Head of Creative Studio - Midrand
Overview
The Head of Creative Studio leads Dis-Chem’s internal creative agency, providing strategic creative leadership across all marketing channels. The role ensures high-quality, brand-aligned, and commercially impactful campaigns, spanning in-store signage, promotional materials, packaging, digital content, social media, video, animation, photography, copywriting, and campaigns. The Head drives the creative vision, guides the team, and collaborates with internal stakeholders and external agencies to deliver exceptional creative outputs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Creative Communication, Marketing, Visual Communication, or related discipline
- 8+ years’ experience in creative leadership, studio management, design, content production, or multidisciplinary creative environments
- 5–8 years’ experience in a leadership or people management role within multidisciplinary creative, studio, or production environments
- Proven experience delivering impactful campaigns and leading high-performing teams
Responsibilities
- Define and champion the creative vision for the studio, ensuring alignment with marketing and brand strategy
- Conceptualize campaign ideas and guide the team to translate them into multi-channel executions
- Mentor and develop the creative team, fostering innovation, collaboration, and high-quality output
- Review and guide creative concepts, storyboards, visual treatments, and messaging for campaigns
- Ensure campaigns are cohesive across channels: in-store, digital, social, website, mailers, press, and PR
- Collaborate with Marketing, Promotions, Social Media, Visual Merchandising, and other teams to ensure creative supports business goals
- Lead internal creative teams including designers, content creators, photographers, copywriters, traffic management, and QA specialists
- Identify skill gaps and collaborate with agencies for specialized services where required
- Manage workloads, deadlines, and ensure efficient delivery of all creative projects
- Maintain effective communication with internal stakeholders on campaign concepts, progress, and approvals
- Ensure external agency work complements internal capabilities and delivers on brief requirements
- Uphold quality standards and compliance for all creative outputs
How to apply
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