Job Description

Asda is one of the UK\'s best loved and best-known brands, with a head office in the heart of Leeds. We are looking for a Content Design Manager to join our Product & UX team.

Your role:

Reporting into the Head of Product Design & UX, you will manage and lead a team of Content Designers of varying experience to deliver World Class digital experiences. Together with the Head of UX and other UX discipline managers, you will form the eCommerce Design leadership team.

Responsible for defining and delivering vision and leadership within your own Content Design team, you will instil a User Centred culture that nurtures creativity, innovation and design thinking. You will understand strategic and business objectives across projects, and set User Experience direction. You will ensure the team are understanding and translating user needs and business goals into compelling accessible, usable and consistent journeys, digital products and services for our customers.

Working closely with other Design disciplines, Product Managers, Engineers and stakeholders, you will foster cross-functional and cross-departmental collaboration and consistency, to shape the vision and help define our digital product roadmaps and meet our challenging OKRs. You will partner and ensure our team partner with our Research and Data teams to find opportunities and integrate user insights into product strategy and design.

We are currently rebuilding our entire digital real estate following our move to British ownership. Exciting, fast paced design projects abound, and the right person can have real impact.

About you:

You will be a UX Content Design expert \xe2\x80\x93 you\'ll know what a World Class content design team looks like & be an expert on the discipline & practice of UX Content Design.

• You will be a User-Centred Design evangelist.
• Innovation - a love of tech & change, you will be happy to fail as long as we are learning.
• Pragmatism \xe2\x80\x93 you\'ll be able to balance User and Business needs, and apply pragmatism to the development of our products.
• Line Manager \xe2\x80\x93 you\'ll have experience managing people.
• Mentorship - ensuring your team are challenged, developing and becoming even better.
• Collaboration - working closely with colleagues & partners to deliver & embed change across Design.
• Communication \xe2\x80\x93 the ability to bring colleagues on the journey, convincing them of the need for change & ensuring the team are on the same path

Hybrid working:

This is a hybrid working role, but with time every week with your team at our offices at Asda House, Leeds City Centre.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• \xc2\xa35,700 company car or car allowance plus discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves

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