Graphic Designer

Corporate Overview

For 75 years Global Industrial has been an industry leader known for our "roll-up-your-sleeves approach" that offers industrial equipment and supplies to businesses throughout the United States & Canada. Our success is built on a strong foundation of bedrock ideals that are laid out in our Mission, Vision, and Core Values:

• Mission: To keep businesses going and growing through our tag line of "WE CAN SUPPLY THAT"
• Vision: To deliver an unrivaled customer experience for all of our business partners.
• Core Values: We are one team. We collaborate, break down silos, and "pitch in" where & when needed. We don't stand by and let others fail.

We carry hundreds of thousands of industrial, material handling and business products including our own Global Industrial Exclusive Brands plus top national brands that are sold through our website, corporate sales team and quarterly full-color catalogs. Global Industrial specializes in a wide range of industrial and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) products and are constantly increasing our product offerings to meet the diverse and changing needs of our customers. Our customers include small to large corporations, institutions, government agencies, and consumers across North America.

Global Industrial is seeking a Graphic Designer to join our diverse creative team. The ideal candidate is a motivated and proactive individual who thrives in a deadline-driven environment, who is able to process, react to and design on demand in a team setting. The perfect candidate has a strong sense of aesthetics, an eye for detail, and the ability to create distinct designs. You will work with the team and design a variety of marketing materials including; catalogue pages, sell sheets and emails adhering to our value proposition and brand standards while helping drive the organization's strategic priorities and other key objectives. This individual should be well versed with the Adobe suite of products and should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• • Work as part of a dynamic team bringing our emails, marketing materials and brand to life
  • Meet with Merchandising team to review goals & content for different projects, and give feedback on how you will influence the design
  • Meet with Planning & Strategy team to review creative briefs in detail and decide how the design will to be approached, which template will be used, and if more is required
  • Design all projects that maintain & highlight campaign goals, brand guidelines and core design principles to make sure content displays well and is engaging
  • Present designs to Creative team leaders, Email Strategy team and design peers, walking them through the designs and providing rationale for design decisions made
  • Take in feedback and/or constructive criticism and turn edits around quickly
  • Review all designs, again, in weekly creative review with the possibility of further feedback and revisions
  • Deploy designs to be coded
  • Design new email and marketing templates as needed to accommodate new marketing initiatives

• Graphic/Web Design skills
• Bachelor's degree, or its equivalent, and 2-4 years of experience in the field or in a related area
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat
• Strong background in core design principles including; hierarchy, composition, & typography
• Experience designing engaging emails with an understanding of the medium's unique needs & how audiences interact with them
• Have an eye for clean and engaging designs that represents & reinforces the company's brand and voice
• Working knowledge of HTML as it pertains to email design
• Ability to take in constructive feedback and turn around revisions quickly
• Design in a fast-paced environment while collaborating with others
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent spelling and proofreading skills
• Ability to focus and meet deadlines
• Ability to communicate with product experts
• Effective oral & written communication skills
• Ability to adopt new technology & SOPs
• Cross-functional leadership/collaboration
• Strong customer focus
• Data-driven decision making
• Integrity

The pay range for this position will be 63,000 to 76,000 annually. The exact pay will be determined by multiple factors unique to each individual, including years of experience, certifications, and the specific location of the job. Rates may vary in other areas due to differing labor costs.

Global Industrial provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.