Brand & Creative Lead: Design, Strategy & Growth

RR; Hurn; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Not Just Travel is seeking a Brand & Creative Manager to lead a small in-house creative team while personally delivering key design work. This hands-on leadership role will set direction, uphold brand consistency across campaigns, events and digital channels, and empower Travel Consultants with practical design resources.

You will balance creative excellence with commercial priorities, manage briefs and production schedules, and guide the team to deliver high-impact, on-brand content for

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading brand and creative delivery while remaining a hands-on designer.
• Strong portfolio of brand systems and multichannel campaigns across digital and print.
• Advanced graphic design skills with typography, layout, imagery and accessible design.
• Experience taking creative projects from concept through to final artwork and production.
• Strong brand governance, quality control and approval experience.
• Experience managing designers, suppliers, workflows and competing briefs.
• Confidence presenting creative ideas, training others and providing feedback.
• Ability to balance creative ambition with commercial priorities, deadlines and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Own brand standards, guidelines, approvals and consistency across HQ and the Travel Consultant network.
• Set creative direction and quality standards across digital, print, campaigns and events.
• Personally design and produce high-quality campaign, brand and sales-enablement materials, from concept to finished artwork.
• Review creative work, provide constructive feedback and ensure outputs meet commercial and audience needs.
• Oversee branding for events, new websites and other high-impact applications.
• Lead and develop the Senior Creative Executive and Creative Executive.
• Manage briefs, workflow, priorities and production schedules.
• Decide what should be produced internally, outsourced or self-service in partnership with Marketing Operations.
• Manage creative agencies, freelancers, photographers, videographers and production suppliers.
• Maintain photography and video libraries, including asset permissions and accessibility.
• Monitor creative capacity, delivery quality and opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Deliver brand and creative training to colleagues and Travel Consultants.

Skills

Brand leadership

Hands-on design

Graphic design

Typography & layout

Brand governance

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Presentation & training

Job description

Not Just Travel is seeking a Brand & Creative Manager to lead a small in-house creative team while personally delivering key design work. This hands-on leadership role will set direction, uphold brand consistency across campaigns, events and digital channels, and empower Travel Consultants with practical design resources.

You will balance creative excellence with commercial priorities, manage briefs and production schedules, and guide the team to deliver high-impact, on-brand content for