Creative Director Beauty

Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead, UK (Hybrid)

£75K/yr – £85K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own big ideas and storytelling for beauty across live, digital and retail with insight-led strategy, while managing budgets, teams and client relationships.

  • Own big ideas across experiential, digital, social and retail channels with insight-led creativity.
  • Lead budgets, resource planning and mentorship of junior creatives to lift craft.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Champion insight‑led creativity, working closely with strategy to turn cultural, consumer and category insights into powerful ideas.
  • Review and elevate creative briefs, ensuring they are inspiring, focused and strategically on point.
  • Lead the development of big ideas across experiential, digital, social and retail environments.
  • Build compelling presentation narratives that bring ideas to life and excite clients using AI, visualising and 3D to bring these to life in polished and impactful ways.
  • Confidently present bold, inspiring creative work to senior clients and in pitch environments.
  • Lead and Inspire, mentor and develop creative talent, particularly more junior team members.
  • Partner with the Executive Creative Director and Client Development teams to grow and strengthen beauty client relationships.
  • Understand and manage creative budgets, time allocation and resource planning.

Requirements

  • A deep, genuine obsession with beauty, from brands and products to culture, trends and consumer behaviours.
  • Experience in experiential, activation or brand experience work.
  • Minimum 2 years in a senior creative leadership role (e.g. Associate Creative Director) and 8+ years agency experience or equivalent.
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual leadership, craft and innovation — ideally within beauty.
  • Proven experience working with world‑class beauty brands as well as challenger brands.
  • Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills.
  • Use of AI to sell in and visualise your ideas in the most compelling ways.
  • The ability to lead multiple projects and teams simultaneously, balancing creativity, budgets and timelines.
  • A collaborative mindset with the confidence to lead and inspire.
  • Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills.

Benefits

  • 23 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, rising each year (capped at 30 plus opportunity to buy / sell holiday scheme)
  • Life assurance - to support the financial security of your loved ones
  • Day one access to Digital GP service 24/7
  • Retail discounts scheme - save money on lots of everyday high street, online purchases as well as treats and experiences
  • Employee Assist Programme 24/7 - support when you need it on a range of practical, financial, health and legal issues
  • Head office perks including onsite gym, free breakfasts, free carparking and onsite café
  • Regular company socials
  • Quarterly and annual recognition award schemes
  • Salary sacrifice scheme to help with commute costs
  • Free onsite car parking and shuttle service from local train station
  • Hybrid working opportunities
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N2O

3.8 Glassdoor

N2O is a full-service creative brand experience agency that blends cultural intelligence, human insight and bold ideas to create moments people seek out, not scroll past.We help brands stand out in a world full of distraction, through campaigns that stir emotion, inspire participation and create lasting connection.Whether out in the world, online, in-store or at home, we build experiences that travel further and perform harder.Our work connects the full customer journey, from discovery to conversation to conversion, with a fully integrated model that brings every stage under one roof.Strategy-led. Insight-driven. Creatively executed. Built for real-world impact

Founded in 1999
Maidenhead, England, GBR
516 employees (115 in marketing)
79% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
28.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.5%
Direct
47.2%
Referral
4.5%
Social
1.3%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~519

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
83 (16% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6