Head of Design – Twickenham – £40k

Head of Design – Twickenham – £40k

Highly successful and dynamic Marketing Management Consultancy that offer strategic marketing, sales and communications consulting to the Property and Construction industry have a new opportunity for a Head of Design to join them based in Twickenham.

In this brand new role as the Head of Design, reporting directly to the Managing Director, you will head up the design element of the business with profit-centre responsibility. The design capability of this hugely successful organisation has run successfully to date through their expert supply chain, with whom they continue to have excellent relations, however, are now looking to broaden their offer enabling them to secure larger projects to deliver successfully, and also have someone responsible for driving this area of the business.

Duties:

• Hold full responsibility for the management of all design projects in terms of financial performance, profit, accountability, risk and legals.
• Managing and working with a super team of proactive, young, keen and intelligent people.
• Creating and developing e-mail marketing campaigns.
• Maintain and upkeep company website proactively suggesting improvements and ensuring regularised updates.
• Creating copy, marketing collateral and blogs.
• Reviewing and recommendations on SEO/SEM, marketing databases, email, social media and display advertising, PPC and other marketing channels.
• Responsible for building and maintaining social media presence.
• Measure and report all digital marketing campaigns, and access against goals regularly (weekly/monthly).
• Winning presentations and generating growth in this department.
• Supporting the Sales Team and MD with sourcing new business.

Experience required:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in Graphic Design, Digital design and web design.
• Hold a proven track record of success and clients who can be authenticated.
• Have extensive experience working within a graphic design or marketing communications agency in a management / senior management position.
• Up to date knowledge of all aspects of digital marketing and a hunger for new IT and digital developments/software.
• Experience of setting up and running an App.
• Impeccable spelling and grammar with an eye for detail.
• Exceptional IT skills.
• Confidence in both the writing of reports and proposals and the delivery of them in pitch scenarios.
• Expert in all aspects of Social Media – in particular, Linked In, Facebook, HubSpot/Hootsuite, and possibly Pinterest/What’s App/Instagram.
• Able to report on analytics in a non-jargon way to clients and within the team.
• Have an understanding of targets, and why they need to be achieved for growth.

The successful candidate must be able to manage the existing supply chain, broaden this to find others where required/if required, and potentially grow their own design team working closely with the Managing Director. Additionally, they must be dynamic, focused, hard-working, client-focused and ‘puts the customer first’, with excellent attention to detail and be extremely competent. We are interested in speaking to candidates with a good track record and CV, that are highly personable and able to win business and manage clients’ expectations. This role will involve substantial client interface, client management and client presentations often in the London area or other parts of the UK, therefore, you will be required to travel.

Hours: Monday – Friday – 9am – 6pm

Salary : Circa £40,000 depending on experience

We do try to get back to as many applicants as possible, however some roles are in very high demand, and we will always carefully select and shortlist the resumes that are most aligned to our clients requirements; so if you have not heard back from us within 2 weeks, then please assume that your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion.

Salary: £35000 - £45000 Per Annum