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As well as permanent vacancies, we're always on the look out for freelancers to help us out during the very busy times.

If you're interested in being considered to join our pool of freelancers or to join us full time, send us your CV and examples of your work.

Creative Studio Manager

We are looking for a creative studio manager to bridge the gap between our design team and our client services team. The successful candidate will provide support and management to the design team. They will be responsible for: 

  • Managing studio requests from the client services team. 
  • Assessing and interrogating briefs as appropriate, assisting with studio time estimates and identifying the correct designers for each project. 
  • Planning the work into the studio – this is a continuous ongoing process, requiring speed, agility and flexibility. Planning in a high volume of quick turnaround jobs alongside larger projects.  
  • Reviewing daily resource and workload schedules and securing time with freelancers when the studio is at capacity.  
  • Ensuring briefs are detailed enough before the designer starts on the project. 
  • Overseeing Quality Control process for relevant projects, eg artwork. Assisting with proofing and reviewing designs as appropriate. 
  • Reviewing and updating the studio management workflow processes to ensure a smooth production process with on-time and efficient delivery. This includes how we work with freelancers.  
  • Managing the bank of freelancers and maintaining the Freelancer Skills Matrix. 
  • Ensuring all work is being saved to the design server on an ongoing basis and all filing protocols are being adhered to.
  • Identifying which projects would make a good case study for our website and marketing materials in conjunction with the Client Services Team. Ensure these are worked on when there is capacity. 
  • Planning in relevant training and upskilling for the design team as appropriate. 

About you:

The ideal candidate will: 

  • Be based in our Newcastle office.  
  • Understand the creative design process, end-to-end.  
  • Be extremely organised and have the ability to continuously re-plan the studio workflow when higher priority projects come in. 
  • Be an excellent communicator. 
  • Be very people-oriented and personable.  

Think you would be a good fit to join our team?

Drop us an email with your CV


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