Creative Services Team Lead
- NFU Mutual
- Full Time
- Stratford-upon-Avon
Job Description
Creative Services Team Lead
About the role
Are you ready to take the reins and lead the evolution of a cutting-edge local area marketing service? We have a fantastic brand-new opportunity for a Creative Services Team Lead to join our wider Marketing & Digital division on a permanent basis. This role is pivotal in enhancing and optimising the agency's service offerings, improving efficiency, and fostering strong relationships with individual businesses. By focusing on these key areas, you can drive meaningful change and create a more effective support structure for your agency partners.
You will spearhead the implementation of a segmented local area marketing service that meets the diverse needs of our agency network. In this role you will assess current processes and offerings to identify gaps and opportunities and will redesign workflows to align with strategic goals and ensure they are fit for purpose. A full redesign of how incoming requests are triaged and processed to reduce backlog and improve response times is needed, and you will standardise the approach to taking briefs to ensure clarity and consistency. You will develop clear Service Level Agreements to set expectations for response times and deliverables and will leverage data insights to continually refine and optimise our marketing service. You'll oversee day-to-day prioritisation and planning, ensuring that every marketing request is handled and allocated with precision, governance, and adherence to SLAs.
You will cultivate strong and effective relationships with stakeholders across the business and provide valuable feedback to the campaigns team on opportunities for improvement and innovation. Working with a third-party creative agency, you will oversee and manage the creative development with the overall goal to ensure that on-brand, pre-approved materials are readily available for self-service by Agents and the regional Sales team, ensuring alignment on objectives and messaging.
Additionally, you will collaborate closely with key stakeholders and team members to establish and uphold clear principles, ensuring seamless integration of self-service and consultancy approaches. You will also develop and execute an ongoing internal communications plan to boost awareness and engagement with our local area marketing service.
You will lead, manage, and motivate your team to achieve their full potential. You'll conduct daily scrums, monitor individual pipelines, and address any challenges head-on to keep the team on track.
About you
You are a dynamic leader who excels at managing and inspiring teams to achieve their best. With a proven marketing background and solid understanding of the full range of marketing channels, you know how to leverage each one effectively to drive results. You have proven experience of process re-engineering and driving change within a creative services and production function and will ideally have worked with a disparate/satellite workforce. You thrive on process development and improvement, always looking for ways to streamline and enhance efficiency. You have proven experience of managing/working with external creative agencies and suppliers. You have project management experience and a strong understanding of workflow management and you also have a sound understanding of GDPR.
To join our team you must also have;
At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.
We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.
Benefits and Rewards
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:
Working at NFU Mutual
We're one of the UK's leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we've put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being "a great place to work" and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.
We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.