Senior Art Director

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Pentland Brands Full time

6 February 2024 Job ID: 1781
- Content & Creative
- Finchley, London

Senior Art Director

Content & Creative is Pentland Brands’ centre of excellence for development and production of best-in-class, creative content. We want to build a content factory that powers Pentland’s brands to be the most famous, the most relevant, the most desired and the easiest to purchase. We want to tell beautiful stories about our brilliant brands, stories that bridge between creative communications and creative selling. We need to be ‘chefs at the pass’ for the brands delivering consistency and coherence across all touchpoints. We will have digital baked into everything we do, we will always start with our consumers and then build ideas around their behaviour.

We’re ambitious - we don’t just want to be a content factory; we want to be the best content factory delivering brilliant work at speed and at scale.

We want people with a passion for great work, who are obsessed with craft and want to learn how to build brilliant brands - from the inside out.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Art Director to join our content team. As a Senior Art Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the visual identity Pentland’s brands.

What you’ll do:

- Tell beautiful stories about our brilliant brands.
- Build a culture of great not good - drive obsessive curiosity and craft throughout the department. Then champion that throughout the wider organisation.
- Develop campaigns with particular emphasis on digital, including websites, and social - from pre-brief, through strategic development and creative execution.
- Coordinate and direct high profile global shoots, with the ability to manage and motivate teams to get the best out of shoot crews/talent.
- Work closely with the Creative Director leading more junior members of your team, educating them on what good looks like and pushing them to elevate their work.
- Bring consumers closer to our brands with elevated and well-crafted content.
- Provide management, leadership, inspiration, guidance, support and direction for the team, critically evaluate the creative process and work to improve with the creative team.
- Have an opportunity to work across our 7 brands - all different in size, positioning, team and output.

What you’ll bring:

- Hybrid skillset that covers art direction and design
- motion is a plus.
- A portfolio brimming with brilliant conceptual work delivered to the highest standards across a full suite of channels with proven commercial results.
- Proven experience of developing campaigns with particular emphasis on digital, including websites, and social - from pre-brief, through strategic development and creative execution.
- A wide breath of experience in the fields of sports, fashion and lifestyle global brands.
- A brave and creative conceptual thinker who enjoys challenging their own thinking and approach to briefs.
- Expert knowledge and experience of Adobe Creative (CS6): Photoshop InDesign and Illustrator.
- Proven experience of leadership, collaboration and problem solving.

What you’ll get in return
- Competitive remuneration package.
- Flexible working - 60/40 hybrid split.
- 25 days holiday (plus the bank holidays).
- Brand and retail perks.
- Cycle2work and season ticket loans.
- The chance to join our Charity, D&I and Sustainability employee networks.
- Wellbeing commitment.
- Friendly and open culture with flat structures allowing plenty of opportunity for development.
- Open-minded company, welcoming thoughts, and ideas to be shared. Being part of a portfolio of brands, we have endless opportunities for you.
- Variety of other perks once passed probation.

Who we are

Pioneering Brands that Make Life Better

We are Pentland Brands, a global business touching the lives of millions through some of the world’s most-loved active and footwear brands. We own Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand, Endura, Mitre, Ellesse, KangaROOS and Red or Dead. We’re the UK licensee for Kickers and have a joint venture with Lacoste footwear.

We have a rich and remarkable history, of family, of ambition and of innovation, of leading from the front with a legacy of outstanding brands and equally outstanding people. Of pioneering brands that make life better. Brands that create an emotional connection with our consumers and help keep people on the move. Brands that do good, that form part of a positive business that takes action for people and planet.

We celebrate differences and give everyone the freedom to innovate and develop because we know this is an exceptional place to build brands and build your career. We want you to come to work every day excited about what we can achieve when we have a clear and single-minded focus on being consumer-centric and relentlessly focused on improving our performance.

Always guided by our principles, we not only do a great job, but we also do it in the right way; success is a team game; with

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