Creative Lead

Base pay range

Salary: £50,000 per annum, plus company benefits

Contract:

Full Time, Permanent

Shifts:

37.5 hours per week, Monday–Friday, 7:30am–4pm with 1 hour unpaid lunch break

Williams Lea seeks a Creative Lead to join our team!

Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled, technology-enabled, business-critical support services, with long-term trusted relationships with blue-chip clients across investment banks, law firms and professional services firms. Williams Lea employees, nearly 7000 people worldwide, who provide efficient business services at client sites in often complex and highly regulated environments, from centralised Williams Lea onshore facilities, and through best cost company offshore locations.

The Creative Team Lead will be a dynamic integrated designer joining a Creative team, based at our Onshore Delivery Centre in Leeds supporting a leading global law firm based in London. You will be an independent thinker, able to work closely with clients and the global delivery team.

As part of the team, you will be responsible for representing the department, delivering exceptional design content for both print and digital platforms as well as contributing to strategic campaigns.

You must have an understanding and passion for taking content and representing this in an impactful and engaging way across appropriate print and digital communication channels. The key to the role is the delivery of innovative and creative content execution across media with a consistent look and feel.

We are looking for someone with a ‘can-do’ attitude, willing to put forward ideas and have a keen eye for detail. Ensuring that all work sent out is to the highest standard and within brand guidelines. The candidate should be an extremely organised and dedicated individual with strong communications skills.

The work is very fast moving and often requires the application of judgement. You will be required to interpret numerous client instructions and translate those requirements into ‘branded’ concepts and final designs, which work in both the digital and print spaces. The Creative Team Lead will also be responsible for the day-to-day management of the offsite team.

• To provide integrated creative solutions and campaigns that bring to life the content and ‘brand’ design
• Liaise with the client in a professional and helpful manner, proactively managing their expectations
• Support the business to manage and deliver Client work, right first time on time
• Interpret and challenge the brief requirements, offering the best solution for clients
• Take responsibility for escalating or resolving, as appropriate, any client issues, regularly communicating updates to the Studio Manager
• Help deliver the best branded solutions to the Client and market
• Proactively providing Clients outstanding printed and digital marketing collateral, in compliance with brand guidelines
• Think creatively to produce new ideas and concepts whilst working with the Creative Director
• Experience working with design principles of animation and moving image
• To use the workflow software and adapt to any existing procedures within the team
• Provide technical input and advice on print and digital projects as required
• Produce final files for print and write print specs
• Ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
• Creation of infographics
• Quality checking and accuracy
• To lead and develop the team through 1-2-1’s, team meetings, development and performance reviews
• To develop and up skill the team to focus on digital solutions
• Ensure that the workload and team is staffed correctly i.e. absence and holidays

• We require an extremely organised and dedicated individual with strong communications skills, and an advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite. Print, digital/moving image design along with working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• You will strive to achieve client satisfaction in all you do, as a key member of the Studio your colleagues will support and help develop you wherever possible. You will return the same sharing culture with your fellow colleagues and the business

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