Studio Director

About the role

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Studio Director</strong></span></p> <p><strong><br><br>Department: </strong>WPP / Ogilvy<br><strong>Location: </strong>London / National<br><strong>Contract type:</strong> Permanent<br><strong>Full Time/Part time:</strong> Full Time<br><strong>Reporting into:</strong> WPP Lead&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>The Role</strong><br>As a Studio Director within the Studio Network—a dynamic WPP-operated brand amplification powerhouse—you will be at the helm of creating and scaling distinctive, platform-native content across Europe. Your core mission is to seamlessly run one of our studios, acting as the trusted partner and strategic advisor for brand marketers. You will lead a talented core team, orchestrate creative delivery, and continuously elevate the quality of our output, ensuring our studio remains the go-to destination for every brand brief.</p> <p>At Ogilvy, we are guided by David Ogilvy’s core values: <em>Do the Right Thing, Do the Best Work of Our Lives,</em> and <em>Do It Together.</em> If these principles resonate with you, we’d love for you to join us in shaping what’s next.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Lead with Impact:</strong> Direct the studio’s daily operations under the clients leadership, ensuring every brief meets agreed standards and service levels are consistently achieved.</li> <li><strong>Build Lasting Partnerships:</strong> Become the trusted face of the studio to brand marketers across your markets. You'll join their planning sessions, showcase results, and proactively remove any roadblocks.</li> <li><strong>Optimize and Orchestrate:</strong> Smartly match capacity to demand, balancing your core team, flexible resources, and the wider network bench to handle workflow peaks smoothly.</li> <li><strong>Elevate the Creative Standard:</strong> Act as the guardian of quality, overseeing decision gates, tracking compliance to our 100% KPI, and ensuring we hit high scores on the clients Creative Scale.</li> <li><strong>Global Collaboration:</strong> Seamlessly manage the daily workflow with our global delivery centres (India and South Africa), ensuring flawless quality control before assets reach client approvers.</li> <li><strong>Drive Continuous Improvement:</strong> Own the quarterly studio scorecard, pinpointing and driving at least one major operational improvement each quarter.</li> <li><strong>Champion Your Team:</strong> Foster a supportive environment focused on retention and growth. Lead onboarding, ongoing training, and certify the team on every new brand.</li> </ul> <p><strong><br>Key Skills</strong></p> <ul> <li>Proven leadership in running a high-volume, high-quality creative or content studio.</li> <li>Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with a knack for building trust with senior brand marketers and navigating complex matrix structures.</li> <li>Strong operational acumen, including capacity planning, resource management, and workflow optimization across global delivery centres.</li> <li>A sharp eye for creative quality and platform-native content, with experience using data and performance metrics to measure and elevate output.</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving abilities, capable of turning scorecard data into actionable quarterly improvements.</li> <li>A passion for people development, with a track record of building, retaining, and growing high-performing teams.</li> </ul> <p><strong>About You</strong><br>You are a natural leader who thrives at the intersection of operational excellence and creative brilliance. You don't just manage processes; you inspire teams and build unshakeable trust with clients. You are commercially savvy, culturally fluent, and possess a proactive mindset that spots opportunities for improvement before they become issues. If you are ready to drive an engine that produces world-class content for one of the world's most iconic brand portfolios, and you love se

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