Creative Designer in London

Description

Who is Pizza Hut?

Founded by the Carney brothers more than 60 years ago, Pizza Hut has grown into the World’s largest pizza company, with over 18,000 stores in more than 100 countries.

Around 1,500 of these are located across 25 European Markets.

Our European headquarters are based at the Restaurant Support Centre (RSC) in Borough, London.

Who is Long Range Capital?

Long Range Capital is an investment firm that supports strong businesses with the ambition to make them even better.

As Pizza Hut’s future owner, it is committed to investing in the brand, empowering its people and driving sustainable growth rather than pursuing short-term gains.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a business with bold ambitions, backed by patient capital and an owner focused on unlocking Pizza Hut’s long term potential.

About the Role

We're looking for a talented and ideas-driven Creative Designer to bring the Pizza Hut brand to life across every touchpoint.

This role will be responsible for creating compelling visual assets that drive brand awareness, customer engagement, and commercial performance across Paid digital, social, CRM, Web & App, in-store, and franchisee communications.

You'll own the creative process end to end: from initial brief through concept development, stakeholder sign-off, and final delivery.

You'll work closely with brand, digital, media, CRM, operations, and external agency partners to develop creative solutions that are both visually impactful and strategically effective.

This is an exciting opportunity for a designer who combines strong creative craft with commercial awareness, project management and a passion for culture, storytelling, and consumer brands.

Responsibilities

• Brand & Campaign Creative
• Develop high-quality creative assets for integrated marketing campaigns across digital, social, CRM, POS, packaging, and in-restaurant communications.
• Translate campaign strategies and briefs into engaging, on-brand visual concepts.
• Support product launches, seasonal campaigns, partnerships, value promotions, and brand-building initiatives.
• Ensure all creative output aligns with brand guidelines and maintains a consistent visual identity.
• Content Creation
• Create static, motion, and video content for social media and digital channels.
• Design engaging assets for owned and paid media platforms.
• Support photography and video shoots, including creative direction, retouching, editing, and asset delivery.
• Adapt creative for multiple formats, channels, and audience segments.
• Creative Development & Innovation
• Generate fresh ideas that keep the brand culturally relevant and visually distinctive.
• Stay on top of design trends, creative best practices, emerging technologies, and social content formats.
• Contribute to campaign ideation sessions and creative workshops.
• End-to-End Creative Project Management
• Own the full creative lifecycle for assigned projects - from brief intake and timeline planning through production, review cycles, and final delivery.
• Use project management tools/workflows to plan, track deliverables and keep multiple stakeholders aligned on status and deadlines.
• Balance and prioritise, ensuring on-time delivery without compromising creative quality.
• Stakeholder & Agency Management
• Collaborate closely with marketing managers, agencies, franchisee teams, and external partners.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining quality standards.
• Present creative concepts confidently and professionally to senior stakeholders, articulating the strategic rationale behind design decisions and incorporating feedback constructively.
• Prepare polished presentation materials (decks, mood boards, mock-ups) that clearly communicate creative direction and campaign impact.
• Brand Governance
• Act as a guardian of the brand's visual identity.
• Support the development and evolution of creative guidelines, templates, and asset libraries.
• Ensure consistency across UK and local market executions.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience

Essential

• 3–5 years' experience in a creative design role, ideally within retail, hospitality, FMCG, QSR, or consumer brands.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in visual design across digital and print media.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, After Effects).
• Experience creating content for social media and performance marketing channels.
• Strong understanding of typography, layout, colour, art direction, and visual storytelling.
• Proven ability to manage end-to-end creative projects using project management tools, with strong organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable

• Photography and videography experience.
• Motion graphics and animation capabilities.
• Experience using Figma or similar collaborative design tools.
• Knowledge of AI-enhanced creative workflows and content creation tools.
• Experience working within a franchise or multi-location retail environment.
• What Success Looks Like
• Delivers standout creative work that strengthens brand perception, engagement & performance.
• Produces high-quality assets efficiently and consistently.
• Collaborates effectively across functions and external partners.
• Owns creative projects end to end, keeping multiple stakeholders aligned and on schedule.
• Presents creative work with confidence and clarity
• Actively contributes ideas that elevate campaigns and customer experiences.
• Helps build a best-in-class creative culture within the marketing team.
• Personal Attributes
• Creative, curious, and visually obsessed.
• Collaborative and positive team player.
• Commercially aware and consumer-focused.
• Proactive, organised, and solutions-oriented, with strong project management instincts
• A confident, polished communicator comfortable presenting to senior leadership
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile marketing environment.