Creative Team Leader

Salary: £55,000 per annum DOE, plus company benefits

Location: London, W1U 8EQ

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Shifts: 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 9am until 6pm with 1 hour unpaid break

Work model: Fully onsite

Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled, technology-enabled, business-critical support services. We are seeking a Creative Team Leader to manage our on-demand design centre, lead and mentor creative teams, deliver innovative solutions, and ensure high-quality design output.

Key Responsibilities

• Meeting clients to discuss the business objectives and requirements of the job.
• Producing best-in-class pitchbook design.
• Elevating current pitchbook designs.
• Interpreting the client's business needs and developing a concept to suit their purpose.
• Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts.
• Demonstrating illustrative skills with rough sketches.
• Project management, pre-empting issues, coordinating artwork, print and delivery, web-work.
• Design and art working from initial creative concepts through to final delivery.
• Presenting finalised ideas and concepts to clients.
• Liaise with external suppliers of services to ensure work meets exact requirements as specified.
• Guide and advise other team members in the design and use of template material, providing training where necessary.
• Follow clearly defined department workflow processes including quality control and pre-flight checking.
• Punctually complete time-sheets, work tickets and give an accurate reflection of time spent on all projects.
• Report on team KPI’s.
• Assist with hiring, onboarding, and training new hires.
• Supervise and manage the existing creative team.
• Other duties as assigned by the Account Director.

Qualifications

• Previous work experience in people management/team leader role.
• Formally design trained with a relevant qualification in graphic design.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of printing techniques and issues.
• Able to develop compelling concepts and offer innovative design solutions within tight corporate design guidelines.
• Experience of estimating, project management, print buying and scheduling.
• Creative flair and confidence to present and articulate ideas to clients and colleagues.
• Ability to balance work on several projects at a time.

Technical Skills

• Expert level PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
• Intermediate Flash, Adobe Premiere and Dreamweaver.
• Strong Acrobat skills including advanced functions.
• Pre-Press: highly experienced and expert at checking files before sending to printers, including complex cutter guides, measurements and colour set up.

Personal Attributes

• Calm and mature personality with ability to work on own initiative and in a team environment, often under pressure and to strict deadlines.
• Strong level of technical and creative design knowledge.
• Flexibility regarding working hours.
• Client focus – must demonstrate a client focused approach to providing a service through personal commitment to the client and their business.
• Good people skills and keep clients informed of progress and the processes involved.
• Excellent time management skills, ability to prioritise and delegate.

Rewards and Benefits

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro‑ratio for part‑time roles).
• Salary sacrifice schemes.
• Retail vouchers – including our TechScheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Dental Insurance.
• Health Assessments.
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
• Discounted gym memberships.
• Referral Scheme.

Equality and Diversity

The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other irrelevant factor. It will build a culture that values openness, fairness and transparency.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like to make a reasonable adjustment to enable you to make an interview please contact us at careersatWL@williamslea.com.