Head of Creative Development, B-Hive

BOOTS; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading beauty company in the UK seeks a Creative Strategy Lead. In this pivotal role, you'll oversee the creative process, manage agency outputs, and inspire creative teams. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in creative development and agency management, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines while driving innovative campaigns. This position offers flexible working options and an inclusive company culture.

Benefits

Retirement Savings Plan

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Generous discount on our own brands

Flexible benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in creative development across all stages.
• Proven skill in shaping powerful, story-led creative ideas.
• Strong experience of agency management with focus on coaching.

Responsibilities

• Craft concise, inspiring, and results-driven creative briefs.
• Lead the development of powerful, idea-led creative concepts.
• Safeguard brand integrity with all creative work.

Skills

Creative strategy development

Multi-channel execution

Agency management

Communication and feedback

Leadership and collaboration

Financial acumen

Job description

Location: Nottingham or London

Recruitment Partner: Frankie McCallister-Lyas

Contract: Maternity Cover

Overview

The Creative, Agency Partnership & B-Hive enable our ambitious brand growth goals through a more agile and technology-enabled operating approach. As a Centre of Excellence, we are responsible for creative generation across the agency network, including management of the full agency network (incl. OLIVER, WPP & B-Hive). This CoE aligns all of our creative skills, resources and operating model with the needs of the Brand Growth Framework at the very heart, enabling our ambitious brand growth goals through a more agile and technology-enabled operating approach. Reporting to the Creative, Agency Partnerships & B-Hive Director, this is a pivotal role in our Creative CoE. You'll lead and inspire our creative teams (all agency partners) in delivering high-impact, well-ideated campaigns & initiatives. A natural creative with a great instinct for powerful creative and big bold ideas. A strategic thinker with deep expertise across the entire creative lifecycle, you will be leading the process from brief development to execution, focusing on elevating our brands creative output while maintaining strong alignment with brand guardrails, strategy, BVI and luxury benchmarks. A confident leader, exceptional communicator, and skilled collaborator.

Key Responsibilities

• Creative Strategy & Brief Development – Craft concise, inspiring, and results-driven creative briefs that spark innovative, brand-aligned ideas. Evaluate big ideas, strengthen creative, provide clear feedback and approve direction / execution.
• Creative Development – Lead the development of powerful, idea-led creative concepts and guide the translation of those ideas into multi-channel initiatives through our agency network. Give clear feedback and direction, approve good work that maintains the integrity of brilliant ideas.
• Creative Process Design & Implementation – Define, implement, and manage a new creative development process that fosters more effective, collaborative, and efficient ways of working across teams and stakeholders.
• Agency Management – Manage our agency creative development output with a focus on accountability, quality, and collaboration; provide clear, actionable creative critique to continuously improve output.
• Brand Stewardship – Safeguard brand integrity by ensuring all creative work aligns with brand guidelines, tone, creative principles, luxury benchmarking and business objectives.
• Team Leadership & Collaboration – Inspire and mentor internal & external creative teams, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement.

What you'll need to have

• Deep expertise in creative development across all stages, from brief writing to concept creation and multi-channel execution.
• Ability to craft concise, inspiring, and results-driven creative briefs that drive meaningful, brand-aligned work.
• Proven skill in shaping powerful, story-led creative ideas that resonate across digital, social, video, and print channels.
• Strong experience of agency management, with a focus on coaching others whilst accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Confident and clear communicator who provides actionable feedback to elevate creative quality while staying within brand guidelines.
• Outstanding leader that role models collaboration & drives accountability; has the ability to challenge effectively and motivate others.
• Financial acumen in managing creative budgets to deliver high-impact work on time and at the best value.

About No7 Beauty Company

No7 Beauty Company is made up of five iconic brands - No7, Liz Earle, Soap & Glory, Botanics and Sleek MakeUP. We believe in creating the best in beauty for everyone - we're innovators with a passion for challenging perceptions with ground-breaking products, proven results and positive impact. We have built a reputation on scientific innovation, whilst being environmentally sustainable and socially responsible.

We are an equal opportunity employer, empowering our team members to be their authentic selves as we share a culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are at the centre of everything we do.

Our benefits

• Retirement Savings Plan
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous discount on our own brands and partner businesses
• Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.

What's next

If your application is successful, our in-house recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer any initial questions you have. If you have not been successful on this occasion, you'll be notified by email. We are open to discussing part‑time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.