Job Overview

We are seeking a Design Director to join our Design team at Mercer. You will be joining us in building Oliver Wyman’s new in-house creative hub in Lisbon.

This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

As a Design Director, you will lead the charge in ensuring design excellence across all creative outputs, elevating the visual quality and maintaining consistency with our brand standards. With a focus on craftsmanship and execution, you’ll oversee the development of design systems, refine creative workflows, and mentor a diverse team of designers to deliver exceptional work across editorial, motion, and digital platforms.

This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on design oversight. You'll act as the final gatekeeper for creative quality, reviewing and approving outputs to ensure they meet the highest standards of visual execution. By fostering collaboration across teams and driving innovation in design approaches, you’ll shape the studio’s creative output and contribute to the brand’s success on a global scale.

We will count on you to:

Oversee and ensure the quality of all design outputs, maintaining alignment with brand guidelines.

Develop and implement scalable design systems and frameworks for use across all platforms.

Review and refine creative work, providing hands-on feedback to elevate design quality.

Drive innovation in visual design, identifying opportunities to push boundaries while ensuring consistency.

Mentor and guide designers to improve their technical and creative skills.

Collaborate with the Art Director, Creative Director, and cross-functional teams to ensure flawless execution of concepts.

Optimize creative processes and workflows to ensure efficient and high-quality delivery.

What makes you stand out?

Proven expertise in design leadership with a strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional design craft and quality.

Extensive experience in building and managing design systems and creative workflows.

Strong knowledge of typography, layout, and other core design principles.

Ability to provide detailed, constructive feedback to drive the team’s creative development.

Exceptional organizational and communication skills to manage resources and ensure efficiency.

Experience working with global teams and navigating cross-cultural collaboration.

Why join our team:

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.

We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.

Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

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Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a management consulting firm combining deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise to help clients optimize their business, improve operations and accelerate performance. Marsh McLennan 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 oliverwyman.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.