At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead design execution from concept to delivery, ensuring alignment with creative direction and customer needs.
- Company: Join a dynamic team at a leading consumer products company focused on creativity and innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, free onsite parking, and a range of lifestyle benefits for a balanced life.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and development in the design field.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by bringing product ranges to life with your creative vision and expertise.
- Qualifications: Strong design experience, project management skills, and a keen eye for detail are essential.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 44000 £ per year.
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As a Design Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in translating range strategies into compelling customer solutions, grounded in consumer insight and creative vision.
Working closely with Creative, Editorial, Product and Artworking teams, you’ll lead design execution from concept through to SKU‑level delivery, ensuring alignment with creative direction, customer needs and business objectives.
You’ll help bring product ranges to life by balancing creative excellence with operational rigour, ensuring products are delivered to agreed standards, timelines and specifications.
Through strong collaboration and attention to detail, you’ll support the successful development of products that meet aesthetic, technical and commercial requirements.
- Your Responsibilities
- Lead the day‑to‑day development of ranges across categories and customer accounts, balancing creativity with effective delivery.
- Translate consumer and customer needs into line‑level design briefs aligned to the creative strategy.
- Partner with Art Directors and Product teams to develop range architecture while maintaining design integrity and manufacturability.
- Support customer presentations through digital SKUs and production mock‑ups, leading presentations where required.
- Apply manufacturing knowledge to design solutions and participate in technical and development meetings.
- Catalogue ideation, ranges and signatures to support range development and global asset sharing.
- Conduct asset searches and reservations to support range development activity.
- Brief Artwork Designers in line with Critical Date Path milestones and work with Creative Services to manage timelines and resources.
- Manage licensing approvals and ensure compliance with relevant rights and restrictions.
- Ensure accurate specifications, data and files are provided for pre‑production handover.
- Coordinate print trials and sealing processes alongside Product teams.
- Support the setup of new concepts within systems and maintain accurate project tracking information.
- Validate packaging files against agreed specifications.
- Your Accountabilities
- Deliver finished SKUs aligned to agreed range architecture and Critical Date Paths.
- Ensure design files meet technical specifications and are accurately maintained within systems.
- Maintain accurate and up‑to‑date project and brief tracking information.
- Ensure final products meet agreed quality, value and delivery standards.
- Key Relationships
- Head of Creative Services
- Art Directors
- Product & Range Managers
- Account Managers
- Marketing Managers
- Creative Studio
- Creative Services Manager
- Supply
- Technical Team
- Procurement
- To Be Successful You Will Need
- Strong creative capability and aesthetic judgement.
- Digital and technical agility.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and work with pace and urgency.
- Confidence in making timely decisions.
- Strong influencing skills and the confidence to challenge where appropriate.
- Project management capability.
- Strong technical understanding and attention to detail.
- Significant design experience, ideally within greetings cards or a related consumer products industry.
Based at our Dawson Lane site in Bradford, close to key motorway links you’ll be able to take advantage of:
- 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
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Design Manager in Bradford employer: Hallmark Cards
Hallmark Cards is an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Bradford where creativity meets commercial success. With a strong emphasis on employee growth and a hybrid working model, team members enjoy flexibility and a supportive culture that prioritises work/life balance, making it an ideal place for those looking to thrive in their careers while maintaining personal well-being.
