In-House Creative Studio Manager - 12 Month FTC

At Danone we operate Smart Working, this means that our Danoners are entrusted with balancing the needs of their role, business, and stakeholder needs with their own personal choices on where and how they best do their work. We value output and personal contribution, enabling ‘Danoners’ to be their most energised, healthy, and productive selves.

When team connection and collaboration are required, our hubs are located in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin.

Role Purpose

We have recently launched our brand new in-house creative marketing agency "D-Studio". This partnership will allow all functions, teams, and individuals across Danone to work directly with a 12-strong team of creative experts in order to create best-in-class creative assets. The primary mission of this role is to help drive the success of D-Studio through the overarching management of the studio, including but not limited to, acting as the primary point of contact with Danoners at all levels from across the business to help them realise their creative goals, and managing the output of our creative experts, as well as ensuring efficiency and excellence in all working processes.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to play a key part in shaping best-in-class ways of working between Danone and the Studio, which will ultimately determine the overall success of this exciting partnership.

This role would suit someone from a Marketing Agency background who has sat in an Account Management role that involves mainly client relationship management with some creative input. Or, a Brand Manager who has extensive experience briefing creative agencies as part of their role.

Please note, this is a 12-month FTC role which is likely to go permanent for the right person.

Role Focus

• Being part of the extended D-Studio team and supporting them in workload prioritisation as well as managing stakeholders at all levels of the business
• Supporting the Head of Integrated Customer Experience in shaping the scope of work approach and management
• Supporting non-marketing functions with briefings, giving feedback & how to get the best out of the studio
• Working with the D-Studio team on quarterly reviews, with a continuous learning mindset on how we can improve the way of working & quality of output
• Continuing to embed & champion the D-Studio within Danone, thinking about how we can integrate them and make sure they feel like "Danoners"
• Helping entire business understand how to work with the D-Studio team and get the best output
• Connecting with Global Danone D-Studio lead to tap make sure we are leveraging the wider D-Studio network and sharing learning

As a successful D-Studio Manager, we would love to see you demonstrate -

Leadership

• Stakeholder Management
• High agility
• Resilience
• Drive & accountability

Functional Experience

• Leading cross-functional & cross-agency teams
• Experience working with creative agencies, including briefing and giving feedback on creative
• Ideally, experience in managing 360 comms campaigns, from brief to execution
• Experience in developing creative assets across various touchpoints

Ideal Profile:

• Passionate about creativity & working with our agency partners
• Strong organisation, accountability with the ability to connect with stakeholders at all levels

Danone are a world leader across 3 categories: Essential Dairy & Plant Based, Natural Sourced Waters and Specialised Nutrition, many of our consumer brands are household names, ranging from heritage brands like Cow & Gate and Harrogate Waters to international favourites like Actimel, Alpro and evian. In the UK & Ireland and in every market in which we operate, we are committed to delivering health through food and drink to as many people as possible.

We operate at 5 production sites as well as our 3 HUBS in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin - led by our people who power everything we do and are key to our success. We are a team of 2000+ Danoners, part of a 100,000 strong global family.

‘A force for good’, we are the first top 10 branded food and healthcare manufacturer in the UK & Ireland to certify as a B Corp. We are part of a growing global community set up to balance purpose and profit, helping to create a better world while thriving as businesses.

Our mission and values guide how we behave, our flexible ways of working, how we connect with our communities and how we grow & develop our people. We offer a competitive package including a double matched pension, annual bonus, private healthcare, life assurance, flexible benefits and product vouchers.

As a global company, Danone serves a huge array of different communities, with different cultures, local tastes and habits. Our teams need to represent the diversity of these millions of people and we therefore encourage applications from all backgrounds and aim to create a workplace where our Danoners can be their true authentic selves.