Brand and Design Lead Southampton, England
Ordnance Survey
Full Time
Southampton, England
46861 - 55130 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
As an organisation OS is embarking on an ambitious growth strategy in location data, insight, and services. Innovating our products, services, and technology to benefit our customers, businesses, and people across Great Britain and globally. To do this, we want to continue adding new skills and capabilities to our business.
Our dynamic Customer and Marketing team is looking for people to support their mission - to reach the hearts, minds, and spirits of our customers to help them meet their goals.
About the Role
We are looking for a Brand and Design Lead to join our Customer & Marketing department. You’ll take ownership of the OS brand and help strategically grow and steer our visual presence. You’ll be committed to innovating, differentiating, and developing a consistent brand identity that positions our brand purpose, and increases awareness both locally and in international markets. This role is pivotal in championing the OS brand and collaborating with colleagues around the business on consumer, B2B and government projects.
If you are someone who embraces creative thinking and flair, can balance cross functional collaboration with a well organised process driven approach, and has a passion for delighting customers to ensure brand success then we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Brand & Design team, coordinate creative delivery, shape compelling brand vision, and maximise audience reach (internally and externally) through viable channels.
- Be a brand project stakeholder providing expertise and guidance throughout the organisation.
- Responsible for the brand portal, brand guidelines, image library, merchandise portal, briefing process, reporting, campaign toolkits and external agency management.
- Own and oversee all brand and design resourcing and workflow through sprints. Identify any potential challenge / risk to business delivery and mitigate / support the team to deliver.
- Review and approve brand design executions across the business and liaise / advise external agencies, ensuring ‘One OS’ alignment and brand code is adopted.
- Accountable for the Brand & Design budget / facilitate accurate forecasting and invoicing.
- Maintain and develop relationships across the business.
- Support Head of Brand & Digital to deliver the One OS brand strategy and purpose. Key contact for brand strategic / creative agency. Support and lead on strategic briefs and delivery of projects, campaigns, and brand architecture.
What we are looking for
- Previous experience managing an internal design studio.
- Integrated 360 campaign planning, execution, and analysis (campaigns, creative concept, design, content, media planning, media buying, social, KPIs, and post campaign analysis)
- Strategic thinker who can provide valued brand guidance to marketing teams and wider business.
- Focus on leadership and team development.
- Experience across both B2C and B2B.
- Excellent presentation skills.
The rewards
We want you to love what you do. That’s why our benefits package rewards a job well done. We’ll give you:
- Salary: £46,861 - £55,130 (depending on experience)
- Performance related bonus
- A competitive pension scheme
- 37 hour working week (with flexible working options)
- 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas
- Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits
Location
OSHQ is based in Southampton, Hampshire but at OS we believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We embrace a hybrid working model where we believe the choice is with the individual on when they work from our fantastic office or from home. We want to continue to be an inclusive employer and recognise that one size doesn’t necessarily fit all.
Closing date Sunday 20th August 2023
Security
OS conducts DBS background checks for all joiners and some of our roles require additional security clearance, including to SC or DV level in some cases. We will tell candidates at the appropriate time during the recruitment process if additional clearance will be required for this role.
We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together – in a supportive and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We think combining different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way. We are looking for dedicated and experienced individuals from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.
We’re individually passionate and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want.
Ordnance Survey
www.os.uk
Southampton, United Kingdom
Stephen Lake
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1001 to 5000 Employees
Government
Information Technology Support Services
1791
