Gavin Fudge Email & Phone Number

Stourport-On-Severn, Gb

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Senior operational and creative lead for a large team covering fashion film, photography, graphic design and styling for a large global fashion brand.Responsibilities:• Delivering film and photography assets for worldwide, multi-channel use, including Marketing, E-commerce, B2B, and corporate requirements.• Leading creative proposals from concept to completion, including art direction, ensuring collaboration and management of input from other business areas and stakeholders.• Managing creative processes and production in film, photography, graphic design and styling, with overview and responsibility for all completed creative work.• Developing team objectives, strategies, and tactics to deliver business goals.• Setting and managing departmental budgets.• Developing collaborative relationships with directors and senior departmental managers to complete work supporting the achievement of strategic objectives.• Working with external stakeholders and partners to complete work to brief for extended business support.• Coaching and mentoring team members to achieve development goals.Achievements:• Completed a business-wide strategic review of all film and photographic delivery to achieve consolidation efficiencies and expansion of provision achieving approx 30% reduction in process workload.• Managed teams in production of a number of creative campaigns managing film & photography shoots, and graphic design, to strict delivery deadlines.• Restructured the graphic design team, re-engineering creative processes to achieve brand focus and high-quality efficiently-produced creative work.• Built and led a dedicated film team to support in-house film/video provision for the production of external marketing campaigns and internal business communications.• Managed restructure and change to support service provision for approx 15% year-on-year growth in e-commerce, wholesale and digital marketing requirements, building the team from 9 to 28 people over five years.

Managed a creative team with responsibility for delivering all creative graphic design - digital and print - and photographic work for an independent fashion company.Responsibilities:• Managed all aspects of creative and production for numerous location shoots for marketing campaigns/social media• Leading and directing creative production for all marketing and retail design & photography requirements• Design and delivery of company brand and e-commerce websites, managing all asset creation and delivery• Direction and management of company brand identityAchievements:• Expanded studio provision to implement model shooting for e-commerce, including for external clients within the wider business group• Completion of 4 seasonal campaigns delivering assets across all retail and digital requirements• Restructured IT systems to support all creative and product design teams across the business, delivering a shared work platform, internal communications blog and work tracking

Managed a creative team with responsibility for delivering all design work for a large local authority organisation.Key Responsibilities:• Working with external and internal stakeholders, including businesses and public organisations, to produce all creative design work to brief• Managing the team as a ‘business unit’ charging back work internally and externally, ensuring profitability, including building and managing external partnerships• Design and implementation of corporate brand, managing guidance with internal and external teams• Team and individual leadershipAchievements:• Undertook a review and redesign of corporate identity with cross functional teams and managed subsequent implementation within the team and an organisation of 3000+ employees• Managed regular procurement/selection of external suppliers for design and print production in a public sector framework, and worked with suppliers to brief and produce creative work as required

Worked as a self-employed graphic designer, with a range of clients spanning small local business and blue-chip national clients.

Ba (Hons), 3D Design

Activities and Societies: Entertainments Committee 1992-1994

Hnd, 3D Design (Ceramics)

Btec National Diploma, 3D Design