Creative ManagerTwinkl

Location: Remote or HQ

Annual Salary: £30,000-£35,000(depending on experience)

Hours: (37.5hr/week)

Contract: Permanent

Line Manager: Lauren Cotton/Kate Swarbrick

Recruiter: Rikki Spencer-Cox

Closing date: 1/09/2023 (shortlisting will follow with phone screening)

It’s an exciting time for the Creative Team, we’ve doubled in size over the last few years and now we’re looking for a Creative Manager who will work to support our most valuable asset, you guessed it, our team!

Working within our multidisciplinary in-house creative agency, our Creative Manager is someone who is passionate about building continuous growth, developing a space where creativity can thrive and making sure all team members feel safe, secure and supported to continually produce outstanding results.

We’re after a positive, proactive creative with strong art direction skills who can support the success of the team whilst maintaining the strong well-being of its members. You’ll need to be a strong communicator with great organisational skills, keeping your team up to date and facilitating a feedback loop between managers and your team so we can quickly address any issues.

What the role looks like:

This is a full-time position. You’ll:

• Provide art direction to our pool of creatives, including a copywriter, designers, illustrators, photographers and videographers. Providing support, training and mentorship.
• Ensure high-quality, consistent output from the team and adherence to the appropriate guidelines across the business.
• Deliver on projects in your area of specialism.
• Work with our Project Coordinator to delegate, resource and manage workloads.
• Easily adapt to changing priorities and have strong problem-solving capabilities. Work with stakeholders to understand their requirements in face of unexpected and urgent business needs.
• Host training, process reviews and department socials as needed.
• Deliver key updates to your team.
• Facilitate a feedback loop between managers and your team.
• Host regular 121s, AAA (monthly performance meetings) and submit pay reviews.

The Brand & Creative team is fun and diverse, covering a wide range of disciplines including UX, video, copywriting and design. We work with clients from across the business which keeps us busy, so well-being is really important to us. We enjoy sharing fun facts in our morning catch-up such as “did you know each planet makes a sound?” or sometimes just sharing what we ate for dinner last night.

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Be a passionate creative and strong art director.
• Be in continuous communication with department managers, feeding back on your team and suggesting positive and constructive changes.
• Be organised and communicate clearly.
• Support, motivate and empower your team to achieve their sprint and career goals.
• Uphold the team’s mission and values, building on the culture and ensuring it thrives.
• Celebrate team successes and ensure integrated recognition is at the heart of the team.
• Handle information sensibly and where appropriate, sensitively.
• Ability to interpret briefs, join the dots and produce storyboards.

In this role, you will learn:

• Great people and leadership skills
• How to manage and implement a team strategy.

You’ll work with:

• The Brand & Creative Department