Overview
Creative Lead Jobs in Leicester, England, United Kingdom at Creative Recruitment
Creative Lead
Start – ASAP
Location – Leicester
Working Pattern: Hybrid (Leicester) or can be remote, with travel to client and team meetings as required
Salary – £55,000 – £60,000
MUST HAVE
- Solid knowledge using PowerPoint, Keynote
- Fully experienced across Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Experience using Figma, After Effects & Premier a bonus
- Skilled in AI Tools, Midjourney, Vero, Claude, Firefly, Runway etc…
Key Responsibilities
Creative Strategy
- Own and define the creative vision across all projects, ensuring work is strategically aligned, innovative, and best-in-class.
- Translate complex client briefs into clear creative direction and compelling visual storytelling.
- Lead the development of brand digital campaign concepts, presentation design, and storyboards for high-impact communications and event experiences.
- Maintain and evolve creative standards in line with brand and enterprise positioning.
Enterprise Client Engagement
- Build strong relationships with enterprise-level stakeholders, acting as a trusted creative partner.
- Confidently lead client workshops, briefings, and presentations articulating ideas with clarity and authority.
- Bring strong problem-solving skills to navigate complex challenges, balancing creativity with commercial and technical requirements.
- Shape briefs collaboratively, ensuring outputs deliver measurable impact.
AI & Creative Innovation
- Champion the use of AI-powered tools and workflows to enhance creativity, efficiency, and scalability (e.g. generative tools, automation, content/image adaptation).
- Identify opportunities to embed AI into creative processes beyond surface-level execution.
- Drive innovation across design systems, storytelling, and content production.
- Ensure the team remains up to date with emerging tools and creative technologies.
Creative Delivery & Craft
- Oversee the creation of high-quality creative outputs across digital, campaigns, event & presentation design, and experience-led work.
- Maintain strong hands-on capability across Adobe Creative Cloud, with strong knowledge of PowerPoint and presentation design.
- Ensure all work meets brand, technical, and enterprise-level standards.
- Provide clear creative direction across storyboarding, layout, and visual storytelling.
Team Mentorship
- Mentor, and develop designers (in-house and freelance)
- Provide clear, direction and guidance to elevate work and build capability.
- Support ideation sessions and encourage innovative thinking across the team.
- Create a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Creative Operations & Enablement
- Oversee the development of scalable design systems, templates, and reusable assets to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Ensure structured creative workflow processes and best practices are embedded across the team.
- Partner with project management, content, and client services to deliver seamlessly across projects.
Title: Creative Lead
Company: Creative Recruitment
Location: Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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