The Art Director will support creative leadership in developing and delivering innovative solutions for retail clients. Responsibilities include idea generation, collaboration across teams, project tracking, and contributing to new business pitches, with a focus on leveraging insights to create engaging brand experiences.
We are looking for an Art Directors, creative thinkers and visual communicators to join our creative department. Your role will be an integral part of imagining the very best creative ideas that deliver insight led experiences for some of the best brands in the world. If you have 3 years’ experience in a similar role, we want to talk to you.
We create physical and digital events that make fans for brands, wherever they are. Working in partnership with our clients, we use insight-led creative and brand experiences to engage with the right people and change what they think, feel and do. We apply 20 years of marketing experience to successfully deliver our clients’ requirements, across sectors including FMCG, health and beauty, luxury goods, retail and technology. Our clients include household names such as Tesco, Coca-Cola and Superdrug.
What you will be doing
- Supporting the Executive and Associate Creative Directors in ideating, developing, designing, and delivering creative solutions predominantly for our retail clients.
- Ability to ideate, sometimes lead on projects – working closely with team seniors as well as other departments, to achieve commercial and creative objectives.
- Keeping internal departments and project leads updated with progress.
- Supporting new business pitches, producing outstanding creative concepts that help to inspire and procure new clients.
- Enriching N2O’s capability of delivering creative solutions in the retail space.
- Showing and building your knowledge around digital and experiential, and sharing with the team.
- A passion for the retail/grocery sector, with around 3 years’ experience in a similar role within retail activation/FMCG focussed agency.
- Demonstrable understanding of the retail environment, its touchpoints, and the customer mindset.
- Openness to learn, collaborate, inspire and innovate.
- Be fluent in In-Design, Illustrator and other Creative Suite programmes, as well as MS Office.
- Ability to blend commercial awareness with passion and creative flair.
- Instinctive brand awareness and demonstrated experience of pushing boundaries and evolving brands.
- Salary up to £45K depending on experience
- Maidenhead office based but flexibility to work from home 2 days a week
- 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing each completed year to 30 days
- Flex holiday scheme with options to buy/ sell holiday
- Digital GP service and Digital Dental service from Day 1
- Free medical insurance after 2 years' service
- Life assurance
- Retail discounts scheme
- Employee Assist Programme
- Season ticket loan
- Head office location has multiple perks including on site gym, free breakfasts, and onsite cafe
Top Skills
Illustrator
In-Design
N2O Maidenhead, England Office
Foundation Park, Maidenhead, United Kingdom, SL6 3UD
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