Studio Operations Director

Inizio Engage

Job Overview

Location

Manchester, United Kingdom

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead, redesign and evolve how the creative studio operates across a fast-moving, versatile agency environment, partnering with the Executive Creative Director to create conditions for creative work to excel.
• Lead daily operations of a diverse creative studio, create clarity and visibility across work flows from concept to delivery, design and implement new workflows and operating models, promote data-informed resourcing and forecasting, line manage studio/operations managers, reduce friction across the creative process, embed clear briefing and handoff practices, help teams understand how to engage the studio and define what 'good' looks like at every stage, serve as an operational partner to creative leadership balancing creative and commercial priorities, and play a central role in shaping the future of creative capability including AI and emerging technologies integration.
• Join Inizio Engage, an unusually shaped communications group that creates experiences inspiring lasting change through employee engagement, learning and training, scientific engagement, and capability building, underpinned by applied behavioural science, with brands including Emota, Forty1 and Nazarè, and values centered on empowerment, rising to challenges, working as one, asking 'what if', and doing the right thing.
• Develop leadership presence, sound judgement, and stakeholder influence while driving transformational change, building scalable operating models, translating strategy into action, and turning vision into sustainable operational excellence that enables creative teams to use their strengths and meet evolving client needs.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience influencing and building credibility with senior creative stakeholders, including Executive Creative Directors and Creative Directors, while driving decisions and maintaining alignment.
• Experience building high-performing operational cultures where creativity can succeed through clarity, collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Experience leading operational, organisational or cultural transformation, with the ability to bring vision, clarity and momentum to change, helping teams embrace new ways of working with confidence.
• Experience implementing tools and capabilities that improve studio performance, creative delivery and operational effectiveness and a genuine interest for innovation, latest technologies and AI.
• Experience operating at leadership level and act as a trusted partner to both creative and operational leaders.
• Experience leading studio or creative operations in an integrated agency or similarly complex environment
• Understanding of how multidisciplinary creative teams operate across different formats and outputs
• Commercial experience, including experience with utilisation, forecasting and resource planning

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days' annual leave plus public holidays, company closure over Christmas plus a personal day
• 3 days volunteering leave
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Hybrid working
• Group Income Protection

Skills & Technologies

Remote

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About Inizio Engage

Inizio Engage is a strategic engagement partner delivering data-driven commercial and creative solutions for clients in healthcare and life sciences. They combine unique methodologies, advanced analytics, and deep expertise to optimize patient care and enhance treatment outcomes globally. With a focus on decision optimization, patient solutions, medical affairs, and commercial strategies including remote HCP engagement, Inizio Engage helps organizations navigate evolving landscapes. The company boasts a significant scale, operating with over 5,000 experts across more than 20 countries, underscoring its broad global reach and local knowledge in empowering better health decisions and ensuring lasting change for its diverse clientele worldwide.

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