Design & Creative Lead

Nasstar

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Design & Creative Lead plays a pivotal role within the marketing team, accountable for developing and executing strong and consistent creative design assets across the Nasstar Group. This role involves working in partnership with marketing and comms teams on new creative projects to deliver best-in-class concepts. The Lead will act as the gatekeeper for brand design projects, e-shots, video, digital, and campaigns, ensuring all assets comply with brand standards. They will maintain high creative standards for all digital output, conducting thorough reviews and revisions as necessary to ensure that outputs are engaging and on-brand. Additionally, the Lead will manage the workflows of the design team from development of clear briefing process to concept to execution to ensure projects are completed successfully and on schedule. Support on new business pitches and presentations is also a key part of the role. In partnership with the Director of Marketing and Comms and other design members, the Lead will articulate the creative strategy for Nasstar group and all brands/sub-brands, campaigns & editorial, print projects, and events. Keeping up to date with industry, design and multi-media trends and being able to translate these into new ideas and concepts which drive relevancy in the market is crucial. This is a short-term contract role (1 month rolling to start) to help with the current team's workload.

Requirements

Mid/senior Graphic Designer experience.
Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite / Canva / Powerpoint.
Strong design expertise, including proficiency in software like Adobe Creative Suite and understanding design principles, techniques and best practices.
Excellent leadership and project management skills, including overseeing projects, managing the teams schedule and ensuring the team meets deadlines.
Strong communication and collaboration skills as they must be able to communicate their ideas clearly and effectively, liaise with other departments.
A creative and strategic thinker who has the innovative mindset to create visually appealing designs that align with business objectives.
Familiarity with CMS/CRM platforms like Drupal and Dynamics365.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Mondays (project management tool).

Responsibilities

Work in partnership with the marketing and comms teams on new creative projects to deliver best-in-class concepts.
Act as the gatekeeper for brand design projects, eshots, video, digital, and campaigns ensuring all assets comply with brand standards.
Maintain high creative standards for all digital output, conducting thorough reviews and revisions as necessary to ensure that outputs are engaging and on-brand.
Manage workflows of the design team from development of clear briefing process to concept to execution to ensure projects are completed successfully and on schedule.
Support on new business pitches and presentations.
In partnership with the Director of Marketing and Comms and other design members, articulate the creative strategy for Nasstar group and all brands/ sub-brands, campaigns & editorial, print projects, and events.
Keep up to date with industry, design and multi-media trends and be able to translate into new ideas and concepts which drive relevancy in the market.