Creative Lead

Creative Lead

Manchester Centre – 3 days in the office 2 days working from home

C40k

Are you a visionary creative who thrives on shaping bold, memorable brand experiences? We’re looking for a Lead Creative to drive the storytelling, design, and innovation across a portfolio of brands.

What you’ll do:

• Define and elevate brand identities, ensuring each has a distinctive voice and visual presence.
• Conceptualize campaigns and creative platforms that resonate culturally, delight guests, and deliver commercial impact.
• Bring brand strategy, customer insight, and business priorities to life across digital, social, print, and in-store experiences.
• Lead the creation of seasonal campaigns, launches, events, partnerships, and high-profile initiatives.
• Explore and embed AI-driven creative tools to speed up ideation, content production, and workflow efficiency, while maintaining brand integrity.
• Oversee the full creative process – briefing, prioritization, resourcing, delivery – ensuring projects run smoothly and deadlines are met.
• Direct photography and video production, maintaining excellence in typography, layout, visual storytelling, and art direction.
• Safeguard and evolve brand standards, guidelines, and creative quality across all outputs.

About you:

• Proven experience in a senior creative, art direction, or brand leadership role, ideally managing multiple brands or campaigns in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong portfolio showcasing brand identity, integrated campaigns, digital content, print, and art direction.
• Someone from an agency background / background within retail or hospitality
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to enhance creative output and production workflows.
• Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite; motion/film editing experience is a plus.
• Deep understanding of design principles, visual storytelling, and print production.
• Confident communicator, able to present ideas, influence stakeholders, and make smart commercial decisions.
• Organised and strategic, with the ability to manage competing priorities and ensure high-quality delivery across multiple projects.

If shaping iconic brands and pushing creative boundaries excites you, this is the role for you.

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