Creative Lead

Williams Lea

Creative Lead providing integrated creative solutions for a global law firm, developing design assets across print and digital channels. Managing team deliverables while ensuring brand consistency and quality.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £55,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide integrated creative solutions and campaigns that bring to life the content and ‘brand’ design
Liaise with the client in a professional and helpful manner, proactively managing their expectations
Support the business to manage and deliver client work, on time with accuracy
Interpret and challenge the brief requirements, offering the best solution for clients
Take responsibility for escalating or resolving, as appropriate, any client issues, regularly communicating updates to the Global Creative Director
Help deliver the best branded solutions to the Client and market
Proactively providing Clients outstanding printed and digital marketing collateral, in compliance with brand guidelines
Think creatively to produce new ideas and concepts whilst working with the Global Creative Director
Produce templates and ensure consistency of design across the brand rollout and adoption across digital and print
Experience working with design principles of animation and moving image
To use the workflow software and adapt to any existing procedures within the team
Provide technical input and advice on print and digital projects as required
Produce final files for print and write print specs
Ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget
Creation of infographics
Quality checking and accuracy
To lead and develop the team through 1-2-1’s, team meetings, development and performance reviews
To develop and up-skill the team to focus on digital solutions
Ensure that the workload and team is staffed correctly i.e. absence and holidays

Requirements

What you’ll need

Formally design trained with a relevant qualification in graphic design or relevant industry experience
Able to develop compelling concepts and offer innovative design solutions within corporate design guidelines
Strong editorial design experience, including long-form documents and reporting layouts
Advanced expertise in typography, layout systems, composition and information hierarchy
Proven experience writing brand guidelines to ensure consistency across print and digital
Experience in rolling out of brand to support large-scale brand adoption
Confidence to present and explain ideas to clients and colleagues
Ability to balance work on several projects at a time
Understand and anticipate clients’ needs and expectations
Innovative with the ability to implement problem solving initiatives
Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail
Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite; Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premier Pro, After effects, Dreamweaver
Experience in storyboarding animation and motion
Skill in animation and motion graphics are preferred but not essential
Video editing using Adobe suite is preferred but not essential
Knowledge of SharePoint
Working knowledge of MS Office skill

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days holiday, plus bank holidays(pro-rata for part time roles)
Salary sacrifice schemes, retail vouchers
Life Assurance
Private Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Health Assessments
Cycle-to-work scheme
Discounted gym memberships
Referral Scheme

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Hard Skills & Tools

graphic designeditorial designtypographylayout systemscompositioninformation hierarchyanimationmotion graphicsvideo editinginfographics

Soft Skills

client managementcreative thinkingproblem solvingattention to detailteam leadershipcommunicationtime managementinnovationcollaborationpresentation skills

Certifications

relevant qualification in graphic design