Head of Creative & Visuals

Buro Happold; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection

10% Car allowance

25 days holiday

Generous pension

Flexible benefits

Wellbeing programme

Professional memberships

Job summary

Buro Happold in Bath or London seeks an experienced Head of Creative & Visuals to lead our global creative function, elevating the brand’s storytelling across campaigns, publications and digital media.

You will report to the Chief Marketing & Brand Officer, shape visual strategy, mentor a high-performing team, and collaborate with thought leadership to translate research into compelling visuals for diverse markets worldwide.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a senior creative, design or brand leadership role.
• Proven success leading multidisciplinary creative teams.
• Strong portfolio showcasing brand development, storytelling and creative excellence.
• Experience translating strategic objectives into compelling creative campaigns.
• Demonstrated expertise in data visualisation and visual storytelling.
• Experience delivering thought leadership and content-rich publications.
• Understanding of website UX and UI design principles.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Strong project planning, prioritisation and delivery capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative direction for major global marketing campaigns.
• Develop engaging concepts and storytelling across digital, print, video and experiential channels.
• Champion creative excellence, innovation and best practice throughout the business.
• Own and evolve Buro Happold's visual identity and brand guidelines.
• Ensure a consistent, impactful and differentiated brand presence across markets and sectors.
• Act as the firm's senior creative authority, advising stakeholders and external partners on creative direction and brand expression.
• Collaborate with content and thought leadership teams to transform complex research and insight into visually compelling publications.
• Oversee the creation of reports, infographics, visual storytelling assets and data visualisations.
• Ensure content is accessible, engaging and aligned with our brand narrative.
• Lead, inspire and develop a high-performing global creative team.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Build strong relationships across the business to understand needs and deliver exceptional creative solutions.
• Identify emerging trends, technologies and opportunities within design, branding and storytelling.
• Drive continuous improvement in creative processes and outputs.
• Measure and evaluate creative effectiveness to strengthen brand impact and business outcomes.

Skills

Senior leadership

Brand leadership

Creative teams

Portfolio

Data visualisation

Visual storytelling

Publications

UX/UI

Stakeholder management

Project planning

Job description

We're looking for an experienced and inspiring Head of Creative & Visuals to lead our global creative function and elevate how our brand, expertise and stories are brought to life across every touchpoint. Reporting to our Chief Marketing & Brand Officer and forming part of the Marketing Leadership Team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the visual expression of the Buro Happold brand internationally. This is a unique opportunity for a strategic creative leader who combines commercial awareness, exceptional design judgement, and a passion for storytelling.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the creative direction for major global marketing campaigns.
• Develop engaging concepts and storytelling across digital, print, video and experiential channels.
• Champion creative excellence, innovation and best practice throughout the business.
• Own and evolve Buro Happold's visual identity and brand guidelines.
• Ensure a consistent, impactful and differentiated brand presence across markets and sectors.
• Act as the firm's senior creative authority, advising stakeholders and external partners on creative direction and brand expression.
• Collaborate with content and thought leadership teams to transform complex research and insight into visually compelling publications.
• Oversee the creation of reports, infographics, visual storytelling assets and data visualisations.
• Ensure content is accessible, engaging and aligned with our brand narrative.
• Lead, inspire and develop a high-performing global creative team.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Build strong relationships across the business to understand needs and deliver exceptional creative solutions.
• Identify emerging trends, technologies and opportunities within design, branding and storytelling.
• Drive continuous improvement in creative processes and outputs.
• Measure and evaluate creative effectiveness to strengthen brand impact and business outcomes.

You’ll be an accomplished creative leader with extensive experience building brands, leading teams and delivering impactful creative work in complex organisations.

Essential

• Significant experience in a senior creative, design or brand leadership role.
• Proven success leading multidisciplinary creative teams.
• Strong portfolio showcasing brand development, storytelling and creative excellence.
• Experience translating strategic objectives into compelling creative campaigns.
• Demonstrated expertise in data visualisation and visual storytelling.
• Experience delivering thought leadership and content-rich publications.
• Understanding of website UX and UI design principles.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Strong project planning, prioritisation and delivery capabilities.

Desirable

• Experience within engineering, architecture, consultancy or professional services environments.
• Knowledge of digital-first brand experiences, motion design and emerging creative technologies.
• Experience working with global audiences and international markets.

This person can be based in Bath or London on a hybrid working model.

Culture and values

At Buro Happold, we create solutions that have a positive impact on people, places and the planet. As a global consultancy of engineers, designers and advisers, we work on some of the world's most complex and influential projects. Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers. Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other's differences is key, we want employees to feel they don't have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions. At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You'll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.

Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• 10% Car allowance.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities. A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from the exceptional.