Head of Brand & Creative Kenilworth, England
Job description
Head of Brand & Creative
Full Time - 35 hours per week (working hours)
Circa Starting Salary: £55,000
Based at our HQ near Stoneleigh, Warwickshire (Agile working arrangements available)
The British Horse Society is the nation’s largest equine charity with a passion for horses that is backed by knowledge and expertise. The BHS represents and provides a range of services for horse riders, horse owners, enthusiasts and professionals.
Our Home Team within the Society is made up of professionals who bring together a variety of experiences, backgrounds and perspectives. We celebrate the diversity of our people and place a high value on creating an environment where everyone can bring their whole self to work. Many of our Home Team members work flexibly; we believe in giving our employees autonomy to decide where, when and how they work within a set of principles agreed within the team.
We are looking for someone who can be part of an exciting period of transformation for the BHS. The Head of Brand and Creative is a new role, and the successful candidate will have the enviable task of building the brand and creative strategy for the coming years. This is both a strategic and a hands on creative role and would suit someone who has had a varied creative career. We want someone to join our senior marketing team, bringing positivity and future thinking, whilst bringing our work to life.
Key skills needed for this exciting role:
- Proposition & product development
- Brand visual identity
- Creative strategy
- Asset Management
- Campaign creative planning
- Leadership & influencing skills
So, you’re interested?
Here’s some information on the role….
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop the brand strategy. With input from the Marketing & Communications Director, review the established foundations of the brand and propose a long-term strategy
- Work on the development of our brand proposition and the creation of new fundraising and membership products
- In depth understanding of our audiences and how that translates into creative output
- Act as the guardian of the brand and the voice for the brand values within the team and wider organisation
- Develop brand guidelines which will be used as the company’s definitive point of reference for brand visuals, messaging, and tone of voice
- Influence key stakeholders in support of consistent representation of the brand
- Lead on a variety of campaigns and creative projects. Setting briefs, contributing ideas, and overseeing progress, you’ll work closely with internal and external creative specialists
- Set procedures, frameworks, and reports to enable us to understand the strength of our brand and to track progress over time
- Manage all creative assets including photography, image archiving and video content and creation
- Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is considered in all creative outputs
Person Specification:
- Proven experience in a senior brand or creative marketing position
- Proven ability to develop effective brand strategies and product propositions, and to communicate proposals to senior management
- Demonstrable skills and experience in creating and developing creative campaigns which successfully translates into value adding operational activity
- Exceptional eye for detail and creative execution
- Experience of working with and getting the best from creative specialists including designers, video teams and copywriters
- Experience with the ideation and execution of campaign creative using both video and static imagery
- Experience in asset management and ensuring efficient and effective archiving and use of images and video content
- Excellent understanding of the broad channel marketing mix and the appropriate use of creative and testing
- A great eye for brand and creative execution
- Experience in embedding EDI in creative output
- Commercially astute with a solid understand of how brand and creative contribute to organisational objectives
- Experienced line manager with a track record in developing and leading high performing teams
What will you get in return?
- Annual Leave: 26 days + plus bank holidays (increasing to 28 days after 3 years’ service)
- Pension: Automatic entry at 4% into our scheme after 3-month deferral period, contributions matched up to 5%
- Health Benefits: health (income protection) insurance,health cash plan, life assurance at 4 x salary, yearly flu jab
- Wellbeing Support: ‘Everymind at Work’ mental health and wellbeing app and quarterly webinars, opportunities to participate in range of engagement activities such as our book and gardening clubs, ‘Put the Kettle On’ informal virtual chats and our annual Funuary activities!
- Training and Development: Access to a range of formal and informal development opportunities, including BHS Wise (our e-learning platform), our ‘A Day in Your Shoes’ cross-departmental work shadowing scheme and ‘C-Me’ communication workshops.
The British Horse Society is committed to achieving equity for all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better organisational outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all employees.
We therefore strongly encourage suitably experienced people from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.
Only suitable candidates will be contacted directly about this position, and we will not store or process the data of candidates for longer than is necessary for the recruitment process.
How to apply: please provide a cover letter/personal statement highlighting your relevant skills and experience and how they meet the essential skills for this role, along with a CV.. For further details on this and other opportunities, please visit www.bhs.org.uk.
Please note: we will be speaking to and interviewing candidates throughout the advertised period; to avoid disappointment, we advise you to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time.
Closing Date for applications: 17th February 2023.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- On-site parking
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Kenilworth
Application deadline: 17/02/2023
