About Lippincott/Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 60 cities across 29 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. Our 5000 professionals help clients optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman’s thought leadership is evident in our agenda-setting books, white papers, research reports, and articles in the business press. Our clients are the CEOs and executive teams of the top Global 1000 companies.
Visit our website for more details about Oliver Wyman: www.lippincott.com / www.oliverwyman.com
Job Overview:
The design team plays a pivotal role in offering creative solutions to brand, innovation, and culture challenges. Whether it’s perfecting the cadence of a key presentation or discovering a new path to engage users in an online experience, we lend the best of design thinking to the rest of our practices, from Strategy to Organizational Engagement, Innovation, New Business, and internal or marketing initiatives.
As a Designer Director at Lippincott, you will work with teammates to help develop thoughtful, beautiful design solutions. You will design innovative, integrated solutions across a range of static, dynamic and interactive media (print, digital, 3D, motion and environmental). You will be both conceptually and idea driven, focused on forging meaningful connections with consumers and businesses across a broad range of media. In addition to developing great design solutions, you will also help manage projects by coordinating with team members — both junior and senior — and with clients. This role provides the opportunity to begin developing leadership skills and a unique, discerning point of view as you contribute to the work.
Key responsibilities:
Design Creatively and Strategically
Leveraging firm resources, initiate problem solving and develop preliminary concepts into refined, comprehensive design solutions
Help guide the design development process from start to finish — participate in team ideation, help advance all concepts, and check accuracy and quality of all deliverables to highest standards
Develop and write detailed and organized design and branding guidelines
Research and Build Ideas
Conduct design research, contributing to communications audits and moodboard creation
Stay up-to-date on trends and new techniques in the design world, as well as best practices in user experience and interface design, integrating those findings and understanding into the projects
Probe more deeply into concepts and design solutions when confronted with inconsistent and challenging findings
Develop case studies and public reference, including storyboarding, gathering materials, updating exhibits, etc.
Manage Time and Projects
Prioritize tasks to meet needs and deadlines across multiple projects and multiple teams
Anticipate challenges that may affect project timelines and address with Partners on the project
Work within budget and time constraints
Participate in managing projects as required, taking a leadership role at times and prioritizing the workload for others
Document and archive all work and files logically and in a timely manner for team/studio access
Begin to act as a mentor to junior staff, providing design direction and assisting in their development
Begin to assist in recruitment efforts
Communicate and Collaborate
Communicate project objectives clearly to team members and clients
Clearly articulate design ideas, share research findings and explain thought process to team members —both in writing and in person
Constructively participate in team ideation and design critiques
Share specific and actionable feedback to team members
Assist in producing and occasionally delivering client presentations
Be involved in maintaining the client relationship, acting as a Lippincott representative, working with and influencing junior client contacts, participating in client calls and meetings, and gathering and communicating feedback to the team
Assist in producing new business proposals
We look for you to:
Be Knowledgeable
A design-related Bachelor’s degree or equivalent portfolio (postgraduate degree a plus)
5+ years of graphic design experience in a professional setting
A proven ability to apply basic design principles to creative work across a range of experiences (print, digital, 3D, motion and environmental)
The ability to incorporate inputs from strategy, research and other disciplines into design development
The ability to think creatively while building on and relating work to past experience
An understanding of interaction design and development processes, including information design and content architecture
Knowledge of motion/film and animation a plus
Be Skilled
The ability to design consistently across a range of static, dynamic and interactive media (print, digital and web, three-dimensional, environmental, etc.)
Extensive technical ability with Adobe Suite and familiarity with MS Office; a working knowledge of digital prototyping and UX wire framing is a plus; a working knowledge of motion or film editing is also a plus
With a basic understanding of color management and media requirements, the ability to prepare production-ready assets and to package files for distribution and digital implementation
Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.
Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.