Creative Studio Lead — Multichannel Campaigns

Dis-Chem; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical aid

Provident fund

Staff account

Job summary

Dis-Chem Pharmac ies seeks a Head of Creative Studio to lead its internal creative agency at the Head Office. You will drive strategic creative leadership across all marketing channels, ensuring brand-aligned campaigns and high-quality outputs in-store, packaging, digital, social, video, and more.

You will mentor a multidisciplinary team, collaborate with internal stakeholders and external agencies, and uphold brand standards while delivering commercially impactful campaigns that support

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Design, Creative Communication, Marketing, Visual Communication or related discipline; honours/postgraduate advantageous.
• 8+ years in creative leadership and studio management across agencies or enterprise environments.
• 5–8 years in a leadership/people-management role within multidisciplinary creative teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion the studio’s creative vision aligned with brand strategy.
• Conceptualize campaigns and guide multi-channel executions.
• Mentor and develop the creative team to deliver high-quality outputs.
• Ensure brand consistency and campaign objectives across channels.
• Review concepts and messaging for cohesion across in-store, digital, social, and PR.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external agencies to deliver outputs.
• Manage workloads, deadlines and ensure efficient delivery.

Skills

Multichannel creative exp

Campaign ideation

Mentorship & leadership

Brand & ROI focus

Strategic resource prioritization

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in design/related

Honours/postgraduate advantageous

Job description

Dis-Chem Pharmac ies seeks a Head of Creative Studio to lead its internal creative agency at the Head Office. You will drive strategic creative leadership across all marketing channels, ensuring brand-aligned campaigns and high-quality outputs in-store, packaging, digital, social, video, and more.

You will mentor a multidisciplinary team, collaborate with internal stakeholders and external agencies, and uphold brand standards while delivering commercially impactful campaigns that support