Graphic Design Coordinator - UAE National

About This Role

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Supporting our long-term ambition and vision for growth, the Graphic Design Coordinator plays a proactive and creative role within the marketing and business development team, based in our Abu Dhabi/ Dubai office and supporting the Middle East region.

With a positive, can-do attitude and a collaborative approach, the post holder works with a degree of independence to identify opportunities for enhancing visual materials and communications. They bring fresh ideas and a thoughtful eye for design across a range of platforms, while remaining open to learning and broadening their skillset. Their enthusiasm and willingness to support wider team objectives contribute to a dynamic and high-performing environment.

Key responsibilities

• Create and deliver complete visual content for print and digital collateral, ensuring alignment with brand and messaging.
• Review existing pitch and proposals materials to quickly identify opportunities for visual improvement and clearer communication.
• Gather and assess relevant information to support design work, understanding how text and visuals work together effectively.
• Maintain and organise digital asset libraries, ensuring resources are up to date, accessible, and aligned with brand standards.
• Collaborate with bid teams to produce infographics and data visualisations that support submissions.
• Ensure all brand assets follow current brand guidelines and are appropriate for target audiences.
• Support the creation and scheduling of social media graphics using Sprout Social, assisting with graphics administration for the Middle East team.
• Build positive working relationships with global marketing and graphics teams, engaging with the global graphics lead to develop skills and share good practice.
• Assist in producing client-facing collateral such as market intelligence reports, brochures, flyers, and other assets that encourage client engagement in our business and services.
• Take initiative to identify design needs and contribute ideas.
• Support additional tasks as needed to contribute to the wider Business Generation team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, or a related field.
• Proven graphic design experience, preferably within the professional services industry or a related field.
• Portfolio demonstrating ability to produce complete, high-quality design collateral.

Skills, knowledge and experience

• Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in a digital/graphic design role, with increasing autonomy and responsibility.
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and MS Office
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Solid understanding of branding, marketing principles, and visual storytelling.
• Curious and perceptive, with an ability to understand stakeholder needs and produce design solutions that complement their objectives.
• Strong time management skills, with the ability to organise and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines.
• Experience in creating B2B creative assets and design is an advantage.
• Arabic language skills, both written and spoken, are a significant advantage.

Behaviours

To be successful in this role the candidate must be able to demonstrate our behaviours as follows:

Love a challenge

Make change happen

You embrace change and treat problems as opportunities. You deploy your analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, to understand the challenges of clients and other stakeholders. You show initiative and willingness to take responsibility for solving challenges.

Do better everyday

Your commitment to doing a great job is unshakeable. You develop your commercial awareness, and focus on efficient and effective execution to improve performance. You show determination and resilience to deliver to the highest possible ethical standards.

Stronger together

Collaborate to deliver our best work

You cooperate and collaborate effectively with others, building your team-working skills, and learning to work with people whose styles are different. You share your ideas and listen to the contributions of others. When you disagree, you discuss and challenge constructively.

Influence to build a better world

You communicate clearly and influence effectively, building a wide range of connections with colleagues. You understand your audience and the stakeholders whom you need to influence. You develop awareness of the issues affecting our clients, communities and the environment, beyond Turner & Townsend.

Bring out the best in everyone

Always learning

You are keen to develop your technical, business and behavioural competence. You keep your knowledge up-to-date and make use of feedback to help you learn. You show curiosity about new developments, learning and insights. You work towards professional accreditation, where required.

Treat each other with care and respect

You listen attentively to others and treat them with empathy and courtesy. You offer support to your colleagues when they ask for it, or when you notice they need it. You raise concerns with your manager about unacceptable behaviour if it arises.

Location and travel

• The post holder will be based in either our Abu Dhabi or Dubai office.
• There will be a requirement for very occasional travel across the UAE.

Additional Information

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

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