Creative Team Manager

As a key part of our Brand & Creative Team, you will take pride in leading, inspiring and supporting our talented in-house Creative Team and collaborating with our design agencies, to deliver creative excellence in line with our growing brand, vision and purpose. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of supporting stakeholders at all levels and business-wide, a passion for design, exceptional planning ability and strong leadership skills. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic team and make a significant impact on the successful future of our brands. This is a hybrid role, remote working, with a minimum monthly onsite presence in our central Leeds & Bradford offices as well as other times as required. You will be keen to play your part in fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in everything we do, as we are dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment where every team member feels valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work each day. This role reports to the Brand & Creative Team Lead Senior Manager. About the role As well as providing essential and extensive relationship management by working closely and cross functionally with internal teams/ agencies to develop and deliver cohesively branded communications, you will

• Be the lead expert voice of creative design within our business, bringing new thinking and ideas from the external environment into YBS - maintaining a strong up to date vision of design trends (print/ digital/ broadcast/ sonic)
• Be Brand Ambassador for YBS visual identity including imagery, graphics, styling, video, animation, sonic and tone of voice brand identity, ensuring that it is applied consistently across all the Group communications and evolved in line with business strategy
• Continually show drive and determination to deliver improved processes, efficient systems, team member capabilities and most effective use of resource and capacity
• Project manage and lead our creative team in ensuring that all work produced is on brand and on brief
• Lead brand execution by external agencies and manage internal vs external (agency) resources to ensure creative support for business needs
• Oversee the ongoing evolution and maintenance of brand guidelines, tools and assets for consistent brand articulation and delivery
• Lead ideation, provide inspirational art and creative direction to Creative Team, agency and business stakeholders
  
  Are you a creative guardian with excellent people leadership, proven project and organisational skills and superb at stakeholder management? Then you may be just who we re looking for as our next Creative Team Manager here at Yorkshire Building Society!, A proven track record in leading, coaching & motivating an in-house studio or creative agency team is critical for this role. You ll need excellent stakeholder management skills as a significant proportion of this role is collaborating within and beyond our department to ensure consistency and alignment of our brand look & feel you need to feel very comfortable with liaising with other teams, constructively challenging, influencing and supporting across all levels within the business. You ll have -
• The ability to plan, traffic and deliver multiple projects and articulate this via regular reporting and tracking with a commercial consideration for maximum time and budget benefit
• Strong creative skills and the ability to oversee translation of our brands character across projects
• Formal design training, with an understanding and passion across current and evolving design channels/ disciplines
• Experience of managing a design project from briefing through to development of concepts and production
• An excellent design sense and attention to detail, which is both creative and commercially aware
• Pro-active with ability to show initiative/ ideas to constantly improve YBS group and internal studio processes
  
  At YBS we don t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you ll be respected for who you are, you ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.
Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this. Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly. Inclusivity. We re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you ll go the extra mile to help our members, you ll fit right in and feel you belong here. About our Benefits We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:
• Holiday. You ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that s why we ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.