Creative Manager

This role is key to the management of our client’s business, with responsibility for all the creative and design output of the business. The company strives daily to provide their customers with innovative, high quality solutions to their communication and marketing needs mainly packaging and labels, by providing the very best design and operational services in their market. They are happy to look at both experienced Art/Creative Directors/ Managers or less experienced staff looking to progress their careers.

Key responsibilities:

To direct the creative and design output of the company across all product categories.
To develop short/longer term strategic goals for the Creative Team, to agree revenue targets and achieve these from design revenue.
To set and manage the Creative Team overhead budget.
To manage the Creative Team, developing an organisational structure that will deliver the necessary service.
To ensure customer briefs are always answered with excellent and creative solutions.
To ensure that these solutions are of real value (to the customer), are profitable for the company and are delivered to deadline.
To work closely with the DTP/Studio Manager, collectively developing best practice workflow procedures and sharing workload in the most effective manner.
To work closely with the Account Managers (AM), encouraging them to better understand a customer’s needs/wishes and helping them to produce high quality project briefs.
To personally contribute to the Creative Team’s output, particularly taking a lead in new business projects.
To take an active role within the B2B Marketing team, maintaining a strong and creative contribution.
To manage the creation of all products and services required by the B2B Marketing team.
To organise the creation of exhibition stands and participate in trade shows.
To maximise the benefit of the Group purchasing services, working closely with the Group Purchasing Manager. The ideal candidate MUST HAVE:-

Formal training and excellent Graphical experience, preferably within print and packaging.
Print production knowledge at a high level as well as senior team management experience
Colour processes at a high level
Graphical work – innovative, sympathetic, with attention to detail
Use of Mac environment at the highest level
Use of Adobe CS/Quark at the highest level
Ability to communicate ideas effectively on paper, electronically and in person
Use of PowerPoint at a highly advanced level
Use of Excel at an intermediate level