Chris Rice Email & Phone Number

Cranleigh, England, United Kingdom

Working with a crackshot team of creatives across a breadth of areas, I create innovative and thought provoking visuals for a variety of campaigns and purposes.I have worked hard to position myself as a brand champion for Coca-Cola Freestyle, a prolific and ever evolving part of the Coca-Cola company who rely on high quality artwork and sharp, well considered ideation at all times across a multitude of campaigns including international, national and customer specific. This has led me to build incredibly strong bonds and relationships with internal and external Coca-Cola stakeholders across the country.Other clients I work with include Five Guys, GSK, Burger King, Fenistil, Sanofi, M&Ms, Mars, Qatar Airways, Liverpool FS (Standard Chartered) and many more.

What started with a 3 month contract role, quickly turned into a full time position which cemented me as part of an ever evolving and excited, busy team at OfficeTeam (part of OT Group).As Senior Digital Designer, working with OfficeTeam provided me with a challenging, exciting and interesting way to continue my career. My key responsibilities were:- Sole responsibility for ensuring brand guidelines are met across the company, and fielding questions from all levels of employee regarding brand integrity- Producing a multitude of different collateral, printed and digital- Providing all social media streams reliable, friendly artwork which follows brand guidelines for multiple brands- Working with 3rd party partners on projects to bring them to life- Creating intuitive and engaging email content to help push marketing campaigns- Contributing to marketing activity across the company- Making other, more generic collateral such as case studies and important office documentation- Finding freelancers where necessary to collaborate on video and animation projects- Designing and creating engaging Powerpoint Presentations for use company wide& much much more!

Reigate, Surrey, United Kingdom

At Fourleaf, I worked as a middle-weight graphic designer with a fantastic team of designers, front end developers and back end masterminds. Within this role, I was tasked with creating engaging and exciting materials for numerous clients ranging from the very large to the very small. These clients include such names as Shell, ENI, Hallite and PPG. My main responsibilites at Fourleaf were to design assets and media across a wide range of applications, whilst also liaising with the Dutch team to discuss current projects and angles where necessary.I worked closely with the creative lead and creative director to ensure all projects were a success, and that all of my work was completed within deadlines, often exceeding clients expectations.

After working for 5 months as an eLearning & Multimedia Designer for WDR, I was promoted to Creative Lead where I became responsible for leading our small digital design & marketing team to success. This meant managing team workflow, delegating tasks and strategising efficiently to ensure all deadlines were met to a consistently high standard.Key Responsibilities:- Continuing on with working as a functioning digital & eLearning designer.- Adding responsibility for managing workflow and individual workloads on a daily/weekly basis.- Setting realistic time frames for work and understanding team input/output.- Enthusing the team to stay ahead of the digital learning curve, and continue pushing boundaries.- Working (even harder!) to spot new industry & design trends as well as marketing opportunities

Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

At WDR, I was responsible for a multitude of design and marketing tasks, ranging from re-designing old collateral straight through to assisting with global clients needs.Key Responsibilities:- Designing gorgeous documents for our end users and learners which have been recognised by the government body OFSTED as being 'outstanding'- Generating creative and engaging ideas for content- Developing new brand guidelines and acting as brand ambassador/guardian- Design web assets and wire frames in a UI/UX capacity for websites and portals- Understand business development needs and how that effects my teams workflow- Implemented a workflow management system allowing full visibility

West Grinstead

Mind Tools is an award winning e-learning platform to help individuals and teams develop their soft skills using over 1,400+ resources online. At Mind Tools, I joined their brand new Design department primarily supporting the Marketing department, but also assisting other departments with their creative and marketing needs.My key duties at Mind Tools included:- Updating old collateral to the new brand style in line with Mind Tools' new brand guidelines- Being a brand ambassador and ensuring all work that is created by both Mind Tools and its clients meets our guidelines- Assisting the in-house Social Media Manager with social media posts, designs and content creation- Creating beautiful new collateral for Mind Tools clients to use and share- Developing engaging animations using the Vyond (formerly GoAnimate) platform- Liaised with different internal teams to work out their needs and requirements from a design perspective- Created 'Montage Videos' using Adobe Premiere Pro- Helped with key client events, creating collateral and goodies to give away to delegates- Illustrated and designed new infographics, working closely with the in-house content department- and much more!

Redhill, United Kingdom

As a design and marketing executive, I worked with a small team of professional and driven individuals to create engaging and effective marketing campaigns and digital artwork. In this tight knit department, we ensured we set key targets and goals for the year to keep our companies profile firmly seated as the market leader in its sector. My role was to primarily look after the US and Rest Of World areas, while also keeping an eye on Europe and the UK.My key responsibilities were:- Liaise with clients around the world and organise bookings of events, printed media and digital advertising.- Design and develop engaging and clever global email marketing campaigns aswell as tracking results and feeding these back to relevant departments.- Create beautiful adverts which are featured in some of the worlds largest and most followed magazines and editorials. (Gulf Construction, Garden Design Journal, BALI, Landscape Middle East, CG Concept, Profession Paysagiste, Taspo Baumzeitung, The Grape Press and many more)- Work alongside the department heads to come up with clever and successful campaigns for launching new products and assisting with their needs.- Printing, creasing, cutting and producing physical corporate media such as brochures, flyers, magazines, inserts etc.- Keeping a close eye on web analytics and ensuring all online areas are working effectively, including social media- B2B Sales via visiting exhibitions and working the booth to talk with potential customers and new clients about our product range- Creating engaging and informative videos for installation guides, case studies and much more- Managing all Google Adwords information and liaising with global teams to ensure these are a success. Give insights into what works and what doesnt work with regards to PCC and influence sales managers with information and vital statistics to drive more traffic to our global sites.

- Producing digital media for website banners, populating an entire website with brand styled artwork following all guidelines- Designing, proofing and printing all types of media including posters, flyers, POS items and product labels.- Designed and produced products including sourcing ingredients, label printers, container manufacturers and bringing whole projects together into a sellable end product.- Managing myself and one other designer with all social media updates including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.- Tracking website engagement using Google Analytics and understanding how to use this information efficiently- Sending several E-Broadcasts to introduce new offers and products using Mailchimp- Also helped with producing POS and posters for the local supplement store owned by Prolife Distribution- Liased and agreed costs with suppliers before going to the MD for agreement