Creative Lead

Job Title: Creative Lead

Client Location: London (Remote)

Starting: 20/10/2025

Pay Comments: £350 - £380 per day

Duration: 2 months with potential to extend

Job Description:

We are seeking a Creative Lead to support in managing our on-demand design centre. The ideal candidate will have experience in leading and mentoring creative teams, delivering innovative and creative solutions, and ensuring high-quality designoutput. The successful candidate will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to provide design solutions that meet the clients expectations.

YOU MUST CURRENTLY BE BASED IN THE UK TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS ROLE

• Our core focus is to Deliver high quality corporate information.
• You will be working to drive an existing creative/design department offering alternate solutions to pitchbook and marketing produced by the onsite document production and graphics operators offering new ideas and concepts to enhanced output.
• You will also be producing graphics and artwork using a variety of software programmes, servicing all departments.
• Graphics work includes creating design concepts and artworking for marketing campaigns, brochures, adverts, events and conference collateral.
• Multimedia work may include branded HTML emails, Flash animations/presentations and web publishing

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Meeting clients to discuss the business objectives and requirements of the job
• Interpreting the clients business needs and developing a concept to suit their purpose
• Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts
• Demonstrating illustrative skills with rough sketches
• Project management, pre empting issues, coordinating artwork, print and delivery,web-work
• Design and art working from initial creative concepts through to final delivery
• Presenting finalised ideas and concepts to clients
• To liaise with external suppliers of services to ensure that work meets exact requirements as specified
• To guide and advise other members of the team in the design and use of template material, providing training where necessary
• To follow clearly defined department workflow processes including quality control and pre-flight checking
• To punctually complete time-sheets, work tickets and to give an accurate reflection of time spent on all projects

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Formally design trained with a relevant qualification in graphic design
• An excellent knowledge and experience of printing techniques and issues
• Able to develop compelling concepts and offer innovative design solutions within tight corporate design guidelines
• Experience of estimating, project management, print buying and scheduling
• Creative flair
• Confidence to present and articulate ideas to clients and colleagues
• The ability to balance work on several projects at a time

Technical skills

• Expert level Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe illustrator
• Intermediate Flash, Adobe Premiere and Dreamweaver
• Good familiarity with PPT, Excel and Word
• Strong Acrobat skills including advanced functions
• Pre-Press: highly experienced and expert at checking of files before sending to printers, including complex cutter guides, measurements and colour set up

Personal attributes

• Approach - Calm and mature personality with the ability to work both on own initiative and in a team environment, often under pressure and to strict deadlines
• Design Skills - strong level of technical and creative design knowledge
• Flexibility - flexibility regarding working hours
• Client Focus - must demonstrate a client focused approach to providing a service through personal commitment to the client and their business.
• Should build effective client relationships based on trust, flexibility and a professional approach and be able to deal confidently with clients
• People skills - must demonstrate good people skills and keep clients informed of progress and the processes involved.
• Project/Time Management - excellent time management skills, Designer will be required to manage several projects on a daily basis, with the ability to prioritise and delegate