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Global Visual Creative Director (Fashion Retail – London) Jobs in London Area, United Kingdom at Atomic Recruitment SEA
Title: Global Visual Creative Director (Fashion Retail – London)
Company: Atomic Recruitment SEA
Location: London Area, United Kingdom
About the role – Headhunter’s note:
We are partnering with a fast-scaling, global fashion retailer to find a visionary Global Visual Creative Director. This is a rare executive-level role based in London, owning the entire visual identity of a brand expanding rapidly across Europe, the US, and Asia.
If you have led world-class campaign and brand creative at scale – think high-street to premium fashion – and want to build something iconic on a global stage, let’s talk!
Location: London, UK (Full-time, on-site)
Salary: £120,000 – £180,000 per year (commensurate with experience) + benefits
Company overview
- A leading global fashion retailer known for fast-paced, design-led, and trend-responsive collections.
- Over 400 stores worldwide, plus a fast-growing e-commerce presence.
- Headquartered in Asia but increasingly London-centric for creative and brand leadership.
- Backed by significant investment in brand elevation – currently transforming from regional powerhouse to a truly global fashion name.
- Culture: high creative ambition, commercially smart, fast decision-making, and international collaboration.
What you’ll lead:
- Define and execute the global visual creative strategy – including seasonal campaigns, lookbooks, digital assets, social content, retail VM, and space design.
- Lead the creative direction of all major brand moments (season launches, collaborations, festive campaigns, key openings).
- Build and manage an in-house creative team (art direction, graphic design, photography, casting) plus external networks (photographers, stylists, agencies, production).
- Partner with product, marketing, and retail teams to ensure creative output aligns with commercial calendars and regional nuances (Europe, US, APAC).
- Drive creative excellence – consistently benchmarking against top-tier international fashion brands.
What you bring:
- 10+ years in fashion/apparel retail visual creative roles, with at least 5 years at Creative Director or Global Head level.
- Proven experience leading global campaigns and visual systems for a multinational fashion brand (high-street, contemporary, or premium).
- A world-class portfolio showing campaign, lookbook, social, and digital asset work.
- Strong track record of managing cross-cultural creative teams and external production partners.
- Fluent business English (Mandarin is a strong plus but not essential).
- Based in London.
This role is for you if:
- You’ve held senior creative roles at scale – think global fashion retailers or flagship creative agencies serving fashion clients.
- You know how to balance uncompromising creativity with commercial reality.
- You can move seamlessly between London, European, and Asian creative cultures.
- You want to help build a future iconic global fashion brand – not just maintain status quo.
Interested?
Apply via the link with your updated CV + portfolio link to [email protected] with subject line: Global Head of Visual Creative – London
Confidential enquiries welcome.
We appreciate all applications buts only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
