About the Role
This role is responsible for implementing New Look’s brand through the creation and delivery of concepts and assets across online and offline channels, reporting into the Senior Styling Manager.
Responsibilities
- Plan and deliver art direction for still life and video shoots, branding and content output, ensuring creative is on-brand, on-message, engaging and delivering product stories within agreed budgets.
- Focus on print and digital activations (.com, app, organic and paid social, POS,), maximising shoot output to ensure it is tailored to fulfil cross-channel needs.
- Work closely with the Art Director Lead to deliver on seasonal narratives ensuring the brand’s purpose: inspiring That New Look Feeling.
- Commission, develop and maintain relationships with photographers, videographers, re-touchers, production agencies, studios, hair and make up artists, who reflect brand values.
- Partner closely with buying/design/merchandising, content, marketing, social, PR, CRM, Paid Marketing, UX, production and trade teams to effectively steer projects and meet KPIs.
- Utilise studios, studio 45 and locations for shoots.
- Work closely with the talent and influencer team to ensure art direction principles are delivered across 3rd party creators including paid for talent and UGC.
Requirements
- Proven depth of experience in commissioning and directing photography, design and moving imagery in an omnichannel retail environment.
- Relevant experience in women’s fashion – experience in men’s and/or children’s fashion a plus.
- A roster of relevant photographers, directors, stylists, and creatives.
- Excellent verbal, visual and written communication skills.
- Experience in creating visuals for digital, print and social executions, special projects and campaigns – especially for paid and organic media channels.
- Detail orientated and well organized.
- A positive and collaborative attitude, both with own team, the wider organisation and external collaborators.
- CV must be in simple format e.g. Microsoft Word.
Work Type
- FTC until October 2026
Benefits
- 40% staff discount plus friends & family discounts throughout the year
- Access to reward platform for external discount and offers
- Private pension scheme
- Virtual GP access for you and your children
- All employees are covered by life assurance policy from day one
- Unlock extra leave with buy more holiday scheme
- Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave (eligible after 2 years’ service)
- Interest-free season ticket loans
- Cycle2Work scheme
About the Company
- Feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.
- Living values: play to win, customer obsessed, one, and it starts with me.
- We care about you and the planet and believe fashion should be a force for positive change.
- We celebrate inclusion and diversity in everything we do.
- Proud of inclusive culture and talented team members who embrace shared purpose, behaviours and values.
- Prioritise development, offering training to support progression.
- Proud to be a flexible employer, colleagues work a range of patterns.
- Proud to partner with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children's Trust.
