We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our Sales & Marketing team is building a function that reflects who we are: open, trusted and focused on shaping what matters. You’ll join a team big enough to offer big priorities and commercial challenges, yet personal enough to ensure you’re supported and empowered from day one.

Here, we think beyond. You’ll bring ideas, challenge thinking and help shape how we deliver campaigns, insights and engagement across the business. Working closely with internal clients, you’ll deepen your understanding of our sectors and see how connected teams drive our 2028 growth ambitions.

From strategic storytelling to capability‑building and smarter ways of working, you’ll grow your skills while working with people who care about doing the right thing.

We’ll help you succeed

In this team, development is central to how we work. You’ll have access to best‑in‑class training, clear capability frameworks and hands‑on learning that give you the confidence and skills to grow quickly.

We make it personal with supportive teams where you belong, are trusted, and take transformative work on early. You’ll collaborate across service lines and leadership levels, building relationships grounded in openness and accountability.

You’ll bring your best - taking ownership, delivering quality and building trust across the firm. In return, you’ll get clarity, fair feedback and the development you need to succeed. You won’t just complete tasks - you’ll help shape how the team evolves and how we support the business.

Role purpose

The Design Manager is a practitioner who delivers high-impact design work aligned to SalesandMarketing priorities agreed with Design leadership. Reporting into the SalesandMarketing Design Manager, the role takes ownership of a defined portfolio of strategic design projects—translating value propositions and commercial narratives into compelling visual outputs that strengthen engagement, credibility and commercial outcomes.

A key focus will beacceleratingthe scaling of design services by creating reusable componentsand guidance that enable high-quality self-serve andalternativedelivery routes. This includes working with agile delivery models and evolving technology-enabled productionapproaches,so quality remains consistent even when delivery is distributed.

Brand development and visual identity stewardship sits with the Senior BrandandCommunications Design Manager.This role operates within those guardrails and supports their application across strategic outputs, ensuring work is both brand-aligned and audience-appropriate.

• Deliver end-to-end design for a defined set of strategic projects (e.g., proposal documentation, proposition toolkits, flagship market activity).
• Translate briefs into strong creative concepts and polished outputs across formats (presentations, document components, campaign toolkits, digital assets where required).
• Manage deadlines, iterations and stakeholder inputs to protect quality and pace.
• Turn commercial narratives and value propositions into clear visual communication tailored to audience needs and decision dynamics.
• Provide creative options and recommendations that improve clarity, differentiation and impact.
• Help shape briefs early to clarify purpose, audience, key messages, constraints and success measures before design starts.
• Coordinate dependencies and review points so work lands in the right order and at the right quality, with fewer late-stage changes.
• Identify repeatable needs within your portfolio and convert them into reusable componentsandguidancethat enable high-quality self-serve.
• Partner with relevant platform owners and delivery teams where needed to improve how design assets are created, accessed and reused, keeping the approach flexible as tools and delivery models evolve.
• Capture learning and continuously improve the components and guidance so quality remains consistent even when delivery routes vary.

You'll be someone with

• Strong design practitioner with experience delivering high-impact work in a fast-paced, stakeholder-heavy environment.

• Proven ability to translate complex messages into clear visual communication and compelling storytelling.

• Confident partnering with stakeholders; able to shape briefs, manage expectations and protect quality.

• Strong understanding of brand application and the discipline to deliver within guardrails while still creating cut-through.

• Experience contributing to templated or component-based design and improving reuse is beneficial.

• Experience working with distributed delivery models (e.g., agencies/offshore/document production routes) is beneficial.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.