Head of Creative Studio

Scotland, UK (Hybrid)

£71K/yr – £81K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 days ago

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Job Summary

You will own VisitScotland's creative strategy and brand guardianship, leading a multidisciplinary Creative Studio to deliver insight-led campaigns that strengthen Scotland's reputation and maximise impact.

  • Lead strategic direction for creative and brand activities and champion audience-centred design.
  • Oversee delivery, governance, budgets, and stakeholder relationships to ensure efficient, high-quality outputs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Creative Studio brings VisitScotland's strategy, brand and storytelling to life through impactful creative communications, design and multimedia content. As guardians of the VisitScotland brand, the team combines creativity, design thinking and audience insight to create compelling experiences that engage audiences, support organisational priorities, enhance Scotland's reputation and maximise the impact of VisitScotland's work.
  • Lead VisitScotland's creative and brand strategy, acting as brand guardian and ensuring all creative activity strengthens Scotland's reputation as a world-leading destination.
  • Provide strategic leadership for the Creative Studio, leading and developing a high-performing multidisciplinary team while championing creativity, innovation and audience-centred design across the organisation.
  • Oversee the delivery and continuous improvement of creative services, ensuring campaigns, content, design systems and multimedia outputs are insight-led, impactful and delivered efficiently through effective use of people, processes and technology.
  • Manage key stakeholder, agency and supplier relationships, overseeing budgets and resources while representing VisitScotland externally to maximise organisational impact, value for money and collaboration.

Benefits

  • With family-friendly and flexible working policies, we offer an impressive range of benefits and professional development. You can read more about working for us, our benefits and our culture by clicking here
  • Hybrid working culture, partially office and partially home based.
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VisitScotland

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As an economic growth agency, we aim to drive the Scottish visitor economy by growing the value of tourism and events. To do this, we focus on three areas: market development, business and experience development and place and destination development.A leader in responsible tourism, our activities are aimed at creating better places for people to live, work and visit. As an employer, we offer an inclusive and progressive culture that prioritises our people, creating a positive working environment that encourages flexible and sustainable work practices for all our employees. We aim to be an employer of choice.For more information visit our corporate website - VisitScotland.org.

Founded in 1969
Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
579 employees (105 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
37.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$108
Traffic Source Mix
Search
55.8%
Direct
30.6%
Referral
9%
Social
2.8%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~579

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
86 (15% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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