Creative oversight of the Telegraph's magazine portfolio - currently Saturday Magazine, Stella, ST, Luxury and Ultra Travel and Lifestyle digital channels.
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Lead and manage the newly formed magazine design team
Provide creative vision for our magazine portfolio across print and digital, evaluating existing products, reimagining and redesigning where necessary and as frequently as necessary to ensure Telegraph products lead the industry
Work with the Lifestyle Director on innovative new launches and special projects for print and digital
Lead the creative direction for photographic and illustration commissions
As part of the senior design team, work with the Creative Director to help shape the wider visual output, ensuring Telegraph Design leads the industry across all platforms
Liaise with digital and product design to ensure magazine content is powerfully projected online and any new and related products match and exceed the established standards of our printed products
Liaise with other departments, such as Spark, Marketing and Commercial to ensure successful outcomes for these areas, adapting quickly to changes across the business
Liaise with third party providers including repro houses and print sites to ensure best possible outcomes for our products
Specific requirements / skills:
A detail-orientated manager, who is passionate and confident about presenting stories in a visually compelling way that matches the standard of the Telegraph's journalism.
An experienced manager who sets clear standards and benchmarks and ensures that they are monitored and met.
Strong portfolio of work demonstrating exceptional skills in typography, art direction, page-layout, commissioning (illustration and photography), redesign work and launches of new products inlcuding digital. Experience of video, social media and other formats will be an advantage.
Be able to conceive and execute all aspects of the design process, direct other designers and editors.
Be the primary visual voice for magazines, collaborating on the output with editors. Be an advocate for the coherent visual identity of our products.
Be confident and capable working collaboratively with many stakeholders from across the Telegraph.
Have a keen awareness of current affairs and a passion for storytelling.
Excel at articulating motivation and reasoning behind design and photographic decisions.
Be curious and aware of the wider printed and digital media landscape.
Proven track record of team management and leadership skills within a large organisation.
Have experience of effective people management and staff development.
Have experience of leading and administering a significant editorial department.
Experience working with printed and online media using newsroom page-makeup systems and CMS.
Understanding of the IPSO Editors' Code of Practice.
Proven background in producing high-quality content, appropriate to The Telegraph brand.
Proficient in the full Adobe Creative Suite.
Key Competencies:
Team Management and Team Building:
Leads the definition of team mission and objectives for a variety of teams.
Employs appropriate techniques for maintaining team enthusiasm, energy, and focus.
Communicates both within the team and to stakeholders.
Ensures that team members are on board, unified, and moving in the same direction.
Learns and utilizes special talents and work styles of team members.
Brings projects to closure and ensures capture of what can be learned from the experience.
Effective Communications:
Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
Managing Multiple Priorities:
Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.
Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
Leadership:
Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence.
Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.
Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.
Producing Results:
Communicates a strong sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done.
Reliably meets all team commitments, quotas, and goals.
Ensures time, resources, energy, and actions are focused on priorities that matter to the business.
Makes effective use of resources not under own direct control.
Takes risks in improving products and services while holding self and others accountable.
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