Creative Design Manager | alfanar Electric

alfanar; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

alfanar is seeking a seasoned Creative Leader to drive unified creative direction across campaigns and marketing initiatives. You will ensure brand consistency, oversee design, video, and visual content, and align outputs with business objectives while mentoring a team of designers and photographers.

The role requires translating briefs into actionable directions, reviewing concepts for relevance and impact, managing end-to-end delivery, and maintaining brand guidelines across channels and

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Markting & Communication or Any relevant field
• Work Experience 6 to 10 Years
• Technical / Functional Competencies Advertising Design Design Tools Design Specifications Creativity Oral/Written Communications

Responsibilities

• Lead creative direction across campaigns and key initiatives
• Translate business and marketing briefs into clear and actionable creative directions
• Review and challenge creative concepts to ensure relevance, clarity, and impact
• Ensure alignment of outputs with marketing objectives and target audience needs
• Manage end-to-end creative workflow from brief to final delivery
• Maintain consistency of visual identity across channels, materials, and markets
• Supervise designers, media team, and photographers and provide constructive feedback

Job description

Responsible for managing creative design activities, including leading creative direction, ensuring brand consistency, and overseeing delivery of high-quality visual content across campaigns and marketing initiatives in alignment with business objectives.

Key Accountability Areas

Job Purpose

Responsible for managing creative design activities, including leading creative direction, ensuring brand consistency, and overseeing delivery of high-quality visual content across campaigns and marketing initiatives in alignment with business objectives.

Creative Leadership & Direction

• Manage creative direction across campaigns and key initiatives
• Translate business and marketing briefs into clear and actionable creative directions
• Review and challenge creative concepts to ensure relevance, clarity, and impact
• Ensure alignment of creative outputs with marketing objectives and target audience needs

Brand & Visual Identity Governance

• Ensure all creative outputs comply with brand guidelines and visual standards
• Maintain consistency of visual identity across channels, materials, and markets
• Support development and refinement of brand guidelines when required

Creative Operations & Delivery

• Manage end-to-end creative workflow from brief to final delivery
• Ensure timely delivery of outputs at the required quality standards
• Prioritize and allocate work based on business needs and deadlines
• Maintain visibility on workload and output across the team

Content & Visual Development

• Oversee development of design, video, and visual content across platforms
• Ensure consistency in visual style, messaging, and execution across all outputs
• Support development of campaign assets, product visuals, and marketing materials

Team Management

• Manage and guide designers, media team, and photographers
• Review outputs and provide clear and constructive feedback to maintain quality standards

HR Proficiency

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality

• Quality is considered as alfanar's prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor Degree in Markting & Communication or Any relevant field
• Work Experience 6 to 10 Years
• Technical / Functional Competencies Advertising Design Design Tools Design Specifications Creativity Oral/Written Communications

Profile description

Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions.

The hub of alfanar's manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh. The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals.

alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset. With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar.

For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com