Senior Graphic Designer

This position is available across set shift patterns (NIGHT SHIFT, MID SHIFT, DAY SHIFT). During the screening process, you will have the opportunity to discuss your shift preference, and we will do our best to accommodate preferences based on business requirements.

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Job Purpose

• The Graphic Design Specialist is a senior-level individual contributor who also serves as a subject matter expert in graphic design.
• This role provides strategic design guidance, ensures quality alignment across outputs, and mentors team members in collaboration with the Team Leader.
• The Specialist contributes to production work while elevating the overall creative standards and design thinking within the team.
• Operates as a visionary and thought leader. Anticipates future design trends and organisational needs. Champions innovation and continuous improvement. Coaches and inspires at all levels. Advocates for design as a strategic business driver.
• Measurable impact on brand equity and market differentiation. Adoption and compliance with enterprise design standards. Innovation metrics (new tools, processes, or methodologies implemented). Recognition in industry awards or publications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and implement organizational change across cross-functional teams, including experience in restructures, process improvements, and transformation initiatives.
• Strong business acumen with a collaborative mindset, able to partner closely with both internal teams and external business stakeholders to understand and deliver on strategic requirements.
• Future leadership potential with a flexible, growth-oriented approach, capable of evolving into a team lead role while maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders across functions.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Act as a design authority and specialist, ensuring high-quality, brand-aligned visual outputs across all projects.
• Provide expert-level design execution and contribute to complex production tasks.
• Mentor and coach graphic designers, supporting their growth in design skills, conceptual thinking, and creative problem-solving.
• Collaborate with the Team Leader to align design standards, methodologies, and best practices across the team.
• Review and provide constructive feedback on design work to ensure consistency, quality, and innovation.
• Serve as a go-to resource for design-related decisions, tools, and techniques.
• Support cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders, including in-country teams, GBAs, and Growth groups, to ensure design solutions meet business needs.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of design processes, tools, and templates.
• Stay current with industry trends, tools, and technologies to bring fresh perspectives and innovation to the team.
• Assist in onboarding new designers by sharing design standards and expectations.
• Design Quality Score: Average rating from internal reviews and stakeholder feedback
• Design Consistency: Percentage of outputs aligned with brand and design standards
• Production Efficiency: Timeliness of deliverables against agreed timelines
• Innovation Contribution: Number of new design ideas, tools, or process improvements proposed and implemented.
• Makes final decisions on enterprise design direction, brand evolution, and adoption of new design technologies; sets long‑term visual communication strategy.

Knowledge & Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience leading a team of at least 10 members
• More than 10 years experience in the relevant field of graphics/multimedia.
• Bachelor's degree in Arts/Design, Creative Multimedia, Advertising/Media or an equivalent experience in the field
• Proven graphic & multimedia design experience
• Advance knowledge in Adobe Creative Cloud applications
• Fundamental apps
  • Adobe Photoshop: Advance
  • Adobe Illustrator: Advance
  • Adobe InDesign: Advance
• With experience in creating and editing videos
  • Adobe Premier Pro: Intermediate to Advance
  • Adobe After Effects: Intermediate to Advance
  • Adobe Audition and Media Encoder: Fundamentals
• With insight and experience in other creative apps is a plus
• UI/UX knowledge or experience is a plus.
• Possess creative flair, versatility, conceptual ability.
• Demonstrate graphic design skills with a strong portfolio across print and digital assets.
• Up to date and skilled with fundamental Graphic/Multimedia design industry leading software and technologies
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications, ideally in Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Comprehensive knowledge of performance metrics

Key Qualifications

• Ability to handle confidential or sensitive information
• A blend of analytical skills, intellectual curiosity, and reporting acumen
• A critical thinker and problem-solver
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Has leadership skills, including the ability to motivate and mentor other team members
• Ability to work effectively with stakeholders across the organization
• Highly organized especially in working within Microsoft SharePoint platform
• Ability to make decisions quickly and confidently, taking into account the needs of the team and the organization as a whole
• Exceptional design judgment and attention to detail.
• Ability to mentor and influence without direct authority.
• Strong communication skills to articulate design rationale and collaborate with non-design stakeholders.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Organizational and time-management skills, especially in managing multiple design projects.
• Ability to work independently while contributing to team goals.

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark; on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.

Join Arcadis. Create a legacy.