Web Design Manager

Trafford Park

Salary - Competitive + Benefits

Permanent Role

About the Opportunity

At Studio, our purpose is to make more affordable and more possible for our customers, our Studio.co.uk website and app. offer our customers great value clothing and footwear, home and garden, sports and leisure, electricals, and gift items they need… and flexible ways to pay for them.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

Studio is part of Frasers Group, a collection of the world's most iconic brands that includes Sports Direct, House of Fraser, Frasers, FLANNELS, GAME, Jack Wills, Sofa.com, Evans Cycles, USC, and Everlast. Together, we are changing the face of retail and have significant growth plans to fulfil.

Whilst our customers are at the heart of everything we do, our colleagues are at the heart of everything we are. Colleagues enjoy a diverse and inclusive workplace which actively supports continuous learning and development, health and wellbeing, communication, and, of course, our local communities!

If you're #Amazing, #Savvy, #Inclusive, #Trusted and Customer-Focussed, we'd like to hear from you - there's room for you in #OurStudio.

As we evolve our structure to better serve our customers, we are looking to recruit an experienced Web design Manager to lead and direct the content design team to create & produce market leading visual communication outputs ready for use across multi-channel executions.

As a Web Design Manager at Studio, you will be:

• Leading, managing, and developing the performance and potential of the team
• Producing industry leading creative concepts & content design across all formats, channels and calendars with a strong digital bias
• Delivering brand aligned creative design toolkits with a digital first mindset
• Partnering with internal stakeholders to understand campaign / content objectives, timings, deliverables, and formats to ensure effective onward briefing
• Identifying, building, and maintaining positive internal and external stakeholder relationships

Who are we looking for?

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious individual, keen to join a business going through significant transformation. The ideal candidate will have:

Personal Attributes

• Artistic & innovative
• Creative mind and thinker
• Meticulous and demanding
• Flexible and calm
• Genuinely interested and curious of new technologies and digital media
• Has a personable approach and is able to build relationships easily
• Ability to work and deliver in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work under pressure and self-motivated and able to work as part of a team
• Eye for detail & Inquisitive nature

Skills

• Excellent leadership and management skills and proven track record in developing and engaging people
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and engagement skills
• Ability to plan and prioritise effectively to meet changing priorities and demands
• Commercially savvy and performance driven
• Ability to engage, challenge and influence stakeholders and Executives
• Strong ability to plan and prioritise and manage time effectively to meet changing priorities and demands
• Problem solving
• IT literate in Microsoft and leading design software

Experience

• Extensive experience in multi-channel, digital first design
• Strong level of creative concept development experience
• Proven track record in designing and delivering first class creative solutions
• Working for a digital retailer
• Working in a multi-channel retail environment
• Leading and engaging a team to deliver marketing leading design
• Coaching team members to exceed their own expectations
• Driving and leading transformational change
• Effectively managing a range of tasks and priorities, simultaneously
• Designing and delivering to SLA's
• Budget management
• Mac Operator
• Managing multiple projects

Knowledge

• Market trends and competitor activity
• Extensive knowledge and experience in a creative and brand related role
• In-depth knowledge of graphic design software and budget management

Why Studio Retail Limited?

We have many experienced colleagues who'll tell you they love working at Studio because of the people and the opportunities to develop. It's a fast-paced environment and the offices have a friendly and informal feel to them, no suits required to do a great job here!

As part of the Frasers group, Studio has strong foundations and can offer a breadth of opportunity for continued development and career growth.

Our newly refurbished offices are based in the heart of Salford Quays with excellent public transport and motorway links, and we're easily commutable from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Preston and all point in between. Our offices work hybrid, with flexible start and finish times.

We offer a great benefits package including flexible working hours, generous holiday allowance, great pension options and a generous staff discount, we'd love to hear from you if you think we could be the right company for you.

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