Creative Services Consultant

Edinburgh, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableEntry LevelTemporary

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and grow as part of an integrated creative team by supporting motion design, video production, and conceptual work across Brand & Marketing and Corporate Affairs, with hands-on experience through the full creative process.

  • Develop foundational creative skills in an internal agency environment
  • Collaborate with designers, copywriters, and account teams
  • Follow brand, compliance and quality standards while pursuing a formal Marketing qualification

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • This role will work effectively across Group Brand & Marketing and Corporate Affairs & Brand contributing to an increasingly integrated operating model with shared priorities, connected workflows and clear interfaces.
  • To develop foundational creative skills within an internal agency environment by supporting the delivery of motion design, video production, and conceptual creative work.
  • The role provides hands on experience across the full creative process, ranging from idea generation and storyboarding to animation, filming and postproduction, while working collaboratively with designers, copywriters and account teams.
  • Through exposure to studio workflows, brand governance and corporate compliance, the traineeship is designed to help you build your technical craft, refine your creative strengths, and gain a well rounded grounding for a career in creative and marketing disciplines.
  • As part of the role, you will follow brand, compliance and quality standards.
  • You will also be supported in obtaining a formal qualification in Marketing.

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of marketing and brand principles. Able to demonstrate awareness of how brand, marketing, creative, or content activities work together within a wider marketing system.
  • Good communication and collaboration skills. Comfortable working with others, building relationships, and contributing effectively to cross functional projects.
  • Comfortable using or exploring AI-enabled tools and a willingness to learn to enhance content planning, social analytics and productivity, ensuring outputs meet brand, regulatory and compliance requirements.
  • Organisational skills and the ability to support multiple projects. Can manage day to day tasks, support project coordination and contribute to efficient studio or marketing workflows.
  • Some experience of using MS Office applications such as Word, Powerpoint and Excel to create reports and presentations

Preferred

  • A degree level qualification in Brand, Marketing or a related discipline is preferable.
  • Some experience of working in a professional or design environment (for example through a placement, internship or part‑time role) would be beneficial.

Benefits

  • Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
  • Salary and benefits : £25,000 plus an indicative bonus range of 8-16% private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.
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Standard Life plc

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Standard Life champions the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, using our size, expertise and influence - to shape the world our customers will retire into.

London, England, GBR
2.5K employees (106 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
106 (4% of company)
Median Tenure
4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
31.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$227
Traffic Source Mix
Search
69.7%
Direct
16.9%
Referral
9.2%
Social
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.5K

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