Manager, Creative Services

Job Description

Role Purpose

The Creative Services team within the Family Brands Division at Entertainment One, is looking for a Creative Manager to oversee the production of all creative produced for one of our-pre school brands. You will have strong experience within the entertainment industry and can demonstrate proven experience of implementing the brand creative direction across all brand and marketing need material that we as a team produce.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of all projects that are delivered to support one of our pre-school brands working with internal designers and external vendors to produce work of the highest quality. Offering strong art direction on the work they produce, which will helping to drive through the creative within each project, ensuring it meets the need of each brief but stay true to the values of the brand.

You will be an excellent communicator, who can give clear and concise feedback to the designers and vendors, and partnering with key stakeholders within the business to ensure they have visibility at key moments in the schedule. We're looking for a proactive, driven and problem-solving attitude, and someone who will thrive on collaborating with different teams within the business, using their passion for design at all times.

Above all someone who loves working on kids brands within the entertainment industry.

In this role, your accountabilities and responsibilities are…
• Responsible for delivering all assets, toolkits and guides that we as a team deliver against one of our pre-school properties.
• Ensure the creative direction is implemented within all the creative we produce, that ties in with both the core DNA of the brand and the brand strategy.
• Partner with the global brand team, to get their input, feedback and overall approval on all assets that are created.
• Along with the Creative Director, partner with the production team to be across all assets in development for the brand(s).
• Have in depth knowledge of the pre-school brand they will be managing the creative. From what's coming through from production through to how the assets are being used across product, marketing, packaging and more.
• Ensure the Creative Director for Pre-School, is kept up to date on the status of all assets, and get their feedback on the creative when required as well as their final approval.
• Partner with the Consumer Products and Toy creative teams, to ensure they have visibility of the creative we are producing, giving them the opportunity as a key stakeholder for input.
• Responsible for the delivery of all character art created, from writing the brief through to ensuring the colour palette is accurate and all files are QC'd
• 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.
• Be across the competitor landscape to ensure the brand creative, has an extremely strong presence within the entertainment industry.
• Working with both the internal team and external resource, to oversee the delivery of all brand assets, identifying what resource we need and art directing the work that gets created by this external resource.
• 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.
• Have a strong understanding of the entertainment marketing teams, regional campaigns and partnerships, to ensure assets are created to support their needs.
• Have a good knowledge of the commercial landscape, understanding how creative assets for the brand(s) will be used across different product and marketing material.
• Line manage designers within the team, offering creative direction and additional managerial support when needed. Ensuring they have clear objectives, tied in with the teams' objectives, which supports the needs of the business.
• Working with the Director to develop strong concepts and mood boards, setting the direction of each brief.
• Partner with suitable external agencies where required, offering clear and concise creative direction.
• Have good depth knowledge of all episodic content and be abreast of new content in the pipeline.
• Collaborate with the video editors and animators in the team to ensure they have the assets needed for the video content they create.
• Be the first point of contact for all creative asset knowledge for the brand.
• Be a creative brand champion, with thorough comprehensive knowledge of the brand, understanding how the entertainment content can best be translated across all touch points.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwbbpy-3-15-193-45-42 in your application.