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

Overview

In this hands-on leadership role, you drive brand expression across HQ and a Travel Consultant network, balancing creative quality with practical delivery. You lead a small in-house team, set standards, and personally design high-impact materials. You’ll develop tools and training to empower others to produce on-brand content. This is a chance to shape a travel brand’s creative identity while delivering tangible business outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary DOE
• Excellent benefits
• Hybrid working
• Full-time | permanent
• On-site in Christchurch, Dorset (3 days onsite)

Responsibilities

• Own brand standards and ensure consistency across HQ and the Travel Consultant network
• Set creative direction and quality standards for digital, print, campaigns and events
• Personally design and produce campaign, brand, and sales-enablement materials from concept to finish
• Provide constructive feedback on creative work and ensure alignment with commercial/audience needs
• Oversee branding for events, websites, and other high-impact applications
• Lead and develop the Senior Creative Executive and Creative Executive
• Manage briefs, workflow, priorities, and production schedules
• Decide what to produce internally vs. outsource or self-serve with Marketing Operations
• Manage external agencies, freelancers, photographers, videographers, and suppliers
• Maintain photography/video libraries, permissions, and accessibility
• Monitor capacity, output quality, and opportunities to improve efficiency
• Oversee Design Hub and Marketplace resources for templates and self-service assets
• Deliver brand and creative training to colleagues and Travel Consultants

Key requirements

• Proven experience leading brand and creative delivery while remaining hands-on
• Strong portfolio including 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 to final artwork and production
• Brand governance, quality control, and approval experience
• Experience managing designers, suppliers, workflows and multiple briefs
• Confident 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 (beneficial)

• leadership
• communication
• mentoring
• brand governance
• creative direction
• multichannel campaign design

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