Creative Director

🔥 55 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍🎨 Art Director

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DS Smith

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1940

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Food & Beverage • Logistics • Consulting

DS Smith is a provider of sustainable packaging solutions, paper products, and recycling services. The company focuses on innovation in packaging to support a circular economy, aiming to use recyclable materials and reduce plastic waste. DS Smith operates internationally, offering packaging for various industries, including consumer goods, industrial solutions, and retail. It emphasizes environmental sustainability and community engagement through strategic initiatives and partnerships. Additionally, DS Smith provides end-to-end retail services and advanced packaging systems.

📋 Description

• Set the creative vision and standards across global POS and retail marketing programmes • Translate consumer behaviour, category dynamics and retail insights into clear creative strategies with measurable impact • Challenge briefs to uncover underlying audience needs and conversion opportunities • Champion design excellence, innovation and continuous improvement across the creative function • Lead creative development across POS, retail activation, merchandising and branded environments • Balance customer engagement, brand objectives, sustainability, manufacturability and commercial performance • Act as a trusted strategic advisor to global brand, marketing and senior client stakeholders • Present and defend creative recommendations through compelling storytelling and strategic rationale • Build, mentor and inspire high-performing multidisciplinary creative teams • Define the long-term vision, capability roadmap and operating model for the Central Design Studio • Drive adoption of AI, automation and emerging creative technologies • Establish performance measures across delivery excellence, talent development, utilisation and client satisfaction • Contribute to pitch responses and articulate the company value proposition and broader strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Highly experienced in senior creative leadership roles within retail marketing, retail design, brand activation or POS environments • Deep expertise in consumer strategy and behaviour, path-to-purchase and retail environments • Experience developing POS and retail activation solutions for major FMCG or consumer brands across global or multi-market programmes • Strong portfolio showcasing strategic thinking, creative leadership and design excellence • Proven success leading and developing multidisciplinary creative teams • Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence and challenge senior client stakeholders • Commercial understanding of retail production, implementation and activation • Knowledge of sustainability, emerging retail technologies and AI-enabled creative development • Experience working across multicultural teams and international markets

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the future of global retail marketing and design • Diverse, motivated and engaged workforce • Culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed