Creative Design & Projects Manager

Creative Design & Projects Manager


Salary: Competitive salary


Benefits: Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contributions, Life insurance up to 4 x salary


Location: Leeds


Ways of Working: Hybrid


Hours of work: Monday to Friday 8.30-17.00
Contract Type: Permanent

Why Greencore?


Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.


As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.


Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.


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What you'll be doing


In this busy and exciting role, you will bring our brand strategy to life by creating impactful photography, video, graphics, and design content that elevates engagement across all audiences. You'll lead creative production from concept to delivery, manage our equipment and project pipeline, and deliver high-quality outputs that strengthen our reputation.


Role Accountabilities


• Deliver end-to-end creative production across photography, videography and graphic design, including storyboarding, directing shoots, editing and delivering assets for internal and external channels


• Maintain and optimise the creative equipment inventory, ensuring everything is safe, available and fit for purpose


• Manage the creative project pipeline, responding quickly to briefs, scheduling effectively and ensuring timely delivery


• Embed brand standards across all creative outputs to ensure consistency with guidelines and tone of voice


• Produce standout content for external channels including website and social media, showcasing our purpose, products and people


• Partner closely with Internal Communications to elevate design across colleague channels, including supporting CEO and leadership content


• Improve governance of physical and digital design assets across sites to ensure consistency and quality


• Manage external creatives as required, providing clear briefs, direction and quality assurance


• Curate and maintain the digital asset library to support self-serve across the business


• Support rebrand rollout activity with high-impact signage, templates, films and event assets

What we're looking for


• Hands-on experience in content creation across photography, videography, editing and design


• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign) and Canva


• Experience managing creative projects from brief to delivery in fast-paced environments


• Strong understanding of brand application, quality control and tone of voice


• Knowledge of creative equipment management and production logistics


• Experience producing content for office and manufacturing environments


• Understanding of digital asset management, rights usage and data/privacy considerations


• Collaborative communicator able to challenge and refine briefs constructively


• Highly organised, resilient and able to manage multiple deadlines while maintaining creative excellence

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.


If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.


What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits


• Holidays


• Competitive matched pension contributions


• Life insurance up to 4x salary


• Company share save scheme


• Greencore Qualifications


• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform


• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform


• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.