Creative Lead

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life:

You will be joining Bauer Media Audio’s Marketing Team. We are a creative and collaborative group working across some of the UK’s most iconic brands including KISS, Magic Radio, Greatest Hits Radio, Absolute Radio, Kerrang and Planet Rock. Our work also spans podcasts, social video, competitions, commercial events and our listening app, Rayo.

You will join the newly formed Design Hub, working alongside an existing Creative Lead within a growing team of designers and video producers who collaborate closely with brand marketing, podcast, social and commercial events teams. Together, we deliver bold and engaging creative that connects with millions of listeners and viewers.

The difference you will make:

As Creative Lead, you will play a central role in shaping and upholding the creative standard across Bauer’s brands and platforms. Working in partnership with the existing Creative Lead, you will guide a team of midweight and junior designers to deliver high quality, culturally relevant campaigns across digital, print and motion.

From initial brief to final delivery, you will steer projects to ensure excellence in craft, brand consistency and commercial effectiveness. Your leadership will elevate the team’s output, encourage innovation and champion the adoption of emerging tools and technologies, including AI enabled design platforms.

Your role

You will report into the Head of Design and lead creative delivery across multiple platforms and teams. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Creative Leadership and Campaign Delivery

• Leading and mentoring a team of midweight and junior designers

• Delivering integrated campaigns from concept through to final execution

• Presenting creative concepts and campaign work to the Head of Design and senior stakeholders

• Ensuring all creative output aligns with brand guidelines and strategic objectives

• Maintaining high standards of craft across digital, print and motion

Digital, Motion and Print Design

• Overseeing the creation of digital assets for social media, email, websites, events and marketing campaigns

• Leading motion graphics output where required

• Ensuring correct adaptation and optimisation of creative across platforms

• Overseeing preparation of print ready artwork and integrated campaign assets

Collaboration and Innovation

• Partnering with senior leadership and cross functional teams to shape creative direction

• Managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines

• Championing innovation, including AI tools and emerging design platforms

• Staying ahead of media, cultural and digital design trends

Team Development and Culture

• Motivating and inspiring the design team

• Providing constructive feedback and supporting career development

• Creating a positive, collaborative and high performing team culture

The skills you will bring:

Essential

• Significant experience leading and developing creative teams

• Strong portfolio demonstrating multi-platform campaign delivery

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

• Skilled in Figma, Miro, PowerPoint and additional presentation tools used across design and delivery workflows.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines

• Strong stakeholder management experience, including senior leadership collaboration

• Deep understanding of brand consistency across platforms

Desirable

• Motion design skills such as After Effects or Premiere Pro

• Experience using AI creative tools and emerging design technologies

• Experience within media, social, entertainment or digital publishing

Experience

• Senior level design experience delivering high level creative campaigns

• Experience working in fast paced creative or media environments

• Proven track record of leading projects from brief to final delivery

Working pattern and location

Full time, permanent

Hybrid working. London based.

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more!

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin colour, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.