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Creative Services & Content Lead Jobs in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom at The Mind Collective (TMC)
Creative Services & Content Lead
Location: Hybrid / Birmingham
Contract Type: Part-Time (minimum 16-24 hours per week)
This role offers flexibility and part-time hours, so could suit someone returning to work or looking to balance other commitments.
About Us:
The Mind Collective offers bespoke marketing solutions for SMEs, challenger brands, and start-
ups across FMCG food, drink, personal care, and consumer goods. 10 years ago, we pioneered a
plug-and-play marketing model that provides flexible, modern marketing capability without the
overhead of a traditional in-house team.
We work with a wide range of exciting brands including Kraft Heinz, Lea & Perrins, Amoy, HP Sauce, Heinz for Baby, Heinz Pasta Sauces, Golden Acre Foods, Neat Clean, The Curators, Love Sum Dumplings, Symposium Spirits, Hayman's Gin, Mighty Slice Cheesecake, All The Aunties, Island Delight and more.
Website: https://www.themindcollective.co.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themindcollectiveuk
Role Overview:
This is a senior, hands-on role responsible for the development and execution of Creative Services at TMC. The role leads the Creative Services function, ensuring we have a clear and commercially viable creative offering that meets client demand and supports business growth.
You will lead all aspects of creative and content output, from defining visual identity and creative direction through to execution and delivery, working closely with the Social Media & Content Lead, Founder and Performance Marketing team to ensure alignment across brands and channels. Alongside this, you will manage the Creative Services team and ensure all output is delivered to a consistently high standard.
This role combines creative thinking with hands-on delivery and plays a key role in shaping and evolving our Creative Services offering in line with client demand and business growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead new business for Creative Services, with clear accountability for revenue growth and commercial performance within this area
- Own and lead Creative Services across TMC, evolving the offer in line with client demand and business needs
- Manage and develop the Creative Services team (Graphic Designer and Video Content Creator)
- Manage multiple, multi-faceted creative and content projects across brands and channels, balancing pace, quality and commercial impact
- Oversee and deliver creative projects end-to-end (photography, videography and content production)
- Lead creative concepting and ideation (mood boards, visual territories, campaign thinking etc)
- Work closely with the Social Media & Content Lead to define and evolve visual identity across client brands
- Own and evolve TMC’s visual identity across all internal and external output
- Work cross-functionally with social, paid, digital and e-commerce teams to ensure creative output lands effectively
- Identify and implement new creative opportunities and capabilities (e.g. TikTok Lives, motion, AI-led content)
- Stay ahead of design and content trends, ensuring creative output evolves in line with changing platforms, channels and consumer behaviour
- Build and improve creative processes and systems (briefing, creator databases & ways of working)
Key Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) and proven experience in a creative, content or marketing role
- Strong experience leading creative output across brands from concept through to execution
- Demonstrable experience delivering creative projects end-to-end
- Experience managing and developing designers, videographers or content creators
- Strong creative thinking with the ability to translate ideas into commercially effective output
- Experience across photography, videography and content production
- Strong understanding of emerging formats and platforms (e.g. TikTok, short-form video, creators, motion)
- Commercial awareness; understanding how creative drives brand growth and client objectives
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines and priorities
- Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
- Excellent interpersonal and client management skills
- Proactive, accountable and able to bring energy and pace
Benefits & Package (pro-rated to working hours):
- Competitive salary (DOE)
- Annual performance bonus (up to 10%)
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (with option to buy/sell up to 5 days)
- Option to work part-time or term-time for the right candidate
- Your birthday off
- Private healthcare
- Life insurance (4x salary)
- Contributory pension scheme
- £250 annual wellness stipend
- Flexible core working hours
- Hybrid working with 10 anchor days per month in a Birmingham city centre co-working space
- Monthly socials, regular training and tailored development plans
- Insights™ Discovery Profile
What is it like working at TMC:
We are a fast-paced, passionate team (from fresh graduates to seasoned pros) working across multiple clients and categories where every day brings something new. We genuinely care about each other, our clients and the work we do. We are collaborative, inquisitive, resourceful, resilient and commercially focused. We are transparent – no smoke and mirrors, fluff or bullsh!t – we are not stuffy or corporate. We are just real people doing great work and having fun along the way. 99% of our business comes through word of mouth, which tells you everything about the relationships we build. We are proud to be part of our client’s teams and their ambitious growth plans. We’re not perfect (no business is) but we are always learning, evolving and supporting one another.
If you’re looking for a role where your work matters, your ideas shape the output, and you can help build something meaningful, we’d love to welcome you to the team.
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Title: Creative Services & Content Lead
Company: The Mind Collective (TMC)
Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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