Marketing Team Support - Chemical Design

Extra hands for your in-house marketing team

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Your marketing team knows your brand better than anyone outside the business ever could, and that’s exactly why we don’t try to replace it. What we do is step in when the workload outgrows the team, or when a project needs a skill that isn’t sitting in the building, whether that’s a website rebuild, a UI for a new product, or a stack of print materials for an event.

We’ve done this for years with teams at MCS and Verto Cloud, and it works because we fit around what’s already there rather than getting in the way of it.

The problem we keep hearing

Most in-house marketing teams are lean by design, which is fine until three things land in the same month. A campaign expands, a product launch gets moved up, a trade show appears on the calendar, and suddenly the strategy is solid but there’s nobody left to build it. That’s not a failure of the team, it’s just what happens when good people have finite hours and a growing list of channels to cover.

How we fit in

We work as an extension of your team, not as a separate agency you have to manage from a distance. You brief us once, we get on with it, and the work comes back looking like it was made by people who understand your brand, because by that point, we do. With MCS, that’s meant everything from website updates to trade-show materials and ongoing campaign graphics. With Verto Cloud, it’s been web design, product UI work, and the marketing assets that go out to clients and at events. Different teams, different needs, same approach: we slot in wherever the gap is.

You don’t need another full-time hire.
You need senior-level design and technical skill for the weeks it’s genuinely needed, not a salary you’re paying every month of the year regardless of workload.

You don’t need multiple suppliers.
When digital and print work come from different freelancers, the brand starts to drift, and someone on your team ends up spending half their week chasing consistency instead of doing their job. We handle both, so it doesn’t.

You don’t need to train us up.
We’ve been doing this long enough that we can move at the pace your business already moves at, without needing weeks of hand-holding to get there.

Why teams keep coming back to us

We’re not trying to be the loudest voice in the room, we’re trying to be the one you can hand something to and stop thinking about.

Because we’re not buried in the day-to-day the way an internal team is, we often spot the small things that get missed, a piece of messaging that’s drifted, a page that could work harder, a print asset that no longer matches the site. And because we cover both digital and traditional design under one roof, you’re not stitching together work from people who’ve never spoken to each other.

How we supported…

Verto Cloud

Verto Cloud needed a creative partner that could keep pace with a fast-moving tech company, so we took on a mix of work: designing and maintaining their web presence, building product UI elements, and producing the marketing assets they needed for presentations, events and client conversations. Covering both the digital and the physical side of things has kept their brand consistent, whether someone’s browsing the platform or holding a printed proposal.

Read the full Verto Cloud Case Study.

“It’s been great working with Stephen on a range of creative projects. He has a real talent for bringing our ideas to life and brings a definite polish to the final product. Stephen has also been flexible in taking on a variety of tasks beyond his usual design remit and been open and adaptable when we’ve needed support beyond his core design work, which has been a huge help, and we’ve really appreciated it. He’s collaborative, receptive to feedback, and committed to getting the details right, which are qualities that have made him a valued external partner”.

Laura Watts, Verto Cloud

How we supported…

MCS Rental Software

MCS Rental Software operates across multiple countries, and keeping the brand looking and sounding like the same company in every one of them isn’t simple. We became a flexible extension of their team, working across brochures, trade-show materials and on-brand campaign graphics, all built to hold together whether they were being used by the UK team or a regional office elsewhere. That meant their own team could stay focused on strategy, while we made sure a customer in one market saw the same brand as a customer in another.

Read the full MCS Rental Software Case Study.

“We’ve been working with Stephen since 2010, and he’s become an invaluable extension of our marketing team here at MCS Rental Software. What impressed us from the start is the exceptional quality and speed of delivery – he consistently turns projects around quickly without ever compromising on creativity or execution. Stephen was instrumental in developing and implementing the MCS brand and continues to maintain it, ensuring consistency across everything we produce. That level of ownership and stewardship of our brand identity means I can brief him on any project and trust it will come back on-brand and on-point. That kind of knowledge and reliability is rare with external partners. Having Stephen as an external resource has transformed how we work. We get the additional design skills and capacity we need without the expense of a full-time hire, which has freed up our internal team considerably. Our brand presence has never been stronger across both digital and print.”.

Megan Young, MCS Rental Software

If your team's stretched...

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If your marketing or product team is carrying more than it has capacity for, we'd like to hear about it. We can walk you through full case studies, talk through what's coming up for you, and show you how this kind of partnership actually works day to day.