Creative Design Manager

Are you a talented graphic designer with strong leadership skills that cover both creative vision and technical depth? Are you eager to bring a creative, driven approach to a diverse range of brands and products? Do you want to play a key role in leading our design team within one of the world’s fastest-growing event businesses?

If you answered YES to any of the above, then keep reading as you could well be the superstar we are looking for!

We are on the lookout for a Creative Design Manager who will lead our design team and deliver creative solutions for a broad portfolio of events, from exhibitions and conferences to awards and media products.

Reporting to the Regional Marketing Director, and as key role within the central Marketing Intelligence and Technology team, this position is ideal for an organised, experienced and hands-on designer looking to spread their wings in a creative lead role or looking for more variety and challenge.

We at Easyfairs are proud to be one of the fastest growing events business in the world! We pride ourselves on offering a dynamic and fun working culture with a focus on developing our employees and recognising their achievements.

The portfolio spans products in multiple and varied industries, and across countries including the UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Algeria. You will be responsible for managing a team to deliver multimedia design such as print, websites, email, videos, GIFs and much more, whilst remaining hands-on with key design projects.

You will have a positive outlook, motivated by working in a fast-paced environment with the opportunity to make a huge impact on the look and feel of all our products and campaigns, and as such feel at home juggling many projects simultaneously.

Sounds exciting, right? Get in touch to find out more - we can’t wait to hear from you!

Is this you?

• 5+ years’ experience in graphic design including 1+ years’ management
• Design skills to deliver creatives across all mediums through all portfolios from graphic design and video for our digital platforms (email, website & social etc.)
• Excellent communication, confident presenting across teams
• Skilled in working at speed with a creative eye for detail
• Highly organised and able to follow efficient processes while supporting the team
• Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to work collaboratively with marketing and digital teams to deliver on quality and expectations
• Systems lead with a curiosity in discovering best practices, piloting and implementing new strategies with the collaboration of stakeholders
• Efficient at problem solving
• Ideally interested in the events sector

What will you get from the role?

• Delivery and creative ownership of a vast and varied portfolio of events
• No day is the same, you will benefit from a huge variety across different industries!
• Be seen as the regional design expert
• Support from and collaboration with design specialists across the Easyfairs group, as well as a team of central marketing specialists within the UK & Global region
• A wide network of working relationships, working closely with marketing teams across 5 offices in Europe
• Talent development, access to training and a great family feel to working life

If you think you have what it takes to grow with Easyfairs and share in our exciting future, please apply with your CV, link to your portfolio and covering letter detailing how you are perfect for the job.

Who are we?

Easyfairs is a pan-European event company. We organise and host more than 200 events in 14 countries (Algeria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and we manage eight venues in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden. Our passion is to bring business communities and communities of interest together. We strive to “easify” the life of our customers and increase the return on their investment of time and money through all-in formulas, advanced technology and a customer-centric approach. The Easyfairs Group employs 750 highly committed talents. Our commitment to excellence has been recognised several times. We were named Belgium’s “Entrepreneur of the Year®” in 2018 and Deloitte has named us a “Best Managed Company” six years running (2019-24). The company is ranked 11th in the list of the world’s leading exhibition companies.

Benefits:

🎂 Birthday day off

🏡 Flexible working as well as hybrid working

👶 Enhanced family pay (maternity & paternity)

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

🚂 Interest free travel loans

📚 Free online academy to focus on professional development and upskilling

🧠 Specialist external performance coach services available to all employees

🤝 Employee assistance programme

👩‍⚕️ 24/7 access to our virtual GP service

🏆 Long service awards

💰 Pension as well as offering salary sacrifice

👪 Life cover

🔒 Group income protection

🍾 Fully stocked beer & wine fridge in the office

🎉 Regular company socials organised throughout the year

We understand that applicants can be put off applying for a job if they feel they don't fit all of the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills/ experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply! Here at Easyfairs, we are passionate about the power of fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for our team to thrive in. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.