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The world is noisier than ever, with millions of brands competing for seconds of attention but how do we at Brand Addition stand out? We add heart and soul to goods and gifts that build brand love. We add purpose to products that spread more joy and less junk. We add emotion to everyday items that inspire connection. When you only have a second to make an impression adding what matters makes every moment count.
Brand Addition is a business that helps global brands build culture, awareness, and meaningful connections. We extend our client values in thoughtful, sustainable, globally conscious ways to create branded moments that people love. In an industry of excess – we will lead through sustainability to generate wellbeing for generations to come, what we do today can determine what kind of place that will be. We will continue to build amazing products while strengthening careers and client relationships. Here at Brand Addition, we work across oceans and continents to build a better, brighter future for our partners, our people, and our planet.
We’re expanding our world-class design team, and we’re looking for a Studio Lead – Design Manager to join us. We want you to help run our fantastic in-house creative studio. You will be managing a small (but growing) team of designers, delivering outstanding creative work across our clients, marketing, and internal comms channels. Our teams are exceptional and we are looking for passionate people to help us continue to lead in creative.
Based at our Head Office in Manchester you will be responsible for the daily operations of the Creative Design Team. You will be exceptionally organised and ‘hands on’ in your management of a talented Design Team to ensure projects, workloads are delivered on time.
Our Design Studio Manager will also be a Designer for new business, presentations and existing clients and an advocate for the team, giving them ample support to complete their assignments on time and aligned to our high standards. Overall, we hope this person will be passionate about driving us forward, helping to make our creative process to delivery as seamless as possible.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Working closely with Creative Director of Client Engagement to ensure the quality and integrity of work stays at a high level.
  • Managing and assigning tasks to the Design Team, ensuring all deadlines are met.
  • Discussing and delegating projects in conjunction with Creative Director of Client Engagement.
  • Highlighting challenges and potential solutions
  • Communicating and building relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external
  • Managing project expectations and turnaround times with internal stakeholders.
  • Managing our studio’s project range through integrated assets including print, product design, product visuals, digital, social, photography and presentations.
  • Growing and driving the efficiency of the department.


Requirements


Who we are looking for:
  • An empathetic communicator, providing clarity on what is required,
  • A great relationship builder with a positive and proactive approach.
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills.
  • A flexible and adaptable approach.
  • The ability to remain calm whilst working under pressure.

What you’ll need:
  • Experience in a similar or comparable role, ideally 2–5 years’ experience in Studio management.
  • Enjoy working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
  • Incredibly organised with the ability to manage workloads and overlapping deadlines.
  • Strong presentation, written and verbal and communication skills.
  • Expert Knowledge in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.
  • Presentation Design skills in PowerPoint.
  • Create conceptual ideas for possible ranges using existing product knowledge and thinking of new ideas using 3D software for visuals (C4D, Blender etc)
  • Editing Videos, Motion design, GIFs etc (Premier Pro & After Effects)


Knowledge & Experience

  • Take problems and generating ideas for improvements, resolving ambiguity, and comprehensively exploring options whilst championing an outcome driven approach
  • Work alongside the Creative Director of Client Engagement to help drive discussions from ideas among brand, growth, commercial and Product teams into product requirements
  • Generate insights and share learnings from both successes and failures
  • Been a designer for many years with a breadth of experience, deep knowledge, and expertise, particularly in brand and digital marketing
  • Proficiency in, and examples of, how you resolve difficult design challenges, as well as demonstrate ability in leadership, support, mentoring and working closely with other designers
  • Impeccable knowledge of design tools and workflows
  • Successful examples about how you have helped others to develop, both in their craft and soft skills.


Benefits


Our Culture:

Brand Addition offers you the opportunity to work in a responsible and challenging role within a dynamic, international, and ambitious environment. We’re informal but hard working and great teamwork and collaboration are key to our success. We are all proud to be part of the BA family; we all share the same passion and dedication to the company, we champion diversity and inclusion and respect difference, because it makes us stronger.
Our teams operate across oceans and collaborate across continents, leveraging diverse perspectives to create amazing things together. It may be fast paced but it’s a fun and friendly place to work. We have a big footprint globally but remain personal and transparent. You can expect quality, sustainability, and value to be at the heart of everything that we do. You’ll have the support of a close network of colleagues and managers, and every day is different here!

Reward and recognition:
We offer Global Development Opportunities – Hybrid Working – Flexible Working and a Subsidised Wellbeing Programme to name a few.

Position to thrive
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Whether you are early in your career or a seasoned professional, Brand Addition provides you with everything you need to excel in your job and for personal growth, to be the best version of you.
We are an equally opportunities employer and encourage flexible working through family friendly working hours.
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