Studio Manager

Job Introduction

Our Brand & Communications team is investing in the development of a new Creative Content Hub enabling us to centralise the development of all region, brand and segment content and campaigns. This is being developed in collaboration with our Marketing colleagues.

We’re looking to add an experienced and ambitious Studio Manager to the line-up who’ll be responsible for the smooth running and high quality output of the newly formed Creative Content Hub. In this role, you’ll manage our growing inhouse team of creatives and the freelance bench, and support the building of relationships with creative agency partners. You’ll be involved in everything from resource & project planning to client engagement and financial & budget management (with plenty of support from the finance team).

In this exciting newly created role, you’ll be tasked with increasing the efficiency and output of the Hub by enabling the creative team to focus on asset creation and creative consultancy services, while you’ll manage resources and ensure we have the right suppliers and freelancers in place to support the needs of our organisation.

To be successful you’ll have great time management and organisation skills, be confident handling spreadsheets with solid budget management skills. You’ll be a great communicator with brilliant stakeholder management skills and have a good understanding of the production, creative / digital marketing content process to boot. You don’t need to be a designer or copywriter, but you will (or should) know what strong creative work looks like.

You’ll have the opportunity to add value from your first day, working as part of a growing proactive, creative and inspiring team. You’ll be able to develop your knowledge and skills and build a career in a company that’s got so many stories to tell.

This role will be based in our Salford Creative Hub with hybrid working available.

Role Responsibility

You’ll play a pivotal role managing our Creative Content Hub, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and on brief. Your main accountabilities will be:

• Working closely with the inhouse team: Creative Lead, Designer and Marketing copywriter initially, in addition to a bench of freelance specialists to deliver high quality creative work that meets commercial objectives
• Supporting the development of an agency PSL for projects that cannot be delivered by the inhouse team or freelance bench
• Facilitating (with a 50:50 split) digital marketing activity supporting marketing teams with lead generation and regional brand activity
• Leading (internal) client engagement, financial, planning and administrative tasks for the Creative Content Hub.
• Champion collaboration - liaising with internal clients, group marketing and the wider Brand and Comms team on overall content planning/ scheduling
• Enabling the content hub to build a strong profile and reputation within the business, driving growth and therefore cost efficiencies for the business as a whole.
• Providing expert creative project management, including consulting on briefs, overseeing budgets, reporting and supplier management
• Working towards building a broader network of varied and skilled creative suppliers.
• Ensuring the content hub remains financially viable

The Ideal Candidate

What’s essential:

• An understanding of the production/creative/digital marketing content process with recent experience in a similar or comparable role
• Ability to work autonomously with an entrepreneurial zeal to put the Creative Content Hub firmly on a growth trajectory
• Evidence of strong project management and financial management skills
• Highly efficient and organized multitasker with keen attention to detail
• Target, detail and solution-oriented, enthusiastic and ambitious with excellent communications skills and ability to think on your feet
• Effective communicator, approachable individual with good client management and negotiation skills 
• Confident, calm and reassuring presence, unfazed by tight deadlines and conflicting priorities

Where we can be flexible:

• Experience of working in a creative, digital marketing, PR or communications agency or in-house environment
• Experience supporting either a new business start-up or an organization with growth aspirations

Package Description

c.£46,000 per annum plus benefits and bonus

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. 

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process