Marex Overview
Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world's major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,400 employees across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. For more information visit www.marex.com (http://www.marex.com).
Marex Graduate Programme
Embark on a transformative journey with Marex's Full-Time Graduate Programme - an experience tailored to empower and support Analysts. Dive into the 'Backpack to Briefcase' bootcamp, unveiling the intricacies of financial services, Marex's purpose, and strategic priorities. Join your team post-bootcamp, fostering connections through continuous training.
Learn, grow, and expand your network through a diverse array of sessions fast-tracking your understanding of Marex and the industry. Engage in workshops covering behavioural, cognitive skills, technical understanding, and business awareness, nurturing your professional development.
Throughout the programme, seize the opportunity to attend informal insight events and a lunch and learn series hosted by senior Marex Leaders. Gain exposure, ask questions, and gain real insights into the business from influential figures.
From day one, connect with a network of fellow graduates. Attend training and events together, creating bonds with those sharing your journey. Join Marex, where your passions align with purpose, and your strengths converge with our values.
Department Description
Marex Technology delivers efficiency, scalability and security for the business. The Marex Technology Department provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups.
The Design team's focus is the strategy, design, and production of high quality and consistent creative output across the Marex group. This includes the brand, the group and division businesses websites, and all sales and marketing collateral. Our product design team manage the full design workflow, from UX (User Experience), working with stakeholders and end users, to UI (User Interface) design and Design System management.
Role Summary
As a new graduate, you provide support for visual design capabilities across the Marex group, worldwide. Helping to maintain consistency of design for Investor/Client/Staff related material including brochures, events, general sales and brand collateral.
Graphic design abilities will be required for managing the rollout and ongoing creation of collateral for new corporate branding across the business. Working to templates for brochures, PowerPoint, Word, and other digital collateral using templates and guidance from the Marex brand guidelines.
Overall Responsibilities
- Production of business documents for sales teams, including brochures, events, and social media
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Working with, managing, and contributing to/expanding our brand design system and guidelines
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Sourcing and/or creating stock imagery and video footage
Standard Responsibilities for all Roles
- Ensuring compliance with the company's regulatory requirements under the FCA
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Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with
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Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values
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At all times complying with the FCA's Code of Conduct
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To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
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To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
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To escalate risk events immediately
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To provide input to risk management processes, as required
The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time.
Ideal Degree Types
- Interaction Design
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Product Design
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UX Design
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Design Engineering
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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
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Creative Computing
- we will still consider applications outside of these degree types.
Skills and Experience
- Degree educated 2:1 or higher*
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Knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma or similar software
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Ability to use and create templates in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
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You can make the most boring of content at least look amazing
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An interest in motion design and video content production would be a big plus
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
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Academic or placement projects involving product or interface design - particularly tools, dashboards, data-heavy applications, or platforms
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Any internship or work placement in a product company, fintech, or technology environment
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Personal or side projects that show initiative - especially anything built rather than just designed
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Familiarity with working inside or alongside a design system, even as a consumer
Competencies
- Interested in designing with grids and brand design systems
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Visual design ability to make things look and feel well-balanced and interesting
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Ability to communicate what makes a design work (or doesn't)
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A keen and experienced eye for typography (you notice bad keming on menus and shop signs)
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You can think about design in a strategic way, not just what looks good
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
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Demonstrates curiosity
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Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
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Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
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Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness
Company Values
Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
- Respect - Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
- Integrity - Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
- Collaborative - We work in teams - open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
- Developing our People - Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex Spectron the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
- Adaptable and Nimble - Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client's various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.
Conduct Rules
You must:
- Act with integrity
- Act with due skill, care and diligence
- Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators
- Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
- Observe proper standard of market conduct
- Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers
Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.
- Candidates will still be considered outside of this range
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