Coley Porter Bell are one of the leading strategic brand design consultancies in the UK.

We are part of the Ogilvy group in London. We have 30 years experience of bringing fresh thinking to brands based on a deep understanding of consumers and markets.

The Role

Coley Porter Bell is looking to employ a Design Director to lead some of its FMCG packaging & brand projects.

The candidate will be a core part of the senior team at Coley Porter Bell and will spearhead client projects within the agency under the leadership of Stephen Bell the Creative Director.

Desired Skills & Experience

The design director will breathe life into our raw ideas and transform them into stunningly beautiful packaging and branding work. You'll be working on packaging for some of the world's best known fmcg brands.

You'll spearhead client projects across five continents. To do that you'll need comprehensive  knowledge of packaging premium alcohol brands in particular. You'll be used to making concepts beautiful through detail and crafting.

You'll have solid experience of working across a wide range of consumer touch points including packaging, online, identity, environment, and guidelines. And you'll understand how to take a brand from concept to execution showing canny strategic insight en route.

This is a senior job so you'll play an important role in our management team. Along with two other design directors you'll manage the work of our studio of 20 designers. You'll need to be an inspirational leader -both to junior designers and as the face of the agency, to our clients.

The candidates will require:

• A demonstration of inspirational leadership and passion both internally and externally. As part of this to be a ‘face' of the business and provide creative counsel to clients and help manage the designers' resource and processes within the business.
• A passion and strong understanding of brands and experience across as many aspects of branding as possible; e.g. packaging, online, identity, environment, guidelines etc.
• The ability to create brands from concept through to implementation married with strong strategic understanding
• Ability to lead, manage and inspire a creative team and nurture talent.
• Big ideas and a strong conceptual imagination
• An ability to make concepts beautiful through detail and crafting
• Excellent at building client relationships and understanding their business and strategic issues as a springboard to great creative work
• Inspirational and articulate presenter.
• Must be energetic, motivating, down to earth and fun
• Must be prepared to work on Tobacco brands. Experience in this area is a plus, especially in terms of taking identities beyond pack and creating visual identity systems that can apply to environments (brand worlds).