Digital Design Team Lead Full Time NEW

Ripley, Derbyshire
SC Johnson Professional

SC Johnson Professional have an exciting opportunity for an Digital Design Team Lead to join the team! You will join us on a full time, permanent, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary.

Location: Denby, DerbyshireFunction: Marketing Services

About us:

Joining the team at SC Johnson Professional makes you part of a family company with a deep history in the professional market as a leading manufacturer of skincare, cleaning and hygiene products, and smart technologies. We provide solutions to Healthcare, Clean Industrial, Industrial, Office & Institutional, Hospitality & Travel, and Retail & Entertainment markets.

SC Johnson Professional is a business unit within SC Johnson, a family-owned and led company and leading manufacturer of quality, trusted products since 1886.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• 4+1 hybrid working model
• Company pension scheme (up to 6% employer contributions)
• Life assurance (4 your salary)
• Free access to a healthcare platform offering nutritional advice, wellbeing support, and more
• Enhanced parental leave policy
• Free optical & hearing test vouchers
• 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays
• Remote work available once a week for eligible employees
• Summer office hours: early Friday finish at 1:00 PM
• Employee benefits platform with discounts & wellbeing perks
• Access to employee assistance programmes
• Complimentary fresh fruit & hot drinks
• Subsidised on-site canteen
• Discounted products at our staff shop
• Free parking
• EV charging points at our Denby site (powered by our own renewable electricity!)
• Cycle-to-work scheme plus bicycle storage area
• “Save a Space” £200 monthly prize draw (earn a ticket every day you car share or don’t use a parking space!)
• And so much more!

About the Digital Design Team Lead role:

The Digital Design Team Lead, reporting directly to the Global Design Manager, leads the Digital Design team with ownership for capacity management, effective delivery of assets at scale, and the evolution of digital design outputs across digital, website, eCommerce and imagery services in a fast-paced, high-demand environment.

Responsibilities as our Digital Design Team Lead:

• Develop and manage the design strategy for the Digital Services function, proactively identifying opportunities for growth and development of the digital design capability.
• Own and evolve digital design processes and ways of working, prioritising efficient, scalable delivery through re-use, simplification, automation and fit-for-purpose quality levels across digital outputs.
• Own workload intake, prioritisation and allocation, acting as the primary escalation point and partnering with cross-functional teams to make clear trade-off decisions, set expectations and manage capacity against competing priorities.
• Lead, mentor and develop the Digital team’s capability across core digital design skill sets, enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across web, campaigns, eCommerce, imagery and video.
• Represent the Digital Design team and Global Design COE in COE forums, project meetings, townhalls and senior stakeholder discussions, clearly articulating strategy, capabilities and the value of digital design services.
• Partner with the Global Design Planner to define, track and act on team KPIs, using insight to inform decision-making, improve productivity and drive continuous improvement across the Digital Services function.
• Establish and maintain digital design standards, frameworks and governance, ensuring consistency, quality and efficiency across all digital outputs.
• Proactively identify industry trends, best practices and emerging approaches, translating them into practical innovations and capability improvements within the Global Design COE.

Experience you’ll bring as our Digital Design Team Lead :

• Proven leadership of digital design teams, with strong creative judgement, quality critique skills, and the ability to build trust, accountability and team confidence.
• Experience shaping and delivering a cohesive digital design strategy across web, campaigns, video, imagery and eCommerce platforms.
• Strong workload and demand management in high-volume environments, with confident stakeholder management, expectation setting and clear trade-off decision-making.

Behaviours you’ll need:

• Uses performance data and KPIs to prioritise work, improve productivity and drive continuous improvement within creative teams.
• Inspires and motivates teams through pressure and change, adopting a coaching mindset that builds confidence, ownership and sound decision-making.
• Influences and collaborates effectively with cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring digital design is well integrated into wider business initiatives.

If you feel like you are the right fit for our Digital Design Team Lead ?, please click ‘Apply’ now – we’d love to hear from you!

Please Note:

• This role is based in the UK, and applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
• We do not provide domestic or international relocation for this role.
• You will be required to work from the office 5 days a week during the first 90 days. After this, the arrangement will transition to 4 days in the office and one day working from home each week.

Inclusion & Diversity ?

We believe Inclusion and Diversity is more than a program. We embed inclusive practices in our day-to-day work, the way we relate to our colleagues, collaborate and make decisions.

We value the collective richness of the differences people bring to the organization, including style, personality, thoughts, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and disability – that enables all to bring their full contributions to the organization.