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Creative Manager Mr Price

Full-time Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, ZA
Posted 4 days, 16 hours ago 9 views 0 applications

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Ensures the Creative Leader’s strategy is executed effectively across all jobs through creative guidance and support.
  • Ensure all creative work aligns with campaign strategy, brand CI, KPIs, and objectives.
  • Partner with the Creative Leader to refine creative concepts and push creative excellence.
  • Manage creative reviews and ensure continuous creative optimisation based on learnings.
  • Oversee daily studio operations, ensuring smooth workflow across all briefs.
  • Manage resource allocation across Art Directors, Designers, Video and copy ensuring balanced workloads.
  • Monitor timelines, production schedules, and deadlines, and escalate risks early.
  • Track progress of all jobs from briefing → concept → artwork → delivery.
  • Provide creative direction and guidance on briefs, ensuring high-quality execution.
  • Conduct creative reviews before work is submitted to stakeholders or the Creative Leader.
  • Uphold brand CI, creative standards, and best practices across all outputs.
  • Coach and mentor the Design, Video and Copy teams to lift overall creative quality.
  • Lead and support Art Direction Leads, videographers, designers and copywriters
  • Guide performance expectations, deliver continuous feedback, and support development plans.
  • Support a positive, collaborative team culture that encourages creative excellence.
  • Facilitate weekly meetings, reviews, and team communication sessions.
  • Oversee Art Directors in planning and managing photoshoots.
  • Ensure shoot concepts, styling, mood boards, and shot lists align with campaign strategy.
  • Review shoot outputs to ensure alignment with brand and creative direction.
  • Work closely with Brand, Production and Ecommerce teams.
  • Ensure clear communication of creative requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Facilitate alignment between studio outputs and business objectives.
  • Support freelancer relationships to ensure consistent execution of creative work.
  • Track creative performance (design hours, delivery times, quality issues, etc.).
  • Provide regular updates to the Creative Leader on workload, risks, challenges, and wins.
  • Support post-campaign reviews and implement learnings into future creative processes.
  • Identify opportunities to improve systems, templates, processes, and efficiencies.

Requirements

  • Degree in Marketing or Design
  • 8+ years’ experience in Creative Leadership
  • Leadership and development skills, marketing strategy, research interpretation, creative concepts to deliver objectives, keeping abreast of developments within social and digital marketing, analytical ability, and fashion retail experience would be an advantage.
  • Understanding
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