Studio Manager, Brand & Creative

woodmac; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

WoodMackenzie in Edinburgh is looking for a Studio Manager to be the operational backbone of the Brand & Creative team, driving prioritisation, resource management and ensuring projects move forward with clarity and momentum.

You will work with designers and video specialists, partner with the Brand Manager, and oversee freelance and agency suppliers across the UK and internationally, acting as the primary interface between the creative team and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in studio operations or creative project management.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day running of the studio, ensuring all projects are tracked, prioritised and delivered on time.
• Administer and continuously improve the team’s use of Asana as the central workflow management system.
• Maintain a clear, up-to-date picture of current and future team capacity and workload, flagging risks and resolving bottlenecks proactively.
• Chair regular team stand-ups and project reviews, ensuring actions are clear and followed through.
• Maintain and communicate clear SLAs for creative delivery, ensuring stakeholders understand turnaround commitments and that the team consistently meets them - escalating where timelines are at risk.

Skills

Project management

Resource planning

Asana

Stakeholder management

Tools

Asana

Job description

WoodMackenzie is the global leader in analytics, insights and proprietary data across the entire energy and natural resources landscape.

For over 50 years our work has guided the decisions of the world’s most influential energy producers, utilities companies, financial institutions and governments.

Now, with the world’s energy system more complex and interconnected than ever before, sector-specific views are no longer enough. That’s why we’ve redefined what’s possible with Intelligence Connected.

By fusing our unparalleled proprietary data with the sharpest analytical minds, all supercharged by Synoptic AI, we deliver a clear, interconnected view of the entire value chain. Our trusted team of 2,700 experts across 30 countries breaks siloes and connects industries, markets and regions across the globe.

This empowers our customers to identify risk sooner, spot opportunities faster and recalibrate strategy with confidence - whether planning days, weeks, months or decades ahead.

WoodMackenzie

Intelligence Connected

WoodMac.com

WoodMackenzie Brand Video

WoodMackenzie Values

• Inclusive - we succeed together
• Trusting - we choose to trust each other
• Customer committed - we put customers at the heart of our decisions
• Future Focused - we accelerate change
• Curious - we turn knowledge into action

WoodMackenzie’s Brand & Creative team produces high-quality creative output at pace, supporting the business across a wide range of design, video, motion and brand projects. As Studio Manager, you will be the operational backbone of the team - embedded in the daily workflow, driving prioritisation, managing resources and ensuring projects move forward with clarity and momentum.

This is a hands-on, high-influence role. You will work alongside a talented group of designers and video specialists in our Edinburgh studio as well as partnering with our brand manager, providing the day-to-day oversight and direction that keeps the team focused on what matters most. You will also manage our freelance and agency supplier network, which spans the UK and internationally, and act as a key interface and first point of contact between the creative team and stakeholders across the wider marketing function and organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Studio Operations & Project Management

• Own the day-to-day running of the studio, ensuring all projects are tracked, prioritised and delivered on time
• Administer and continuously improve the team’s use of Asana as the central workflow management system - ensuring it is kept accurate, up to date and used consistently across the team
• Maintain a clear, up-to-date picture of current and future team capacity and workload, flagging risks and resolving bottlenecks proactively
• Chair regular team stand-ups and project reviews, ensuring actions are clear and followed through
• Maintain and communicate clear SLAs for creative delivery, ensuring stakeholders understand turnaround commitments and that the team consistently meets them - escalating where timelines are at risk

Brief Management & Creative Quality Control

• Act as the first point of review for incoming briefs, ensuring they are sufficiently developed before creative resource is committed
• Push back constructively on briefs that are unclear, incomplete or disproportionate in scope - protecting the team’s time and focus
• Intervene where projects risk becoming overcomplicated, helping the team find practical, efficient routes to strong creative output
• Drive internal approval processes, ensuring the right brand and creative leaders are involved at the right points in the workflow and that sign-off does not become a bottleneck
• Work closely with the Brand Manager to ensure that on-brand templates and common visual assets are developed, properly stored and actively reused across projects - reducing unnecessary rework and ensuring the team’s time is focused on genuinely new creative challenges rather than recreating existing solutions

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain positive, collaborative relationships with stakeholders across marketing - including events, content, social, web and other delivery functions - as well as partners elsewhere in the organisation
• Serve as the primary operational point of contact for teams requesting creative support, managing intake, expectations and communication throughout the project lifecycle
• Ensure stakeholder needs are delivered as well-scoped, actionable briefs and ensure feedback loops are clear and efficient
• Represent the creative team’s capacity and priorities confidently, pushing back where necessary to protect quality and focus

Resource, Supplier & Budget Management

• Manage the team’s freelance and agency supplier relationships, ensuring the right resource is engaged at the right time and at the right cost
• Own and actively manage the freelance and supplier budget - tracking spend against forecast, identifying variances early and making resourcing decisions that keep the team within budget without