Lucy is Head of Creative Services here at notonthehighstreet, working on everything from our marketing campaigns to the beautiful imagery on our site
Tell us a bit more about your role at NOTHS?
I’ve been working at NOTHS for just over 2 and a half years now, starting off as a Production Manager within our in-house Creative team and working with the other Managers & Assistants facilitating all creative output for the brand. This covers everything from the beautiful imagery you see on our site, to our PR & Customer events. I now oversee the Creative Production team.
Why did you join NOTHS and what appealed to you?
I’ve worked for interior design brands, beauty clients and in fashion but never for an online marketplace. The core foundations of NOTHS are set around supporting small creative businesses; amplifying their artisan skills and products. Our role is to produce the creative to help them achieve this. It felt like such an important purpose that it was something I had to get involved with.
Whats been the most interesting product you’ve worked on?
Every year, it’s the Christmas catalogue. It’s always a challenge and brings many highs and lows for the team but when you get a finished book in your hand, fresh off the press, it’s always a great moment. I’m a bit of a print geek at heart!
What advice would you give to someone applying for a role within the Creative team?
As in any retail-focused Creative team, you have to be resilient. We work at a very fast pace and often have to be quite reactive when things change. But if you can bring a sense of humour and a flexibility for change then the pay-off is always brilliant! We work really hard, laugh LOTS and get to work on some really interesting projects across the business, so everyday is different.
What’s your favourite thing about working here?
There’s always the scope to learn new things which is really important. We are very much in a ‘test-and-learn’ environment at the moment so we’re open to new ideas and challenging the status quo of how we do things, which you don’t get with a lot of other businesses. Especially with bigger brands — you work in processes that are set in stone whereas here, you have that extra little bit of flexibility.
