Hybrid Brand & Creative Lead — Hands-On Design & Strategy

Not Just Travel; Christchurch; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Not Just Travel is seeking a Brand & Creative Manager to lead a small in-house team, champion brand consistency and personally craft high-quality campaign and sales materials.

The role blends hands-on design with creative leadership, managing delivery across digital, print, events, and websites while mentoring two reports. Hybrid work in Christchurch, Dorset, offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Qualifications

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

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 finish.
• Review creative work and provide constructive feedback to meet audience and commercial needs.
• Oversee branding for events, new websites and high-impact applications.
• Lead and develop the Senior Creative Executive and Creative Executive.
• Manage briefs, workflows, priorities and production schedules.

Skills

Brand leadership

Hands-on design

Team leadership

Campaign design

Brand governance

Stakeholder communication

Creative feedback

Template design

Self-service brand platforms

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

Job description

Not Just Travel is seeking a Brand & Creative Manager to lead a small in-house team, champion brand consistency and personally craft high-quality campaign and sales materials.

The role blends hands-on design with creative leadership, managing delivery across digital, print, events, and websites while mentoring two reports. Hybrid work in Christchurch, Dorset, offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits.