Creative & Build Manager

Position: Creative & Build Manager (Retail Team)

Office location: Hammersmith – London

Salary: £37,000 - £40,000 (depending on experience)

Contract: Full Time – Permanent

Our Mission / Who we are:

iD operates a range of retail services for a number of customers. Our retail division, Agile Retail (agileretail.co.uk) helps brands and retailers develop and execute exciting new, differentiated retail propositions. Our job is to help inspire and create new environments, put them live, and make sure they work hard at inspiring and converting consumers.

About the role:

This role works in our Creative & Build team, which has a wide-ranging set of responsibilities. As Creative & Build Manager, you’ll be helping out on all things creative, design, production and build for all sorts of projects, big and small. Whether it be assisting on creating whole new brands or store concepts from scratch, managing third party production teams to deliver builds on time and to budget, or taking care of small format print, design, copywriting and art working, this full-on and varied role helps keep our retail practice innovating, exciting, and delivered at the fast pace we’re famous for!

Accountabilities:

Great Service Drives Sales

• Contribute to large scale projects by collaborating on and leading elements of the creative and build process. Manage timelines effectively, ensure customers, suppliers and team members are all kept fully up to date, and make sure everything gets done when it’s supposed to!

• Demonstrate the commitment and organisational skill to deliver projects to tight timelines, perfectly executed

• Bring a creative, collaborative and inclusive approach to projects, working to integrate consumer and client needs with our suppliers and teams to execute great end solutions

Be The Expert In Our Field

• Demonstrate a sound and expert knowledge in retail design, VM, POS and instore print projects, as well as a passion for creativity and inspiring customers

• Demonstrate creative thinking to improve the impact, functionality and cost efficiency of solutions, continually looking for and suggesting ways to improve the ROI of our solutions.

• Demonstrate, or learn, basic capabilities in creative disciplines such as art working, conceptual design, illustration, 3D design. Be capable of managing and supporting other members of the team who specialise in these areas

• Understand and continually learn about retail trends, innovations and executions in order to benefit from vast collective knowledge across the company

Treat Every Pound As Your Own

• Manage the financial performance of your Project/Client, ensuring target revenue and profit is delivered and controlling costs effectively

• Constantly seek new opportunities with your customer to expand scope / work / revenue

Our People At Our Heart

• Work closely with wide ranging members of the team, engaging and helping others wherever possible

About you:

• You’ll be a creative retail project manager, with experience creating and helping to build new retail concepts in any number of disciplines, and demonstrable experience in taking these through to project completion.

• You’ll be a completer-finisher; whether projects be big or small, you’ll make sure they get delivered on time, to budget, with great service

• You’ll have a creative and innovative mind, interested in coming up with new ideas, ways of doing things, or approaches to solving customer problems

• You’ll be an effective team worker and relationship builder, as you’ll need to build trust and support across a wide range of stakeholders, including clients, customers, store teams, suppliers, and central teams

• You’ll ideally have some rudimentary design skills yourself, be this proficient use of design software, creative capabilities, or line management experience

Company Benefits:

- A competitive salary + company bonus scheme

- Unlimited paid holiday

- Flexible working

- Regular company social events

- Full time, permanent role, with infinite scope and opportunity for growth as a key part of the growing iD family