Role profile
After a long period of sustained growth, we are looking to invest significantly in our Sales & Marketing team. We are now looking for a Senior Brand & Creative Manager who has the appetite to revolutionise marketing and creativity within the legal sector.
This will be a key and transformative role, supporting the firm's strategic objectives by guiding a market-leading brand strategy and identity.
This role can be based in either London or Bristol, with regular travel to all our UK offices.
Osborne Clarke
Osborne Clarke is a future-focused international legal practice with a global turnover of over €442m and more than 1,600 talented lawyers in 26 offices around the world. We have an incredible client base ranging from FTSE 100 companies to disruptive start-ups, spanning some of the most cutting-edge sectors of business.
We achieve our continued success through a deeper understanding of our people and clients, a collective vision, and a focus on innovation and maximising the opportunities of change.
What You'll Do
- Manage Osborne Clarke's brand experience and corporate identity to ensure it supports the firm's strategic objectives, remains distinctive in the market, and translates well across digital media.
- Develop initiatives to drive brand awareness and engagement.
- Work closely with HR and the wider communications, brand, and marketing teams to further develop the employer brand.
- Ensure appropriate and strategic brand consistency across all touchpoints, using knowledge of teams and functions to enable flexibility and effectiveness rather than a 'policing' approach.
- Take a holistic and sophisticated approach to monitoring and optimising brand performance.
- Work closely with all areas of the firm to ensure alignment with initiatives and strategic aims.
- Coach and manage a large team with responsibility for brand management/development, design, and online presence/website.
- Inspire and engage the brand function to deliver high performance across the team and remain exceptional in the marketplace.
- Contribute to a positive and collaborative environment.
- Manage existing relationships with third-party agencies and suppliers, conducting ongoing reviews and recommendations for improvement as well as auditing our agency roster.
What We're Looking For
- Significant strategic corporate brand and visual identity experience.
- Proven track record of innovative and creative approaches to brand and corporate identities
- Proven track record of designing and implementing a new brand strategy in a senior brand role, monitoring effectiveness, and flexing as appropriate.
- Experience of advising and influencing senior management.
- Able to analyse complex business challenges and formulate brand solutions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to motivate and interact with people at all levels.
- Budget management experience.
- Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
- Graphic design certification/experience.
- Significant project management and effective change management experience.
- Significant experience in managing, coaching, and motivating teams.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and flexible with the ability to embrace and capitalise on change.
Salary And Benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.
Our recruitment process
If you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Alex Van Hattum (Head of Recruitment) on 0117 917 3070 or email
[email protected].
Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.
About Us
Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.
At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.
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