Head of Creative — Beauty Brand (Hybrid)

Golden Fox Recruitment; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

Golden Fox Recruitment is partnering with a fast-growing, digitally led beauty brand to appoint a Head of Creative in Manchester. This senior role combines strategic leadership with hands-on creative work across video production, motion, and design.

You will lead an in-house team of 5+ creatives, shape 360° brand visuals, campaigns, product launches, and collaborations, and work closely with the CEO and Digital Director. The role is hybrid with three days in the office.

Qualifications

• 9+ years' experience across creative, design, art direction and/or video production.
• At least 5 years operating in a comparable senior creative leadership role.
• Current responsibility for managing a creative team.
• Strong hands-on video editing capabilities.
• Strong track record within beauty, cosmetics, skincare or premium/luxury DTC fashion.
• Significant experience developing and delivering creative strategy within a fast-paced consumer brand.
• Advanced capability across Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Figma.
• Experience producing creative specifically for paid social and performance marketing.

Responsibilities

• Leading the overall creative and visual strategy across the brand.
• Owning and protecting the 360° visual identity across digital, social, packaging, typography, graphic design and motion.
• Leading the creative direction and execution of major campaigns, product launches, seasonal moments and collaborations.
• Managing, mentoring and developing an established in-house creative team of 5+.
• Remaining genuinely hands-on with video, including editing social and performance assets.
• Creating and developing motion graphics, animated hooks, text overlays and social-first creative.
• Developing the team's technical capabilities across editing, colour grading, pacing, design and content production.
• Introducing effective resource planning and project management processes across the creative studio.
• Managing external agencies, freelancers, directors, retouches and specialist production partners.
• Working closely with Performance and Growth Marketing teams to develop a structured creative testing strategy.
• Using performance data including CTR, conversion and engagement metrics to continuously improve creative output.

Skills

Video editing

Creative leadership

Brand strategy

Mentoring/people management

Paid social creative

Performance marketing

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Figma

Job description

Golden Fox Recruitment is partnering with a fast-growing, digitally led beauty brand to appoint a Head of Creative in Manchester. This senior role combines strategic leadership with hands-on creative work across video production, motion, and design.

You will lead an in-house team of 5+ creatives, shape 360° brand visuals, campaigns, product launches, and collaborations, and work closely with the CEO and Digital Director. The role is hybrid with three days in the office.