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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p><b>An experienced<i> Creative Services Manager / Art Director</i> is required at this well known independent studio to oversee the development of global and regional product style guides for a key kids’ brand.</b> </p>
<p><b>The COMPANY</b></p>
<p>Our client is a global independent studio that specialises in the development, acquisition, production, financing, distribution and sales of entertainment content.</p>
<p><b>The ROLE</b></p>
<p>You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of all projects that are delivered to support a key preschool brand working with internal designers and external vendors.</p>
<p>You will offer strong art direction on the work they produce, helping to drive through the creative within each project, ensuring it meets the need of each brief.</p>
<p><i>Key Responsibilities - </i> </p>
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<li>Be responsible for delivering all assets, toolkits and guides</li>
<li>Ensure the creative direction is implemented within all the creative produced, that ties in with both the core DNA of the brand and the brand strategy</li>
<li>Partner with the global brand team to get their input on all assets that are created</li>
<li>Partner with the production team to be across all assets in development for the brand</li>
<li>Partner with the Consumer Products and Toy creative teams, to ensure they have visibility of the creative your team is producing</li>
<li>Responsible for the delivery of all character art created, from writing the brief through to ensure the colour palette is accurate and all files are QC’d</li>
<li>Manage the process of delivering all assets that go within the Asset Toolkits, ensuring that key partners are kept up to date in any changes to the schedule</li>
<li>Oversee the creation of all seasonal marketing material, with a strong awareness of how the regional marketing teams will utilise the brand across campaigns throughout the year.ng teams, regional campaigns and partnerships, to ensure assets are created to support their needs</li>
<li>Line manage designers within the team, offering creative</li>
<li>Working with the Director to develop strong concepts and mood boards, setting the direction of each brief.</li>
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<p><strong>THE PERSON</strong></p>
<p>With proven experience giving art direction to either in-house team or to external vendors, you will have strong project management experience, from briefing through to scheduling, managing the feedback from key stakeholders at all stages of the process.</p>
<p>An ability to visualise your ideas as part of the briefing process is vital - capturing the requirements, through mood boards, sketches or initial concepts, that ‘sell’ your vision to the designer(s) working on the project. Good technical design skills across the Adobe full CC suite are essential.</p>
<p>Proven experience within the children’s entertainment industry is important, as is a full understanding of how creative assets are used across all touch points where the brand has visibility.</p>
<p>You should have great organisational qualities and the ability to multi-task and react to the high volume and demands of the role.</p>
<p><b>WHAT TO EXPECT</b></p>
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<li>Searchlight only advertises <i>active</i> roles</li>
<li>Your details will be sent directly to the Consultant who is handling this role</li>
<li>We aim to respond to candidates within 14 days.</li>
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<p><b><i>Searchlight strives to promote equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.</i></b></p>