Creative Operations Manager
London (Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
Initial contract of up to 6 months (potential to extend)
Competitive day rate – DOE
We’re partnering with a leading global brand to hire a Creative Operations Manager to join their in-house Creative Studio.
This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives at the intersection of creativity, production and operations. You’ll be responsible for keeping projects moving, protecting creative time, improving workflows and ensuring the studio operates efficiently.
Alongside studio operations, you’ll play a key role in planning and delivering video and photography productions, managing logistics, coordinating stakeholders and ensuring shoots run smoothly from concept through to completion.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day operations of a busy in-house creative studio
- Manage project intake, workflow planning and resource allocation
- Maintain project schedules and delivery timelines across multiple workstreams
- Work closely with stakeholders to gather briefs and manage expectations
- Identify and resolve capacity issues, risks and workflow bottlenecks
- Support and line manage a small creative team
- Lead planning meetings, team check-ins and workload reviews
- Drive continuous improvement across studio processes and ways of working
- Implement AI-powered tools and workflow automations to improve efficiency
- Coordinate video and photography productions from planning through to delivery
- Manage locations, suppliers, talent, equipment and production logistics
- Own production documentation, schedules, release forms and call sheets
- Lead health & safety processes, including risk assessments and shoot compliance
- Support on-set delivery and post-production asset management
About You
- Experience within Creative Operations, Studio Management, Production Management or a similar environment
- Background working within an agency, in-house creative studio, content studio or broadcast/media organisation
- Strong project management and workflow optimisation experience
- Hands-on experience managing video and/or photography productions
- Understanding of production health & safety requirements and risk assessments
- Experience managing or mentoring creative professionals
- Excellent organisational and stakeholder management skills
- Experience using project management platforms such as Monday.com, Asana or similar
- Interest in AI tools, automation and operational efficiency
- Able to balance creative priorities with operational rigour
What’s On Offer
- Opportunity to join a well-established global organisation
- Work on a broad range of creative campaigns and productions
- Influence how an in-house creative studio operates and evolves
- Hybrid working environment
- Long-term contract opportunity with potential for extension
If you’re passionate about helping creative teams do their best work while bringing structure, efficiency and production expertise to a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you.
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