Brand & Creative Manager - Hands-On Leadership

Position: Brand & Creative Manager - Hands-On Leadership. Travel
Brand Strategy | Graphic Design | Creative Direction | Digital & Print | Team Leadership

Great Brands Don't Happen by Accident. They're Designed, Built and Brought to Life.

At Not Just Travel, we believe travel should feel personal, exciting and full of possibility.

Our brand plays a huge part in bringing that experience to life, from national campaigns and digital content to the resources our Travel Consultants use every day.

We're looking for a talented Brand & Creative Manager who combines outstanding design skills with the confidence to lead a creative team, champion brand consistency and turn ideas into beautiful, commercially effective work.

This is a hands-on creative leadership role.

You'll set the direction, develop the team and manage creative delivery, but you'll also be personally designing and producing important work.

If you love great design, understand the importance of brand consistency and enjoy helping others do their best creative work, this could be a brilliant next step.

The Role at a Glance

Brand & Creative Manager
Hybrid Working | Christchurch, Dorset (3 days onsite)
Competitive Salary DOE + Excellent Benefits
Full-Time | Permanent

Reporting to:
Marketing Operations Lead
Direct Reports: 2

The Opportunity

You'll take ownership of how the Not Just Travel brand is expressed across our business, ensuring everything we create feels consistent, engaging and unmistakably NJT.

Leading a small in-house creative team, you'll balance creative quality with practical delivery, supporting campaigns, events, digital channels and our wider Travel Consultant network.

You'll also develop the tools, templates and training that help people across the business create great on-brand content themselves.

What You'll Be Doing

Brand Leadership & Creative Direction

• Own brand standards, guidelines, approvals and consistency across HQ and the Travel Consultant network.

• Set creative direction and quality standards across digital, print, campaigns and events.

• Personally design and produce high-quality campaign, brand and sales-enablement materials, from concept to finished artwork.

• Review creative work, provide constructive feedback and ensure outputs meet commercial and audience needs.

• Oversee branding for events, new websites and other high-impact applications.

Creative Operations & Team Management

• Lead and develop the Senior Creative Executive and Creative Executive.

• Manage creative briefs, workflow, priorities and production schedules.

• Work with Marketing Operations to decide what should be produced internally, outsourced or made available through self-service.

• Manage creative agencies, freelancers, photographers, videographers and production suppliers.

• Maintain photography and video libraries, including asset permissions, usage rights and accessibility.

• Monitor creative capacity, delivery quality and opportunities to improve efficiency.

Empowering Our Travel Consultants

Our Travel Consultants need practical, professional creative resources to help promote their businesses.

You'll take ownership of our Design Hub and Marketplace, ensuring templates, brand assets and self-service resources are current, accessible and easy to use.

You'll also deliver brand and creative training to colleagues and Travel Consultants, helping them confidently represent Not Just Travel across their own marketing channels.

About You

We're looking for an accomplished designer who has progressed into creative leadership without losing their passion for the craft.

You'll bring:

• Proven experience leading brand and creative delivery while remaining a confident, hands-on designer.

• A strong portfolio of personally designed work, including brand systems and multichannel campaigns across digital and print.

• Advanced…