Head of Creative (Marketing)

Crowborough, East Sussex, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape the creative direction for a household-name brand by leading an in-house team and coordinating with agencies to deliver cohesive, distinctive brand expressions across all channels and markets.

  • Own creative direction and multi-channel output with strong collaboration between in-house team and agency partners.
  • Align teams around a clear creative vision and streamlined ways of working to accelerate impact.
  • Lead a hands-on, senior creative function to drive measurable brand consistency and creative strength for UK and international growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • lead, inspire and developed our in-house creative team as well as working alongside our agency partners to drive real step-change, consistency and alignment across all multi-channel touchpoints within our creative output.
  • reimagine how the brand shows up across every touchpoint, ensuring it is cohesive, distinctive, and creatively compelling.
  • align teams around a clear creative direction, and embed more effective ways of working.
  • This is a hands-on senior role, leading our creative team and direction, that gives the opportunity to drive real impact within a household name brand, and for an incredible community of new and expectant parents (plus gifters) as part of our UK and International growth plans and purpose.
  • As Head of Creative , bringing clarity, consistency, and creative strength to our brand.

Requirements

  • If you come from a pure creative consumer marketing (whether product or retail), at Head of Creative, Senior Design Manager, or Creative Lead type levels
  • having lead in-house creative design teams & studios across: - Creative Direction - Brand Expression - Creative Development, Campaigns & Storytelling - Brand Guardianship & Creative Quality
  • Role is full time, 5 days per week with a minimum of 3 days a week at our Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (HD5 0RH) Head office & Design Studio base.
  • NOTE regarding your application: Please provide a copy of your Design Portfolio as part of your application.

Benefits

  • 33 days holiday, increasing up to 40 with service.
  • Buy & Sell holiday schemes
  • Company Bonus Schemes
  • Employer pension contribution from day 1 enrolment.
  • Significant staff discounts for family & friends from our shops & online
  • Ongoing offers & discounts across a variety of external organisations, from holidays, travel, restaurants, gifts & services to many more worthy discounts through our Benefits Hub
  • Subsidised health & critical illness cover and insurances
  • Supportive family related leave policies (including company enhanced pay for maternity, IVF & Fertility, surrogacy, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave)
  • Supportive Foster Care & Carers Leave offering
  • Support for Loss and Bereavement
  • A Menopause Friendly Employer
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Mamas & Papas

3.6 Glassdoor

We’re Mamas & Papas, and we’ve got 45 years’ experience of helping proud parents grow their family, their way. Our range of award-winning products are lovingly designed and developed by us to support our customers on their parenting journeys, from nursery furniture and interiors, to pushchairs, clothing, equipment and toys. Born and bred in Yorkshire, our head office is based in Huddersfield, and we’ve got over 50 stores and concessions across the UK and Ireland. We’re partial to a little globetrotting – trading in over 30 countries around the world too.We’re all about community here at Mamas & Papas, and we’re always on the lookout for talented people to join ours. Everything we do – from our retail and product design teams, to our marketing and digital departments – places family, and that passion for parenting at the heart of it all.To view our current vacancies, simply take those amazing first steps towards our careers pages ofmamasandpapas.com/careersOr, you can connect or follow The Recruitment Team here on LinkedIn for more vacancy updates and insights.

Founded in 1981
Huddersfield, England, GBR
874 employees (92 in marketing)
79% recommend to a friend
89% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
70.2%
Direct
18%
Referral
1.9%
Social
1.6%
Paid
2.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~874

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
64 (7% of company)

Funding

Last Raise
Debt Financing, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2024
    Debt Financing

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