Creative Lead

Location: London (Hybrid)
Contract: 6-month FTC
Salary: c.£70K

Overview

We're looking for a Creative Lead to drive and elevate creative output across a dynamic, fast-paced environment spanning brand, digital, and immersive experiences.

This role sits at the intersection of creative, commercial, and delivery - leading a small team to produce high-quality, innovative work that not only looks great but performs.

You'll act as a key bridge between creative, sales, and marketing, ensuring ideas are both ambitious and executable.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Leadership

• Lead creative output across campaigns, content, and experiential activations
• Drive concept development for brand partnerships and commercial projects
• Ensure all work is delivered to a high creative standard, with consistency across touchpoints

Commercial Collaboration

• Partner closely with commercial and sales teams to respond to briefs
• Translate client needs into compelling, insight-led creative ideas
• Balance creative ambition with feasibility, scalability, and budget considerations
• Support pitches and presentations at a senior level

Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a small in-house creative team
• Manage freelancers and external partners where needed
• Oversee workflow, prioritisation, and resource allocation

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, commercial, and production teams
• Act as a key creative voice internally and externally
• Build strong working relationships with clients and partners

Operational & Delivery Focus

• Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
• Support efficient creative processes from briefing through to delivery
• Contribute to improving workflows, tools, and ways of working

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience leading creative projects or teams within an agency or similar environment
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality, commercially effective work
• Experience across brand, digital, content, or experiential projects
• Ability to translate briefs into clear, compelling creative responses
• Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills
• Commercial awareness, with an understanding of budgets and delivery constraints
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams (design, motion, content, etc.)

Profile

• Creative thinker with a commercial mindset
• Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-focused
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment
• Equally confident shaping ideas and ensuring they are delivered

Sphere Digital Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.