Senior Creative Services Lead, New Look

• Planning
• Commercial

Desirable

• The Creative Services Lead will dynamically manage and facilitate the creative services required to deliver best-in-class content at New Look
• You will oversee the delivery of our creative output while maintaining creative integrity and fostering a strong ethos of collaboration across multiple stakeholders and teams consistently
• Own strategic planning of creative resources, both current and future-facing
• Effectively plan, resource, and manage projects across our creative function, comprising production, print and video
• Delegate creative tasks to team-members, manage the production budget, schedule meetings and creative reviews, liaise with cross-functional stakeholders, chase briefs, and ensure the timely planning of shoots and asset retouch
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of creative projects in order to guide work effectively throughout the business
• Manage and guide stakeholder expectations at every level against the critical path
• Be adept at allocating the right people to the right projects at the right time
• Actively collaborate with teams to offer options, build on ideas and get to creative solutions
• Proactively consider different strategic approaches to get to the best possible outcomes
• Apply an in-depth understanding of how the business charges, resources and allocates time to projects, to offer effective solutions
• Source great external talent as required on a project-by-project basis to support our requirements, utilising it effectively to meet deliverables
• Chairing regular critical path meetings with key stakeholders across Creative, Content, Production, Styling, Brand, Ecommerce studio and the wider Customer and Design teams
• Managing inter-departmental relations to support the timely delivery of the critical path
• End-to-end freelance management, including raising requisitions, receipting POs & ensuring all freelancers are IR35 compliant
• Working closely with Finance, HR, Talent and Procurement for budget management
• Continuous implementation of creative studio best-practice processes
• Coordinating an average of 150 briefs per week for seasonal campaign creative concepts, BAU assets for e-comm, CRM, social, OOH advertising, packaging, windows & POS and internal initiatives
• Review in house systems for briefing and recommend tools to service & support creative department and key stakeholders
• Challenging existing WoW and constantly pushing for more efficient effective ways of working
• Manage a team of artworkers
• Traffic and Manage work flow for full creative studio