Senior Creative Design Lead (Maternity Cover)

London, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelTemporary

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Owns the creative design function end-to-end, translating brand strategy into omni-channel outputs while leading a team, collaborating with stakeholders, and grounding design decisions in customer insight to drive the Look Brand forward.

  • Leadership and mentorship: guide the Creative Design team to deliver consistent brand identity across print, digital, and experiential assets.
  • Omni-channel production: own asset creation for windows, stores, website, CRM, campaigns, and social content.
  • Stakeholder collaboration and data-driven design: partner with creative partners to ideate strategy and tailor outputs to customer engagement patterns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Creative Design team to deliver the ‘New Look Feeling’ to customers in ever new and exciting ways
  • Inspire and mentor a team; lead the Creative Design team to deliver the brand identity
  • Collaborate with key creative stakeholders in the ideation and delivery of the creative strategy
  • Produce all creative collateral for the Look Brand across print and digital including windows, store assets, website, home pages, CRM, editorial features, campaigns, and social media assets
  • Work within the Creative team reporting to the Creative General Manager; coordinate with the broader Design and Styling teams and VM
  • Ensure customer-centric design using data and insight to tailor outputs to what customers engage with and are inspired by

Requirements

  • Previous experience of leading a creative design team in a fast-paced environment
  • Proven track record / experience of the key stages of the design process from creative concept to design development and asset creation to tight deadlines
  • A conceptual creative, creating designs for omni channel campaigns including digital and print
  • Clear understanding of seasonal brand handwriting, tone of voice and style guides and applying it to all seasonal artworks
  • Skilled in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and proficient in Office based programmes; Knowledge of After Effects and Sketch
  • Significant experience in art direction of shoots for fashion; WW shoots essential and Teen/children’s shoots an advantage
  • Demonstrated understanding of UX and UI principles
  • You love all things fashion and get a buzz from finding new ways to deliver the trends our customers love

Preferred

  • Experience with fashion e-commerce campaigns
  • Experience with data-driven design decisions
  • Experience with teen/children’s shoots (advantage)

Benefits

  • 40% staff discount plus friends & family discounts throughout the year
  • Access to our reward platform for external discount and offers
  • Private pension scheme
  • Profit related bonus scheme
  • Option to join our Healthcare Private Medical Scheme
  • Virtual GP access for you and your children – speak to a doctor at a time that suits you
  • All employees are covered by our life assurance policy from day one
  • Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme
  • Celebrate YOU! Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave (eligible after 2 years service)
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We’re the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and stores across the UK! 🛍️ It’s our New Looker’s that create a great place to work everyday, whether in our stores, our two Support Centres, our in-house Studio, Distribution Centre or our field based teams. By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it starts with me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other. We’re always on the lookout for talented people to join our New Look team, so visit our careers site below to check out our current live vacancies. Please note - our Recruitment team will never ask you to share personal information via LinkedIn directly, so beware of fraudulent accounts. Take a look at our feed to get a glimpse of life inside our New Look team and who knows, maybe you could be joining us very soon! 👀

Founded in 1969
London, England, GBR
8.4K employees (594 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
50.5%
Direct
33.8%
Referral
11.8%
Social
2.4%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
321 (4% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$39.3M
Last Raise
$39.3M
Undisclosed, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2025
    Undisclosed • $39.3M

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