Brand & Creative Manager – Hands-On Leadership. Travel.

Overview

In this hands-on leadership role you will own and evolve the Not Just Travel brand, guiding a small in-house creative team while personally delivering key design work. You’ll set brand standards and ensure consistent, engaging expression across HQ and the Travel Consultants network. You’ll develop templates and training to empower others to create on-brand content at scale. The position blends strategic brand governance with practical production to support campaigns, events and digital channels. Join to shape the brand experience and drive commercially effective creative across touchpoints.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary DOE
• Excellent benefits

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 final artwork.
• Review creative work, provide constructive feedback and ensure outputs meet commercial and audience needs.
• Oversee branding for events, new websites and other high-impact applications.
• Lead and develop the Senior Creative Executive and Creative Executive.
• Manage creative briefs, workflow, priorities and production schedules.
• Collaborate with Marketing Operations to decide what should be produced internally, outsourced or self-service.
• Manage creative agencies, freelancers, photographers, videographers and production suppliers.
• Maintain photography and video libraries, asset permissions, usage rights and accessibility.
• Monitor creative capacity, delivery quality and opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Take ownership of Design Hub and Marketplace templates, brand assets and self-service resources.
• Deliver brand and creative training to colleagues and Travel Consultants to represent Not Just Travel across their channels.

Key requirements

• Proven experience leading brand and creative delivery while remaining hands-on as a designer.
• Strong portfolio including brand systems and multi-channel campaigns across digital and print.
• Advanced graphic design skills with typography, layout, imagery and accessible design understanding.
• Experience taking projects from concept through to final artwork and production.
• Brand governance, quality control and approvals experience.
• Experience managing designers, suppliers, workflows and competing briefs.
• Confidence presenting ideas, training others and giving constructive feedback.
• Ability to balance creative ambition with commercial priorities, deadlines and business needs.
• Experience developing reusable design templates, resource libraries or self-service brand platforms (valued).

• leadership
• communication
• collaboration
• brand governance
• brand standards
• typography

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