Do you want to work for the world's biggest sport retailer? Help growing and rebranding Decathlon NL? We're looking for an experienced Creative Lead to join Decathlon Netherlands who will lead the design team. Interested?
Read on!
Your job
You will be part of an international network of experts, obsessed with brand consistency, and safeguarding it across all Decathlon channels and assets. You're main focus will be managing our identity in the Netherlands, guaranteeing our local relevance on any type of content and store experience. You can expect innovation and sustainability to play a major role in your actions.
With the launch of the new Decathlon brand id platform, you will lead the team of designers and visual merchandisers in adopting, adapting, creating, and guaranteeing the local implementation and consistency. You will work in close collaboration with central teams, local business teams as well as external parties to define the best 360 and integrated plans, and implement them. Your objective is to allow all local teams to embark into this new identity, and make the most of its new voice and positioning. Thanks to you the creative team will be autonomous and develop their skills in a mindful and stimulating environment.
Responsibilities
You take care of the personal and professional development of your team; Creation & Design; You organise the team's work and prioritise projects
You translate the brand strategy into our local creative strategy, the end goal: a clear, recognizable, engaging and consistent visual identity across all channels
You will align with our retail concept leader and our international Retaillab to ensure an outstanding implementation of the continuously evolving retail concepts
You make the creative translation of all marketing campaigns, validated in the marketing annual planning
You support other departments and business units, such as internal communications and recruitment in deploying the best creative content for their needs.
What we offer
At Decathlon we not only believe in sports as a lifestyle, but also in creating a stimulating working environment where colleagues with a passion for sports can enjoy exercising together. Job satisfaction is our priority and we promote a great sports culture in which you can be yourself and share your passion for sports. In addition, we offer:
A salary range of between €5,000,- and €6,000,- a month , 8% holiday pay, a possible monthly bonus and 24 wonderful holiday days.
20% discount on our own brands. Whether it concerns sportswear, shoes or equipment, all the products that support your sporting adventures.
We understand that personal growth and development are crucial to a successful career. That is why we offer the unique opportunity to participate in training through our Decathlon Academy.
Decathlon shareholding plan: We believe in sharing success with our employees and offer you the opportunity to become a co-owner of our successful company
To make your trip to our Decathlon team even more pleasant, we also provide a travel allowance.
Decathlon encourages a healthy mind in a healthy body. That's why we offer access to the 'Open Up' platform, where you can find professional support for mental and physical challenges in both your work and private life.
We organise great events such as an annual event where all your colleagues from the Netherlands come together for a day full of sports, fun, food & drinks and a dance!
What we expect from you
You have a passion for sport!
You have more than 5 years of experience in a similar role with human management experience
You are passionate about branding, 360 communication and you think that putting your skills and expertise at the service of the brand will allow it to change its image among its customers in order to be perceived as a global sports brand and multi-specialist.
Your curiosity, your open-mindedness and your team spirit naturally push you to observe brands and to draw on customer knowledge in order to generate attractiveness for the brand and emotion among customers.
Moreover, the Adobe suite and Google software have no secrets for you and AI software (e.g. Midjourney, NewArc.AI, etc.) are not foreign to you, which will allow you to control your creation up to the in the smallest details, both aesthetic and technical.
Your empathy and sense of service lead you to view your work globally and imagine its impact on all the brand's points of contact. Your creativity is therefore stimulated by the link to be guaranteed between local issues and a global playing field.
You know how to unite your project team around your creative convictions and are reassured by your sense of organisation and your ability to concretely transform your ideas into strategy and creation tools.
Your Creative talents and the confidence they generate will make you a natural leader
You are proficient in Dutch and English, French is a plus.
About Decathlon
Decathlon is much more than just a sports retailer. We are an international sports community with a mission to 'move the people through the wonders of sport' regardless of age, background or experience. As the market leader in sports retail, we are constantly evolving and continuing to grow.
Read more about our commitment to sustainability
At Decathlon we are committed to improve our way of working and take responsibility for our activities. We invest in multiple initiatives that help us reduce waste and extend the life cycle of our products such as selling second hand products, renting sports equipment, buying back used products and repairing and maintaining sports products.
Application process
Apply now by sending your cv and motivational letter
Telephone acquintance
First interview
Second interview
Final interview with our CEO
Contract proposal
Welcome at Decathlon!
Apply now and become part of our sportif and passionate team at Decathlon!