Digital and Motion Design Manager

Are you a highly-skilled designer with expertise in creative best in class motion and social content and consider yourself a born leader with experience in managing designers and producers?

You will have the unique opportunity to manage our newly formed Design and Motion team, an integral part of Asda's in house studio and design team. This role will see you truly shaping the content that we as a business create. You will use your background in design and your expert skills to lead a team of creatives and producers to create content across our social and broadcast channels.

You will be part of a cross-functional team, working closely with the channel experts to develop creatively excellent content. You should be a natural leader with a wealth and experience to bring to the role. You'll have experience of working on multiple projects at any one time as well as managing the workload of your team. You will need to be agile and understand the shifting priorities of the retail sector.

Your Role

You will be managing a new arm of our inhouse design and studio team, particularly focus on motion design. Your leadership skills will help this team to become established with the business and industry as experts in their field. The team will be responsible for the creation of social and broadcast content, including but not limited to videography, photography, animation, and editing. You will manage a new team of creatives and producers and work closely alongside them to ensure creative is delivered on time, on brief and on budget. You will use your expert design eye to lead the team and not be afraid to get your hands dirty when needed.

You will work closely with stakeholders to interrogate briefs and work closely with our workflow manager to manage workloads and ensure creative is signed off in line with the marketing plan. You'll work in an agile manner on both planned and reactive content in what is often a fast-paced environment. You will bring your budget management and problem-solving skills to the role, and having production experience would be desirable.

Your role will involve working with channel experts in content and broadcast as well as often involving working closely with our agencies and in the house production team. You will be passionate about creative and be skilled at thinking creatively and developing new design concepts, graphics and layouts alongside the wider team. You will also develop relationships across the wider business including senior stakeholders across the entire marketing floor.

You will have strong leadership experience at managing a multi-skilled creative and production team. You should strive to coach and develop the team and use your own skills as a highly proficient designer to ensure all creative is best in class.

About you

• You must be a strong manager with at least 3 years of experience in a similar role
• You must be able to manage and prioritise large and fast-paced and varied projects, whilst staying positive, and thinking creatively.
• You are a team player and team leader with excellent cross-functional working abilities, you must have managed a team of designers and producers in a previous role.
• You will have a highly skilled creative motion design background with a strong knowledge of industry-leading technology.
• Your creativity and passion for marketing will drive you to form creative solutions
• Organisational and time management skills and strong ability to work under pressure to varying deadlines.

If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is based at Asda House, Leeds with the flexibility to work from home 2-3 days per week

You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-

• £5,700 company car or car allowance plus discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves