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About the Role

We are looking for a creative-led Creative Manager to lead the design and creative studio function within the Brand & Communications function at K3 Advisory Group. You will manage creative output across the K3 portfolio, ensuring brand consistency, quality, and commercial effectiveness across all visual assets. This role combines creative leadership with operational management, making it ideal for someone with a strong design sensibility and proven people management experience.

Responsibilities

Design studio management
Brand governance
Manage deadlines and delivery
Develop and execute test and learn plans
Creative resource allocation
Drive conversion design performance
Set team performance objectives
Own the design studio's operating rhythm, ensuring organized briefs and workflows
Build and evolve K3's brand asset and component library, creating a scalable design system
Serve as the studio's first point of contact for new briefs, shaping requirements with stakeholders
Manage brief completion and asset approvals end-to-end
Allocate projects and tasks across the studio, balancing capacity and priority
Set and govern channel-specific design best practice
Optimize digital placements and customer journeys across devices
Research design trends, channel best practice, and competitor creative
Partner with brand managers, marketing heads, and business leaders to craft and execute multi-channel campaign creative
Run creative A/B tests across various channels
Contribute directly to commercial targets through delivered creative
Champion design and digital modernization, using AI for pitch decks and bid materials
Deliver design work personally, balancing workload with team leadership
Train and upskill the team in AI-assisted creative creation
Harness in-house AI agents to generate ICP-segmented creative
Drive a systematic framework for ad creative
Lead, coach, and manage the team, setting clear objectives and driving performance

Requirements

Proven people management experience
Strong design sensibility
Experience in managing creative output across a portfolio
Experience ensuring brand consistency, quality, and commercial effectiveness
Experience working with brand managers, copywriters, and performance specialists
Experience overseeing creative roadmaps
Experience managing capacity
Experience maintaining design systems and asset libraries
Experience in leadership and operational management

Skills

Design studio management
Brand governance
Creative leadership
Operational management
Design systems
Asset library management
Stakeholder management
Project allocation
Capacity balancing
Channel-specific design best practice
Digital optimization
AI-assisted creative creation
Prompt engineering
Creative personalization
Dynamic creative generation
QA and fact-checking
Ad creative framework development
Team leadership
Coaching
Performance management

Location

Manchester
London

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary, commensurate with experience and seniority

Benefits

Performance-related bonus linked to individual and business outcomes
Structured professional development budget and learning opportunities
Pension and healthcare options
Exposure to a broad and diverse portfolio of professional services businesses
A fast-paced, commercially driven environment with real scope for career progression

About the Company

K3 Advisory Group is a professional services firm with a broad and diverse portfolio of businesses.