Assistant Creative Manager

We are looking for an Assistant Manager (Creative) to join our Brand Development Dept. This candidate will provide essential support in managing the daily workflow, overseeing project timelines, and ensuring smooth communication across the team. The ideal candidate will have strong design skills, excellent organisational abilities, and capacity to manage multiple tasks while maintain high creative standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the Creative Director with the daily allocation of projects and tasks within the creative team, ensuring a balanced workload and adherence to timelines.
• Monitor project progress, providing updates and ensuring that deadlines are met.
• Work closely with the Brand & Marketing team to conceptualise and execute the visual direction for outlet/store launches, ensuring full accountability from initial concept to final execution.
• Propose creative solutions to marketing and design briefs for product launches, key campaigns, A&P collaterals and daily operational content in accordance with Food Republic, Food Junction and our tenant/partner’s brand.
• Present design proposals to Brand Leads and other stakeholders while providing clear rationale and justification behind the design decisions that meet marketing objectives and messaging.
• Work with Visual Merchandising team to ensure productions and artwork for VM display are operationally viable in stores.
• Demonstrate quality control on brand guidelines to ensure brand consistency and compliance throughout all touchpoints.
• Good-to-have: The ability to work with a wide range of media, including digital and minor video editing and animation work.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a senior design role, with a strong portfolio showcasing your work.
• The ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of brand guidelines and the ability to maintain consistency across all creative outputs.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with good team management and work collaboratively with other departments.
• Highly objective-oriented and pro-active.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and other design tools.