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Central to our product and range development process, our Art Directors are the lynch pin between Creative, Product & Ranging and Commercial functions.
Reporting into the Head of Creative, you’ll support the development and implementation of customer-specific creative and commercial visions.

Working as part of a cross-functional, customer-focused team, you will identify creative trends & market gaps and taking your knowledge of design, product development and shopper insights, you’ll establish, articulate and champion customer & consumer needs to create compelling creative strategies and product solutions. Your role is to ensure the product ranges, concepts and formats hit the shelves exceeding expectations in all areas; design aesthetic, cost of product, sustainability, market appetite and sale-ability to name a few.

A varied role, you’ll flex both your creative and commercial skills, bringing to life strategy and creative vision in a way that ultimately speaks to our varied consumer base, on a personal level, helping everyone lead emotionally connected lives.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Lead creatively in the product and range development process, ensuring the creative vision is fulfilled and championed from concept to delivery
• Interpret the customer strategy, overlay insights and define the creative direction
• Translating consumer, retailer and shopper insights & trends information into market leading product solutions and concepts
• You will play a part in determining how this shows up in store – balancing the creative with the commercials, including cost of goods and consumer appetite
• Leading the design team through inspirational, articulate briefing and art direction, ensuring a successful understanding and execution of strategies to produce market-leading product.
• A cross functional leader, you’ll be the design influencer internally and with the Customer, leading effective ways of working and strong relationships, keeping the creative vision alive
• Exemplary end to end understanding to support best practice ways of working, build efficiencies and continuous improvement in order to improve the product or work process

Whilst design, trend and insights will be the central to your success, you’ll enjoy a varied role equally leveraging your leadership and commercial understanding too. To be successful in this role we’re looking for you to demonstrate:

• Previous experience of working in a similar role, in a creative led environment. FMCG environment beneficial, but not essential.
• Previous experience of developing ranges of products, such as textiles, apparel, homewares, greetings etc
• A solid commercial understanding, seamlessly factoring this into the way you influence others, pitch ideas and lead your team. The ability to commercialise ideation and drive profitability
• A solid understanding of design, product development and visual merchandising process
• You’re skilled at bringing the right product to market, in the right way, at the right time with impact and authority
• Your commitment to engaging in and encouraging a culture of feedback, discussion and collaboration to enable highly productive, flexible and resilient ways of working from ideation through to final sku approval
• A skilled leader of people, ideally with previous experience on performance management with direct and indirect teams
• Experience of building global relationships to utilise resource and shared learnings, would be a significant advantage.

Based at our Dawson Lane site in Bradford, close to key motorway links you’ll be able to take advantage of:

• Competitive salary
• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Annual bonus scheme
• Health cashback scheme
• Pension benefit
• Flexible working opportunities including hybrid working
• Free onsite parking for when you are in the office
• A variety of other cultural and lifestyle benefits, aimed at promoting a positive work/life balance

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• Experience is welcome but there is no substitute for the right attitude, a caring nature and a sense4 of humour. Experience in managing, supervising or team coordination in the care sector
• A strong knowledge of the Care Inspectorate and CQC regulations
• Compassionate and confident Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Confident, articulate, and professional
• Keenness to learn in a fast-paced environment and creatively solve problems
• Desire to always embrace our values and vision
• Ability to organise

• Annualised Hours, guaranteed monthly salary for full and part-time roles regardless of shift patterns, plus overtime opportunities
• Flexible working hours for work life balance
• Immediate interview and quick start date (subject to pre-employment checks)
• 33 days Annual Leave including bank Holidays (pro Rata)
• Employee support line to support you and your family
• Free nationally accredited training, and the opportunity to earn a qualification and progress your career
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Free enhanced DBS check
• Refer a friend and earn up to £300
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Well-being initiatives
• Access to Thousands of Retail Discounts including discounted Health Cash Plan
• An Employee Council that represents the views of staff about matters relating to work

This is a new and exciting role that sits within the recently established Good Growth Coordination Team. Our work across Good Growth covers Economic Development, Transport, Culture and Creative Industries, Regeneration, Planning and the Environment… to name but a few.

You will play a crucial role in helping the GLA’s biggest directorate to achieve its strategic objectives, by establishing a strong inclusive culture where people can perform at their best and continuously develop, innovate and use their strengths to deliver better outcomes for Londoners. You will also help foster a culture that reinforces inclusivity, trust, respect, creativity, collaboration and openness across the directorate.

The role is focused on the people side of change management and supporting the implementation of new ways of working, particularly in response to wider corporate change programmes. You will provide proactive and effective support to the directorate leadership team with regard to change activity, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), and embedding a robust culture which attracts and retains the best talent.

We recognise that we have a lot of work to do to make sure that we achieve our ambitious goals relating to equality, diversity, and inclusion. You’ll play a key role in coordinating our crucial work to achieve our EDI goals and making sure these are seamlessly embedded into people’s day-to-day activities and aligned with the wider organisation’s EDI strategy and goals.

This role will be based at London Fire Brigade’s Head Office (Union Street SE1 0LL). GLA staff are hybrid working up to 3 days a week in our offices and remotely depending on their role. As part of this, you will need to split your time between home working and coming into the office.

London’s diversity is its biggest asset and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London’s diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For more information on the GLA’s approach to Diversity and Inclusion, please see Diversity and our values | London City Hall

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share. In addition to a good salary package, we offer an attractive range of benefits including 30 days’ annual leave, interest free season ticket loan, interest free bicycle loan and a career average pension scheme.

If you have a question about the role, please contact [email protected] or a question about the application process, please email [email protected] quoting reference GLA5121.