Graphic Designer or Graphic Design Specialist

Company:NICO National Indemnity Company

Want to work for a company with unparalleled financial strength and stability that offers “large company” benefits with an exciting, friendly, and “small company” atmosphere? Our companies, as members of the Berkshire Hathaway group of Insurance Companies, provides opportunities for professionals interested in just that.

A Brief Overview

Want to work for a company with unparalleled financial strength and stability that also offers “large company” benefits with an exciting, friendly, and “small company” atmosphere? That is what you will find within the National Indemnity Group of Insurance Companies as well as outstanding opportunities for professionals looking to grow in their careers.

This position will be located in Omaha, NE Office and eligible for hybrid work after the completion of training.

What will you do?

MARKETING MATERIALS: Updates and distributes marketing materials as directed. Adds any new or changed material to historical catalogue of materials in current use as well as those archived for audit, regulatory, and good company practices purposes.

CROSS UNIT COMMUNICATION: May collaborate with Underwriting, Product Management, Pricing, and Business Analysts regarding product enhancements, recent successes, class highlights, coverage highlights, and any other pertinent information requiring communication to agents. Assembles and distributes all emails and marketing materials to home office staff and agents. Maintains and updates email addresses for accuracy of delivery. Follows the calendar to meet scheduling deadlines.

CREATIVE: Designs and develops other materials at the direction of others or on own as appropriate, such as videos, webinars, training materials, internal communications, external publications, company history, materials needed for Company functions, etc. Helps create creative element for national marketing meeting and, at manager direction, creates presentations for manager meetings. Collaborates with Underwriting, Product Management, Pricing, Marketing, Executives, Human Resources, and business analysts to understand content and marketing direction.

WEBSITE: Participates in the updates and maintenance of Company website. Creates social media posts and digital ads. Works to execute any changes by internal parties, including gathering and updating new content from various areas of the company. Updates information on the websites and obtains approval before publishing.

BRANDED PRODUCTS: Communicates with merchandising vendors to find branded items for marketing professionals, agents, industry events, company events, etc. Selects items for consideration. Orders items as directed. Coordinates with merchandising vendor.

AD HOC REQUESTS: May complete graphic design requests (logo use, ad hoc presentation documents, advertisement photos/graphics, software UI design, etc.) ensuring that brand standards are met. Maintains brand standard collateral (branding guide, style sheets) for entire organization and ensures the use of any brand logos, colors, formatting are consistently adhered to by both internal and external parties. Assists with development of any internal items that require branding, including skin designs for various internal company programs.

MARKETING BOOTH: Maintain marketing booth calendar to be used for agency conventions, industry events, etc. including shipping and distributing company branded convention materials. Works with others to execute designs for pop-up displays, table dressing, and other branded items.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT: Continually learns and adapts to our changing business and software products. Learns Agile principles, products, and testing principles, and any additional software, platform, or process needs/changes. Maintains testing standards, methodologies, and frameworks. Supports and encourages a culture of continuous improvement of testing processes, tools, and methodologies. Actively develops skills by participating in company-led training sessions, watching e-Learning content, reading articles, etc.

POSITIVE TEAM CULTURE: Exhibits and promotes a positive team culture includes but not limited to accepting constructive feedback, being respectful of others, being helpful to coworkers, volunteering to assist with projects, etc.

OTHER: Performs related duties as directed or as situation dictates such as participating in other activities, projects, and initiatives as required. Duties are listed in order of greatest importance. Other responsibilities may be assigned.

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent work experience.

Experience

One or more years work experience.

Required Knowledge

Personal computer and Microsoft Office Suite

Working knowledge of entire Abode Creative Suite

Understanding of graphic design principles

Understanding of marketing techniques

Preferred Knowledge

Ability to create web documents & email using design software and code in HTML for delivery

Studio Photography experience

Required Skills and Abilities

Excellent oral and written communication

Ability to think creatively and outside of the box

Work well with multiple projects and changing deadlines

Be able to prioritize efficiently while communicating priority levels to parties involved

Proofreading

Learn quickly

Work independently

Work well with others

Respond well to demands on time and resource

Maintain confidentiality

Work with detail with accuracy

organize time and resources and handle multiple high priorities

We want you to be involved! We offer Employee Resource Groups for volunteering, connecting with others, social gatherings, and professional development. We also regularly seek employees input through companywide surveys.

We care about your health and wellbeing! Our Wellness program is integrated into the Company culture with an online wellness portal that offers a year-round, one-stop-shop to manage and track all areas of health, our Omaha office boasts a complimentary state-of-the-art onsite fitness center, and a robust wellness program.

Benefits, Perks and more! We offer retirement and savings plan with immediate enrollment with 100% employer match up to 5%, Medical, Dental and Vision for regular, full-time employees and eligible dependents, a dedicated Learning & Development program for employees to grow personally and professionally, 100% upfront Educational Reimbursement program, subsidized downtown parking, competitive time off policies including parental leave, an Employee Assistance program and much more!

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