Design Studio Lead

1 month ago

Darwen, United Kingdom Crown Paints Full time

Design Studio Lead

Hybrid


Crown are looking for a Design Studio Lead with Artwork experience to lead a team of 5 studio creatives, ensuring the team are set up for success when it comes to all aspects of delivery against creative briefs.


The successful Candidate will be responsible for:


  • People leader of the Crown Design Studio team, responsible for providing leadership, support and evaluating performance
  • The output of work from the design studio, making sure brand guidelines are adhered to and there’s clear consistency across all brands.
  • To be the relationship manager between the Design team and the Marketing team
  • Manage all studio requests from the marketing team and rarely, the wider Crown team
  • Assessing briefs as appropriate, liaising with designers to assist with studio time estimates and identifying the correct designers for each project.
  • Planning the work into the studio - flexibility is important. The role will involve planning of quick turnaround jobs alongside larger, longer term, projects
  • Quick, agile and effective solutions for same day issues may arise occasionally
  • Ensuring all work is being saved to the design server on an ongoing basis and all filing protocols are being adhered to
  • Liaising with the designers to identify where they require relevant training and upskilling
  • To be a strong Graphic Designer and/or Artworker themselves, able to step into the role when the team are at capacity.


About you


  • Develop people: have the ability to develop the design studio team, identify and develop high potential candidates, coach and deliver feedback
  • Must be able to drive performance and be comfortable with difficult conversations where necessary
  • Execute soft management skills with the ability to build trust, honesty & openness within the team
  • Have a high attention to detail.
  • Understand the creative design process, end-to-end.
  • Be organised and have the ability to continuously re-plan the studio workflow if higher priority projects come in.
  • Be reactive, calm and solutions oriented
  • Be a good communicator, firm but fair, with great stakeholder management skills
  • Be in tune with developing business needs, responding with team development and training where needed


Software Skills:



  • Sound working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud software packages
  • Experience of project management software (Adobe Workfront desirable)
  • Some experience of Microsoft packages such as Powerpoint & Word
  • Portfolio of work required at interview



About Crown Paints

Crown believes that every pot of paint is brimming with potential and we want to put that into the hands of everyone. As one of the UK’s leading paint brands, we support homeowners and professionals to ‘paint their own possible’ and create beautiful, transformative spaces for everyone to enjoy.

With a heritage dating back to 1777, the company has a rich and colourful history, pouring 200 years of knowledge and skill into every tin of paint. Headquartered in Darwen in Lancashire, the same town the company started in all those years ago, Crown also has a manufacturing site in Hull and an ever-growing network of over 170 Crown Decorating Centres located throughout the UK and Ireland. We’re proud to have held the Royal Warrant since 1949 in recognition of our commitment, passion and experience.

As an industry leader in innovation and sustainability, Crown knows what a positive difference we can make to people and the planet and have set ambitious targets to become carbon neutral across all manufacturing operations, drive full circularity across product and packaging through recycling schemes, eradicate all waste to landfill and ensure 100% of paint containers make maximum use of recycled and recyclable materials.

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