Creative Design Manager | alfanar Electric

alfanar alfanar.com Open · verified Sep 19, 2026

Riyadh Manager Creative

Mid-level Creative role at alfanar. Riyadh.

Role brief

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What you'll do

Set creative direction for campaigns and turn business briefs into practical guidance
Protect brand standards across channels, materials, markets, and visual outputs
Run the workflow from initial brief through final delivery, balancing priorities and deadlines
Oversee design, video, product visuals, campaign assets, and other marketing content
Guide designers, media staff, and photographers through constructive quality reviews

What you bring

A bachelor’s degree in marketing, communication, or a related field
Six to ten years of relevant work experience
Capability in advertising design, design tools, design specifications, creativity, and written and spoken communication

Who this fits

This is a Riyadh-based manager role for someone comfortable leading creative staff and taking full ownership of delivery. You’ll fit a setting that expects business plans, budget oversight, timely decisions, process improvement, and adaptation to new technologies and operating models. The role also carries responsibility for a safe, secure, and legally compliant workplace.

From the employer

Job Purpose

Responsible for managing creative design activities, including leading creative direction, ensuring brand consistency, and overseeing delivery of high-quality visual content across campaigns and marketing initiatives in alignment with business objectives.

Key Accountability Areas

Creative Leadership & Direction

Manage creative direction across campaigns and key initiatives
Translate business and marketing briefs into clear and actionable creative directions
Review and challenge creative concepts to ensure relevance, clarity, and impact
Ensure alignment of creative outputs with marketing objectives and target audience needs

Brand & Visual Identity Governance

Ensure all creative outputs comply with brand guidelines and visual standards
Maintain consistency of visual identity across channels, materials, and markets
Support development and refinement of brand guidelines when required

Creative Operations & Delivery

Manage end-to-end creative workflow from brief to final delivery
Ensure timely delivery of outputs at the required quality standards
Prioritize and allocate work based on business needs and deadlines
Maintain visibility on workload and output across the team

Content & Visual Development

Oversee development of design, video, and visual content across platforms
Ensure consistency in visual style, messaging, and execution across all outputs
Support development of campaign assets, product visuals, and marketing materials

Team Management

Manage and guide designers, media team, and photographers
Review outputs and provide clear and constructive feedback to maintain quality standards

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
Making a Tangible Difference:
Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
Provide periodic work progress reports.
Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Bachelor Degree in Markting & Communication or Any relevant field

Work Experience

6 to 10 Years

Technical / Functional Competencies

Advertising DesignDesign ToolsDesign SpecificationsCreativityOral/Written Communications