Head of Creative Director

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom THG Full time

About THG

We're a fast-paced, global technology company with a portfolio of leading brands and sites. Our digital commerce ecosystem, THG Ingenuity, powers our growth and innovation.

Our comprehensive approach includes technology, content creation, e-commerce, marketing, manufacturing, new product development, and logistics. This ensures we can fully realise our vision and maintain our leadership in a rapidly evolving global industry.

About the Role

As Head of Creative, you'll be part of our senior team building the LOOKFANTASTIC brand, responsible for defining and delivering the visual language across all touchpoints.

As a brand guardian, you'll build a world-class creative department, striving for excellence in everything we do. We're looking for an inspirational leader who can motivate a team, provide constructive feedback, and work collaboratively with our internal departments.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Define and deliver a standout creative direction for LOOKFANTASTIC, bringing our purpose and vision to life.
  2. Create visual concepts and narratives for campaigns, working with the Head of Brand to dissect the creative brief and understand objectives.
  3. Oversee the workflow of the Creative team and agency, balancing BAU work with the focus needed to drive key strategic projects.
  4. Responsibility for all creative output, ensuring consistency across everything we do.
  5. Implement style guidelines across all creative practices, including design, artwork, packaging, photography, and video.
  6. Take the creative lead on projects such as new packaging, web redesign, pop-up store design, working with key internal stakeholders and bringing on the right resource to execute.
  7. Responsibility for the Creative budget, deciding when to invest in high production value and knowing how to make efficiencies across creative spend.
  8. Art direction for photoshoots and campaigns, across stills and video, you'll be comfortable giving on-set direction to models.
  9. Work with the Brand and Performance teams to foster a culture of creative testing, using customer insight and data to help inform decisions.
  10. Ensure that we live our value of Innovation by looking out for new ways of doing things and ways to improve our working practices.

Requirements

  1. Expert across Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and more.
  2. Confident communicator across all levels, with natural relationship-building skills.
  3. Able to work at pace and manage multiple deadlines, with project and budget management experience.
  4. At least 7 years' experience as a multi-disciplinary creative, including graphic design, with a passion for the beauty industry.
  5. Experience managing a team and agencies, with working knowledge of the end-to-end production process.

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary.
  • Company pension scheme, matching up to 4%.
  • 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and birthday leave.
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity policy.
  • Enhanced compassionate leave.
  • Cycle to work scheme, tech scheme, and more.
  • Access to on-site doctor, physio, gym, and shop.
  • Commitment to continued learning and development through our bespoke L&D offering.
  • Exclusive discounts off THG brands.

About THG

THG is a Disability Confident Committed employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, and we're proud to be an equal opportunities employer.

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