Marketing - Creative Lead - Christchurch, United Kingdom - Harbour House - Head Office

Description

We're looking for a full-time Creative Lead, starting as soon as possible, based at Harbour House, 60 Purewell, Christchurch, Dorset.

Responsible for driving the design and creative aspects of marketing and brand campaigns and projects, using in-house capabilities and resources as well as agency partners/creative freelancers.

It's essential that you have experience in creating bold and exciting concepts from briefs and can demonstrate the delivery of great creative outputs.

We are looking for someone who can really get to grips with how to engage an audience and articulate messages and stories through the Harbour brand voice.

You will be a brand ambassador, responsible for ensuring all design/creative outputs express the brand elements and include our brand identifiers.

Transforming a brief using some creative flair into ideas and concepts should come naturally to you.

You will need experience working closely with partner agencies and creative freelancers to create web, print and digital marketing assets for a wide range of brand and marketing campaigns.

You'll have some top tools at your disposal, including an Apple Mac equipped with the latest Adobe Creative Cloud software.

We are a small, friendly team of six people, including specialists in branding, design, digital marketing, social media and PR.

The department is busy, the role is diverse and the work is always varied. This is a new role for the department and will give you the opportunity to make it your own.


Your main responsibilities will include:

• Conceptualise, oversee, and execute creative ideas. Presenting creative campaigns to Head of Marketing and Digital Marketing Manager
• Oversee creation of artwork, graphics, animations, imagery and videos for promotional materials and marketing campaigns
• Working closely with the digital team and videographer, creation of videos, including coordinating and storyboarding
• Coordinate with digital team and photographers on campaign photoshoots
• Assist with the creation and reformatting of Harbour Hotels branded internal documents such as business cards, standards, templates, and exhibition stands etc.
• Support Head of Marketing with brand development projects
• Keep up to date on the latest creative/design trends and new technology platforms to further advance our creative output
• Work closely with the Head of Marketing and stakeholders on keeping brand guidelines up to date with the latest developments
• Work with print agency to keep Web to Print up to date with the latest marketing collateral for hotels to order from

Who are we?
Harbour Hotels is a growing, award-winning lifestyle hospitality brand in the south of England.

We're bold, youthful and exuberant and we're not afraid to try new things and swim against the tide - and our marketing campaigns reflect this.

Our portfolio spans sensational coastal, country and city locations with a variety of exciting restaurant concepts and our HarSPA brand.

In recent years, Harbour Hotels was named AA Hotel Group of the Year, making it an exceptionally exciting time to join our ever-growing hotel brand.

What's in it for you?

• Excellent hotel stay and food and beverage discounts across the Harbour Hotels Group
• Progression opportunities within the Harbour Hotels Group
• A supportive environment for training and development of your career, including budget for external training and qualifications
• Employee Wellbeing Programme including Group Life Cover, 24/7 online GP services and mental health check

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