designer Sheffield, England
Job description
Creative Team Manager/Senior Designer
At Diva our creative team is driven, focused and passionate about their work. We relish a challenge and fully invest in the relationships we build with clients, colleagues and collaborators.
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic individual to join our award-winning Creative Team as a Senior Designer and Team Manager. You will join us as an individual who is looking to build, shape and nurture the Creative Team to become the best it can be whilst continuing to develop your own skills in design and creative interpretation. You will be a valued member of a team behind one of Yorkshire’s most successful ethical marketing agencies.
Find out more about us and our work at www.divacreative.com
Please send portfolio with application.
Role
We’re looking for someone who has strong design skills, can tell great stories through a visual medium with expertise in brand development, developing creative concepts from briefs, pitching your ideas and executing them with confidence and conviction.
You will be part of a team of great designers, illustrators and animators, who you will work collaboratively with and support with their workflow and skill acquisition as the team leader.
Your responsibilities will include:
Team management
- Confident and competent in managing a small creative team including workload management and project allocation based on skills and capacity. Ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budgets.
- Support career development, implementing and monitoring training opportunities for the team
- Support further development and implementation of agency-wide processes, and ensure they are being adhered to, maintaining high standards and giving feedback where team members may not be performing
- Leading ongoing team 121s, including appraisals and setting objectives, and working with team members to achieve their goals.
Creative and design responsibilities
- Interpretation of briefs and developing concepts
- Client liaison and pitching new creative ideas
- Delivering engaging and eye-catching design
- Building brands, from initial brand development through to brand evolution
- Producing content for social media, print and other media
- Participating in briefing sessions and studio discussions
- Working with the in-house account management team
- Collaborating with the in-house business development team to develop ideas and executions for pitches
- Taking work through to publication on and offline
Skills and experience
- Senior Designer level
- Minimum five + years’ industry experience
- Strong contemporary portfolio
- Illustration, brand design, animation would be an advantage
- Developing creative briefs ino concepts and execution
- Self-motivation and a passion to develop further as a senior designer
- A genuine interest in creating work that challenges attitudes, changes minds and makes a difference
- Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail and organisational skills
- Creativity, confidence and enthusiasm
Why Diva
Achieving the right work-life balance and personal progression are important to us as we believe this will give our people the opportunity to develop a highly rewarding career.
You will work with friendly, like-minded colleagues who share your desire to make a difference, bringing ideas and creativity into our work as much as possible. Diva is based in a great location opposite Sheffield train station, and most people work within a hybrid home/work pattern.
We offer a range of employee benefits:
· 28 days annual leave, including Bank Holidays, plus Christmas shutdown, and extra Bank Holiday in August plus additional annual leave days after 2 years service
· Hybrid working
· Great opportunities for career progression, with regular reviews
· Individual training support plan funded by the company
· Time off for volunteering and supporting charities (discretionary)
· Company new bike scheme through salary sacrifice
· Family-friendly policy and discretionary sabbatical leave
· Regular social opportunities including games afternoons and team activities
We believe in inclusive recruitment
· We recognise the great benefits of having a diverse workforce with different backgrounds, employed solely on ability.
· We're committed not only to our legal obligations, but also to the positive promotion of equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.
· We're therefore committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community of work colleagues – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.
· We offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, and welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and sections of the community.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £33,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Sheffield: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)
Experience:
- Senior Graphic design: 5 years (required)
- Team management: 3 years (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Creative Team Manager
