Trade Marketing Designer

Who we are
We create trusted, expert content that helps millions of people discover more about the things they love, need and care about. From technology, gaming and entertainment to fashion, lifestyle, sport, finance and beyond, our specialist brands connect people with their passions every day.

Across websites, magazines, newsletters, social channels and events, we bring expert content to audiences around the world. We combine our deep specialist knowledge with innovative technology and data to create engaging experiences, build valuable communities and help people make better-informed decisions.

Behind it all are our people - passionate experts, creators, innovators and problem-solvers who are shaping the future of media.

The Team You’ll Join

The Trade Marketing team serves as the primary contact for Future’s Commercial team and champions and communicates Future’s brand to our advertising partners through strategic marketing campaigns and creative story-telling. 

Trade Marketing is responsible for Future brand building, PR, sales collateral, and client engagement events. The team also generates audience insights that bring our monthly audiences of over 300 million to life for our commercial teams and advertisers. The objective of the team is to drive awareness of Future and create commercial opportunities through sales collaterals, case studies, events, email and PR. Our team drives brand and tentpole moments across a diverse portfolio of titles.

What you'll do

The Trade Marketing Designer is a key position within the Trade Marketing team, you’re primarily responsible for bringing our brand to life and to visually communicate our brand to our advertiser audiences around the world. 

Reporting to the Lead Trade Marketing Designer, the aim of this role is to deliver compelling marketing materials that engage our clients and visually set us apart from the competition. This post will create awareness of the Future brand through design of presentations, templates, HTML emails and landing pages, infographics, social assets, and sales materials.

Over this 6 month fixed term contract, you will work alongside marketing leadership based in the UK, and our wider design teams to help bring ideas to life. The ability to communicate with multi-disciplinary teams while managing your workload is the key to success in this role.  

What you’ll bring

• Experience creating compelling designs for commercial teams, ideally within digital media, publishing or an advertising environment.
• Strong awareness of current creative trends and the ability to apply them to design projects.
• Understanding of HTML would be advantageous.
• A strategic and creative thinker with a proactive, solutions-focused approach to problem-solving.