Senior Creative Designer

This role is based in Northeast England, working within the creative and marketing team for an trusted industry-leading wholesaler who have a strong heritage. They are seeking a conceptually-led Senior Creative Designer with a deep understanding of graphic design and storytelling. You will be overseeing a small, talented design team, working alongside their Head of Brand and Creative, working together to help set their creative direction as well as hands on delivering impactful creative work across print and branding, events, digital, video and motion - shaping their creative direction and elevating their brand storytelling. As a senior leader within the creative team, you will balance hands-on creative execution with team mentorship, stakeholder engagement, and process optimisation. This role is a permanent, full-time, hybrid role, on-site in Durham (North East England) 4 x days, remote 1 x day. They offer a great range of benefits that include free parking, free gym membership and free breakfasts each morning.

The Company

Our client stands as the UK’s leader in the trade wholesale space, with sites in the US and EMEA. During a continued period of growth, they are heavily investing in their marketing, with some big projects to get stuck into. They have physical stores across the UK and a strong online presence and are a trusted heritage brand.

You will be part of the growing creative team and be instrumental in elevating their design offering across both traditional and digital media. They offer a state-of-the-art workplace with incredible facilities along with a collaborative and friendly team, and the opportunity to learn and develop in your role.

The Role

This role will lead the development of high-impact creative, including video and animation-led campaigns across marketing channels while shaping creative direction and elevating brand storytelling. You will oversee concept development through to execution, ensuring work is strategically aligned, performance-driven, and delivered to an exceptional standard.

As a senior leader within the creative team, you will balance hands-on creative execution with team mentorship, stakeholder engagement, and process optimisation.

You will be a Senior Creative Designer with strong conceptual skills as well as hands on design skills and ideally experience in ideation across both print and digital and also managing a small team of creatives.

Working closely with the Head of Brand and Creative, you will work with them to help set the creative direction across all of their creative work, from campaigns, to events, print and digital/social - then allocating work to the creative team to help you deliver the creative output to a high standard.

You will work from concept to delivery and with a wide array of projects, from large projects to fast turnaround smaller projects, working to produce a high quality of creative output across the board.

The work is fast paced and varied due to them having physical stores and a strong digital presence.

Being one of the senior leads, you will be working with stakeholders of all levels, from C-suite employees to branch staff, being solution driven and enjoying collaborating with different teams as well as thinking strategically and able to confidently present creative work in meetings.

About You

• You have a passion for all things design, strong ideation skills and a good understanding and experience of digital and a portfolio that showcases your creative work
• A design qualification and 5+ years of relevant design/Art direction in a role that has included team management and a strong emphasis on digital or multimedia
• You are a natural storyteller and are able to develop a simple and compelling brand narrative which ties campaigns together
• Strong conceptual skills, Art Direction experience beneficial
• Experience of working within retail or e-commerce environment would be beneficial
• Good digital creative knowledge
• Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)
• Knowledge of After Effects and Premiere Pro – at the very least in directing others, but ideally some hands on experience
• Experience of ideation and creation across digital or multi-media campaigns, including video or motion
• You are confident in presenting creative work to stakeholders at all levels
• Social Media savvy - understanding of different social platforms from TikTok to Instagram and LinkedIn
• You have a strong strategic and operational mindset
• You have very good communication and interpersonal skills, with a positive attitude

This role is based in Durham, which is in East Yorkshire in the North East of England, before applying please ensure that you are able to commute to their offices 4 days per week.