Head of Design and Creative NEW

Rodial Ltd.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Design & Creative to join the team, working across both our brands; Rodial and Nip+Fab. You will oversee the in house design studio, ensuring the efficient planning, resourcing and delivery of all visual assets across digital, packaging, retail and marketing. This role blends team and workflow management with hands on creative leadership. Working with the Rodial Founder and the Nip + Fab Managing Director, you will turn business goals into impactful, brand aligned creative across all consumer touchpoints.

Please note this role is based 4 days a week in West London, W11, and 1 day a week from home.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end to end creative project pipeline, ensuring all design and content projects are delivered on time, on brand, and within scope.
• Manage internal traffic flow, prioritising work across design, copy, and content based on business needs and deadlines.
• Work closely with cross functional teams to define creative briefs, timelines and asset requirements.
• Lead weekly creative production meetings to track progress, assign resources, and identify potential roadblocks.
• Produce and art direct seasonal or campaign photoshoots, working with the internal Senior Designer and external photographers, stylists and teams.
• Ensure creative consistency across packaging, digital marketing, social media, e commerce, and retail.
• Review and approve final designs and assets, maintaining high standards for quality and brand alignment.
• Lead and mentor an in house team of designers, artworkers, and freelancers, encouraging a positive, collaborative studio culture.
• Provide structured feedback and support professional development for team members.
• Coordinate with external agencies, photographers and production partners when needed.
• Maintain and evolve the visual identity guidelines, ensuring brand cohesion across all creative output.
• Support product launches with clear, effective visual asset ‘Tool Kits’ in partnership with NPD, retail, social, PR and E Commerce.
• Oversee and contribute to the development of compelling, on brand copy across packaging, digital and marketing assets; hands on writing a plus, with an emphasis on maintaining consistency in tone of voice and messaging across all channels.

The successful candidate will have the following:

• Design or creative project management experience, ideally in beauty, fashion or lifestyle.
• Experience managing a busy internal studio or design department, with strong traffic/project management capabilities.
• Comfortable balancing hands on design/art direction with operational responsibilities.
• Proven track record in overseeing creative workflows across multiple channels (digital, packaging, retail).
• Excellent commercial awareness and knowledge.
• Experience with visual business as usual media, including emails, website graphics, affiliate graphics and mobile devices.
• Strong copywriting skills and experience working with brand tone of voice across various formats.
• Advanced skills, in Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Office. Mac literate.
• Familiarity with Figma, and relevant project management tools (e.g. Asana, Trello, ).
• Ability to communicate at all levels with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent team management and development skills.
• Excellent prioritisation and time management skills.