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About the Role
As a Studio Director, you will lead the creation and scaling of distinctive, platform-native content across Europe. Your core mission is to seamlessly run one of our studios, acting as a trusted partner and strategic advisor for brand marketers, leading a talented core team, orchestrating creative delivery, and continuously elevating the quality of our output.
Responsibilities
- Lead the studio’s daily operations, ensuring every brief meets agreed standards and service levels are consistently achieved.
- Serve as the trusted face of the studio to brand marketers, joining their planning sessions, showcasing results, and proactively removing roadblocks.
- Optimize capacity to demand by balancing the core team, flexible resources, and the wider network to handle workflow peaks.
- Oversee creative quality, decision gates, and compliance to the 100% KPI, ensuring high scores on the clients Creative Scale.
- Manage daily workflow with global delivery centres, ensuring flawless quality control before assets reach client approvers.
- Own the quarterly studio scorecard, identifying and driving at least one major operational improvement each quarter.
- Foster a supportive environment focused on retention and growth, leading onboarding, training, and team certification on new brands.
Requirements
- Proven leadership in running a high-volume, high-quality creative or content studio.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience building trust with senior brand marketers and navigating complex matrix structures.
- Strong operational acumen, including capacity planning, resource management, and workflow optimization across global delivery centres.
- A keen eye for creative quality and platform-native content, with experience using data and performance metrics to measure and elevate output.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, capable of translating scorecard data into actionable quarterly improvements.
- A passion for people development, with a track record of building, retaining, and growing high-performing teams.
- Commercially savvy, culturally fluent, and possess a proactive mindset.
Skills
- Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Operational Acumen
- Capacity Planning
- Resource Management
- Workflow Optimization
- Creative Quality Assessment
- Data Analysis
- Performance Metrics
- Problem-Solving
- People Development
- Team Building
- Team Retention
- Team Growth
Location
- London
- National
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
- Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Hybrid Working
- 25 days holiday
- A paid volunteering day
- Option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
- Generous matched pension scheme (up to 17.5% total contribution)
- BUPA Private Medical Insurance
- Discounted BUPA dental cover
- Financial contribution towards physical and mental wellness
- 24/7 access to remote GPs, mental health support, physio, nutrition consultations, and confidential counselling
- Free 1-to-1 professional and personal growth coaching sessions annually
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
About the Company
- Ogilvy is a WPP-operated brand amplification powerhouse.
- At Ogilvy, we are guided by David Ogilvy’s core values: Do the Right Thing, Do the Best Work of Our Lives, and Do It Together.
- Ogilvy champions innovation and the thoughtful application of AI.
- Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK.
- We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy.
- For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do.
- Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.
- We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates.
- If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.
- If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.