247 per annum, plus company benefits

Location Leeds LS10

Contract Permanent, full time

Hours 37.5 hours per week, Mon-Fri 10am-6pm with a 1-hour break

Some flexibility for overtime or occasional weekend work required.

Work model Hybrid following successful completion of the probationary period

Williams Lea is looking for a Presentations Designer to join our team!

Williams Lea is the leading global provider of tech-enabled business and marketing services helping clients manage and transform processes through resilient, scalable 24/7 operations. We combine deep expertise, agentic AI-embedded workflows, and a global delivery model into a tech-enabled, seamless human expert-in-the-loop experience that helps clients achieve superior business outcomes.

Built on a strong heritage and great client relationships, we harness deep industry expertise, emerging technology and our global “Optishore™” delivery model to plan, build, execute and measure business processes, driving operational agility and digital transformation at speed and scale.

Williams Lea, an RRD company, serves clients in 20 countries across four continents and has 15,000 employees worldwide.

Purpose of the Role

Williams Lea is looking for a skilled Presentations Designer to join a fast-paced, on-demand design studio within the banking sector. The ideal candidate will have at least three years' experience in presentations design and document formatting within the financial industry.

This role involves regular interaction with clients and close collaboration with colleagues to foster creativity and innovation within the team. Operating in a highly compliant and professional environment, the candidate will deliver seamless, on-brand creative material that exceeds client expectations.

Working closely with banking teams across the globe, the successful candidate will provide creative design solutions while demonstrating an excellent eye for detail and a strong understanding of brand purpose, consistency, and adherence across all communication materials.

We are seeking someone who can communicate effectively and professionally with clients, manage tasks independently, and collaborate with the wider design team to develop fresh, innovative ideas for PowerPoint pitchbooks, presentations, and slides.

Key responsibilities include creating high‑quality design and artwork, with a primary focus on presentation template design and the creation and refinement of slides. The role will involve working extensively with Microsoft Office tools such as PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, alongside Adobe Creative Cloud. While deliverables may occasionally include other types of design assets, these will form a smaller portion of the role. Strong experience with Windows systems is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Confident in liaising with clients to discuss business objectives, understand the requirements of the job, and advise on the creative brief
• Capable of understanding and interpreting the clients’ business needs
• Able to think creatively, providing fresh ideas that are appropriate for the brand
• and audience
• Capable of applying excellent illustrative skills, including the creation of diagrams, infographics, maps, charts, and graphs
• Able to create designs in a timely manner, from creative concepts through to final artwork delivery, working to both digital and print specifications
• Capable of converting and formatting supplied financial content including graphics, charts, tables, and multimedia elements as needed
• Confident and articulate in presenting ideas and concepts to clients
• Able to apply sharp attention to detail, providing quality control of own work
• and others
• Capable of negotiating deadlines in a calm, professional, and accommodating manner
• Competent and punctual in completing Excel job timesheets daily, providing an accurate reflection of time spent on all projects
• Confident in liaising with external suppliers of services to ensure that work meets exact requirements as specified
• Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously, adhering to project timelines and deadlines
• Act as a liaison between the creative team and other teams/departments to ensure effective collaboration and smooth workflow
• Capable of complying with, and following brand guidelines, legal requirements, and industry standards
• Able to interpret and implement client edits across working documents and collateral
• Skilled with brand implementation (understanding the brand strategy and applying it to all areas of the work that comes into the department)
• Able to provide technical support and problem solving across projects and tasks
• Capable of providing regular updates to the workflow coordinator at every project stage, along with accurate and thorough handovers when required
• Responsibility for own work, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and quality
• Able to guide and advise other teams members with the design and use of template material, providing help with training where necessary
• Competent in pre-empting technical issues and coordinating with external print or digital suppliers where necessary

Key Competencies

• Over 3 years of professional design and document production experience
• Formal training in design/visual communication, to graduate degree level
• or equivalent
• Ability to create and develop compelling concepts and offer innovative solutions
• Good brand awareness and sensitivity, working intuitively with or without brand guidelines
• Creative flair and confidence in presenting and articulating ideas to clients
• and colleagues
• Ability to balance work across several projects simultaneously
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Proactive with self-development, utilising online training materials and resources
• Ability to work well within a team, and to be helpful and supportive of the development of others
• Strong skills in using Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Teams, as well as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, while working on PC Windows systems
• Ability and openness with learning new software, platforms or tools, where required
• Experienced in pre-press, including checking files before sending to printers, working with complex cutter guides, templates, measurements, and colour setup

Personal Specifications and Attributes

• Calm and able to work under pressure. Self-motivated, with the ability to work independently and in a team environment, often to tight deadlines
• Strong creative and technical knowledge
• Excellent attention to detail, with a proactive approach to checking and ensuring the quality of work
• Flexibility in working hours
• Client-focused approach, with personal commitment to the client and their business, building effective client relationships based on trust, flexibility, and professionalism
• Good people skills, keeping clients informed of progress and processes involved
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and work within time constraints
• Ability to take constructive feedback from both clients and senior colleagues to help develop understanding of the client’s brand and project requirements
• Good interpersonal skills must be able to communicate clearly, confidently and respectfully with colleagues and clients at all levels​

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Rewards and Benefits

We believe in supporting our employees in both their professional and personal lives. As part of our commitment to your well-being, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays(pro-rata for part time or fixed term roles)

• Salary sacrifice schemes, retail vouchers – including our TechScheme which can be used on a range of gadgets such as Smart TV’s, laptops and computers or household appliances.

• Life Assurance

• Private Medical Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Health Assessments

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• Discounted gym memberships

• Referral Scheme

You will also have the opportunity to work for a global employer who is dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects!

Equality and Diversity

The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (each of these being a “protected characteristic” in discrimination law). It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values openness, fairness and transparency.

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