Our client Greenpeace UK is looking for an experienced Studio Manager to lead the smooth, effective running of our in-house creative studio — a multidisciplinary team producing bold, high-impact content that helps power our campaigns for environmental and social justice.
This is a pivotal role at the heart of their creative operation. You’ll make sure the studio runs like a well-oiled machine: managing workflows, prioritising work, protecting creative time, and ensuring brilliant ideas are delivered on time, on brief, and to the highest standards of quality, accessibility, and inclusion.
If you love bringing clarity and structure to complex creative work, thrive on collaboration, and care deeply about values-led work, we’d love to hear from you
This is a full time role, office based in Islington London.
The hybrid working model enables you to enjoy the benefits of both office based and remote working. We ask that staff work from the office in Islington 40% of their time, with 20% required as a minimum. Reasonable adjustments as well as specific office-based needs will be considered for those with long term health conditions and disabilities.
- Salary £56,988 - £63,756 per annum. We normally offer a starting salary at the first spinal point of the grade
- Generous benefits package!
As a Studio Manager, you are the operational heartbeat of our newly formed in-house creative and production team. We’re looking for an experienced individual who will lead the end-to-end setup of the new studio, transforming a group of talented individuals into a high-performing, well-organised creative community. You will design and implement the workflows, scheduling systems, and capacity planning models that allow our designers, editors, and copywriters to focus on what they do best: creating exceptional work.
- Coordinate and prioritise all incoming creative requests, making sure briefs are clear, realistic, and aligned with organisational priorities.
- Plan and manage studio capacity, balancing workloads and flagging issues early.
- Lead studio scheduling and traffic meetings, maintaining clear visibility of deadlines and dependencies
- Refine and improve creative production processes to increase efficiency, consistency, and creative quality
- Ensure all work meets agreed standards for brand, accessibility, approvals, and delivery
- Collaborate closely with colleagues across digital, social, and marketing teams to create respectful, effective ways of working
- Manage and support a small in-house team (including designers, editors, and writers), providing leadership, feedback, and development
- Oversee the use of freelancers and external support, ensuring value for money and the right talent for the job
- Step in with hands-on creative direction when needed, especially on fast-turnaround projects
- Champion a values-led, anti-racist, inclusive culture within the team
- Deputise for the Head of Creative & Production when required
You’ll be an experienced studio, traffic, or production manager who understands how creative teams work — and how to help them work better.
Key role criteria:
- Experience establishing, reviewing, and refining creative production processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and creative quality, for an in-house team or similar
- Strong experience managing end-to-end production workflows, managing content delivery scheduling and team capacity planning for a multidisciplinary team
- Experience managing creative production requests, able to assess and advise on briefs as required to ensure they are complete, clear and realistic
- Experience in line management of creative professionals, including performance management, coaching, and fostering professional development within studio teams.
- Experience in implementing, maintaining and updating planning tools, giving visibility of team capacity and upcoming deadlines. Familiarity with Asana is essential.
- Experience in fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture, dedicated to anti-racism, that encourages creative exploration while delivering direct actionable feedback to designers, editors and writers.
At Greenpeace UK, how they work is as important as what they do. You’ll need to:
- Share their commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and health & safety
- Be collaborative, values-led, and comfortable navigating disagreement constructively
- Have a passion for storytelling and using creativity to engage audiences
- Be aligned with Greenpeace’s mission and non-party political status
- Be willing to take part in mandatory non-violent direct action (NVDA) training
One of Greenpeace’s Anti Racism Plan objectives is to proactively achieve stronger representation of people of colour, particularly within leadership positions, and they have recently published ambitious race representation targets . Copy and paste these links to find out more information:
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/work-for-greenpeace/diversity-and-inclusion
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/about-greenpeace/representation-targets/
As part of their commitment to increasing representation of people from underrepresented communities in the environmental sector, Greenpeace are piloting a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) as a new approach to make recruitment more equitable. If you identify as a person of colour, you can choose to opt in to the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.
Greenpeace will be aiming to offer everyone who opts into the scheme and meets the essential criteria a first stage interview. While they fully intend to honour this, exceptionally high application volumes may affect our capacity. If so, we will communicate clearly and keep candidates informed as they continue to learn and improve.
Your guaranteed interview application will be processed by The Industry Club and only be shared with the Greenpeace UK recruiting manager and HR team.
To apply for the GIS scheme – you must meet 60% of the role criteria.
To opt in to the scheme please send a cover letter alongside your application Marked: Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) Opt in and detail in no more than 350 words per section how you match the following criteria:
Key role criteria:
- Experience establishing, reviewing, and refining creative production processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and creative quality, for an in-house team or similar
- Strong experience managing end-to-end production workflows, managing content delivery scheduling and team capacity planning for a multidisciplinary team
- Experience managing creative production requests, able to assess and advise on briefs as required to ensure they are complete, clear and realistic
- Experience in line management of creative professionals, including performance management, coaching, and fostering professional development within studio teams.
- Experience in implementing, maintaining and updating planning tools, giving visibility of team capacity and upcoming deadlines. Familiarity with Asana is essential.
- Experience in fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture, dedicated to anti-racism, that encourages creative exploration while delivering direct actionable feedback to designers, editors and writers.
More information on this link, copy and paste:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfisYzbMUc01MKBES_5pFWEYISmteJ4l8CmMl8Zt07bJ_Kb7g/viewform
If this sounds like the ideal position for you, or if you are interested in exploring other Resource management, Creative operations, Business operations jobs in London, please get in touch. As a specialist in Marketing & creative operations recruitment I always have a number of Resource manager, Traffic manager, Operations Manager, Operations Director, Studio Manager, Creative services Manager and HR jobs across Advertising, Production and Media Agencies in London and beyond. You can follow me on LinkedIn, or email annie@theindustryclub.co.uk
Please note due to the large volume of applications we receive we cannot respond to everyone.
