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Art Director

Job Type : Permanent, Full Time

Salary :

Central to our product and range development process, our Art Directors are the lynch pin between Creative, Product & Ranging and Commercial functions.

Reporting into the Head of Creative, you’ll support the development and implementation of customer-specific creative and commercial visions.

Working as part of a cross-functional, customer-focused team, you will identify creative trends & market gaps and taking your knowledge of design, product development and shopper insights, you’ll establish, articulate and champion customer & consumer needs to create compelling creative strategies and product solutions. Your role is to ensure the product ranges, concepts and formats hit the shelves exceeding expectations in all areas; design aesthetic, cost of product, sustainability, market appetite and sale-ability to name a few.

A varied role, you’ll flex both your creative and commercial skills, bringing to life strategy and creative vision in a way that ultimately speaks to our varied consumer base, on a personal level, helping everyone lead emotionally connected lives.

Art Director Responsibilities include:

Lead creatively in the product and range development process, ensuring the creative vision is fulfilled and championed from concept to delivery
Interpret the customer strategy, overlay insights and define the creative direction
Translating consumer, retailer and shopper insights & trends information into market leading product solutions and concepts
You will play a part in determining how this shows up in store – balancing the creative with the commercials, including cost of goods and consumer appetite
Leading the design team through inspirational, articulate briefing and art direction, ensuring a successful understanding and execution of strategies to produce market-leading product.
A cross functional leader, you’ll be the design influencer internally and with the Customer, leading effective ways of working and strong relationships, keeping the creative vision alive
Exemplary end to end understanding to support best practice ways of working, build efficiencies and continuous improvement in order to improve the product or work process

Art Director Requirements:

Whilst design, trend and insights will be the central to your success, you’ll enjoy a varied role equally leveraging your leadership and commercial understanding too. To be successful in this role we’re looking for you to demonstrate:

Previous experience of working in a similar role, in a creative led environment. FMCG environment beneficial, but not essential.
Previous experience of developing ranges of products, such as textiles, apparel, homewares, greetings etc
A solid commercial understanding, seamlessly factoring this into the way you influence others, pitch ideas and lead your team. The ability to commercialise ideation and drive profitability
A solid understanding of design, product development and visual merchandising process
You’re skilled at bringing the right product to market, in the right way, at the right time with impact and authority
Your commitment to engaging in and encouraging a culture of feedback, discussion and collaboration to enable highly productive, flexible and resilient ways of working from ideation through to final sku approval
A skilled leader of people, ideally with previous experience on performance management with direct and indirect teams
Experience of building global relationships to utilise resource and shared learnings, would be a significant advantage.

Based at our Dawson Lane site in Bradford, close to key motorway links you’ll be able to take advantage of:

Competitive salary
26 days holiday plus bank holidays
Annual bonus scheme
Health cashback scheme
Pension benefit
Flexible working opportunities including hybrid working
Free onsite parking for when you are in the office
A variety of other cultural and lifestyle benefits, aimed at promoting a positive work/life balance

Location: Bradford, BD4 6HN
Division: Creative, Product & Marketing
Contract Type: Permanent – Salaried

You may have experience in the following: Head of Creative Services, Marketing Communications, Creative Services, Marketing Manager, Creative Director, Retail, Visual Merchandiser, NPD, New Product Development, Art Editor, Design Manager, Designer, Senior Art Editor, Art Director, etc.

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