Creative Brand Manager

Full time, permanent position, hybrid-working 2 days per week in the Wallington office

Newmarket Holidays

Newmarket Holidays is a multi-award-winning escorted tour operator, creating inspiring travel experiences for customers across the world. Our marketing and brand team plays a critical role in shaping how customers see, feel and engage with our brand at every stage of their journey.

The role

The Creative Brand Manager is a newly created role within the Marketing and Brand team. You will lead our in-house creative studio, championing brand consistency and creative excellence across all customer touchpoints.

This role combines creative leadership, brand guardianship and studio management. Reporting to the Head of Marketing and Brand, you’ll be responsible for developing and delivering high-quality creative across print and digital channels, ensuring our creative is inspiring, on brand, consistent and on time, whilst driving a passionate team of 5-6 designers to do their best work.

Who you are

• A confident leader of small creative teams and from a hybrid Designer/Creative Brand Lead background.

• A visual creative, skilled in both Brand and Design.

• A strong portfolio showcasing conceptual, design, and brand work.

• Experienced in digital design – preferably from a travel or hospitality brand.

• Able to visualise briefs into cohesive campaigns across multiple channels.

• Able to balance team leadership with hands-on design and creation.

• Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

• Natural ability to influence and inspire through clear communication.

• Passionate about travel, creative marketing and brand.

• Minimum 5 years of experience leading or mentoring creative teams preferably from an agency environment.

• Excellent level of knowledge of Adobe CC suite including InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

• Excellent PowerPoint and Canva skills for producing creative, professional presentations.

• Passionate about the customer, and their experience of our brand.

• Get under the skin of the creative briefs and the ‘why’ rather than just the ‘what’.

• Able to prioritise, re-prioritise and ensure the team is cohesive and motivated.

• Happy to roll up your sleeves and get stuck into whatever comes your way.

• A great team player, supportive and empathetic.

• A thoughtful leader, with the ability to influence up and down.

What we can offer you

• A changing and multi-cultural team-spirited environment with opportunities to learn from new experiences and challenges.

• Leaders who are interested in your development and committed to helping you to be the best version of yourself.

• A responsible organisation that cares about its people, the environment, and the communities we visit

• Encouragement to take initiative and try something new and different.

• A flexible and hybrid-working arrangement.

• An exciting set of benefits.

• The opportunity to visit our destinations and experience our holidays.

Join Us!

Travel is a wonderful industry to be part of. If you're passionate about holidays - perhaps you've done a similar job before or have some other experience that is relevant - we'd love to hear from you! If this sounds like the kind of opportunity, and place to work, that you’re looking for, hit APPLY, and include your CV and Portfolio with a brief covering note about your salary expectations and any notice period.

No agencies, please

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Newmarket Holidays is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Newmarket Holidays.