Lead Creative Designer

RM Education

Harrier Park

4d ago

About RM

RM is the leading supplier of technology and resources to the education sector, supporting schools, teachers and learners, enabling the improvement of educational outcomes worldwide.

We work across the industry from pre-school to higher education and professional qualification, our customers include schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions.

We have a clear purpose to enrich the lives of learners worldwide.

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What we can offer you

Competitive salary depending on experience

25 Days Annual Leave (with an option to buy an extra 5 days)

Performance related bonus scheme

What's the purpose of the role?

Reporting to the Head of Global Creative Services, the Lead Creative Designer will oversee and work on omni-channel projects through from conception to delivery, providing advice and guidance on new and innovative ways to market our products.

This role will need to be a design champion within the team, inspiring others to achieve their best.

The Lead Creative Designer will live and breathe design, especially focussed on digital, taking our brand websites and campaigns to the next level, as well as being involved in omni-channel concepts in line with our promotional periods.

You will help define creative best practices and processes and inspire the best possible creative output, leading 2 direct reports and working alongside the other teams of designers, photographers, and videographers.

You will also strive to continually elevate the creative and ensure consistency across our brands and messaging.

What does the job entail?

Be expert in translating briefs into targeted, effective, inspirational creative, producing creative assets to support this, and developing ideas for how our brand propositions and positioning comes to life

Traffic workload daily, assigning briefs both to yourself and your direct reports, determining assignments as needed

Ensure deadlines are managed and planned for accordingly

You will partner across the company to instil creative excellence at every touchpoint

Leverage customer insights that solve strategic problems

Be a champion for the power of great creative work to shift perception and drive results

Work with external partners and agencies, forming a strong creative link

Work flexibly and see the big picture while keeping an eye on every detail

Ensure clear communications with stakeholders including Brand Marketing, Digital and Product

Help evolve and innovate our creative messaging strategy in-market and help capture and elevate all our brand communications

Review and monitor processes to ensure all sign-off procedures have been followed

Mentor and manage direct reports, guiding them to generate a wide range of concepts and creative artwork, providing evaluation and clear feedback

Ensure RM&Me appraisal process is conducted annually, ensuring regular check-ins with team members

Provide cover for the Head of Creative Services when required

What are we looking for?

Brings an outstanding level of experience in creative design this could be from previous agency or an in-house team experience minimum of 5 years required

Digital design experience, including UX / UI principles, is an absolute essential

Previous experience of managing or leading a creative team, including designers, artworkers and agency partners

Confidently possess strong leadership capabilities with a mentoring and nurturing style to guide the creative out of others

Is a conceptual thinker who is strategically focused

Has a strong design / art direction background and demonstrable experience in working with and defining design guidelines

Is a great communicator with strong influencing skills and experience, able to convey creative ideas and plans to both internal and external stakeholders

Is collaborative by nature and gets energy bringing people together

Strong presentation skills, being able to convey concepts in a clear and compelling manner

Is comfortable in a fast-moving, constantly evolving environment and have the maturity to bring stability and be calm within deadlines

Has a portfolio demonstrating proficiency in delivering strategic creative ideas across digital, social and print disciplines

Previous print catalogue design experience would be advantageous

Able to work with Abode Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects), Magento Pagebuilder and WordPress proficiently

InRiver Print PIM experience would be desirable

What's in it for you?

As well as a competitive salary, you could earn a performance related bonus and you would receive our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available.

There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign for a health assessment or take part in our cycle to work scheme.

You could even earn yourself an extra bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM.

At RM we are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to creating an inclusive and flexible workplace where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.

At RM we recently introduced My Work Blend RM which provides office based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working.

As well as your office base you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move.

We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process. We expect how we make best use of hybrid working may continue to adapt as we adjust to our new ways of working.

Growth, both personal and organisational, is at the heart of RM's strategy. We encourage our employees to continue to learn and develop and have been awardedLinkedIn's Talent Award for Best Culture of Learning Award 2021 - Story One RM Careers

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