Creative Studio Leader - Brand & Campaign Vision

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 Pharmacies is seeking a Head of Creative Studio to lead the internal creative agency at our Head Office. You will provide strategic creative leadership across marketing channels, drive brand-aligned campaigns, and guide a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality outputs across in-store, digital, social, and packaging.

You will shape the creative vision, mentor the team, and collaborate with internal stakeholders and external agencies to ensure campaigns meet business goals and ROI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Creative Communication, Marketing, Visual Communication, or related discipline. Honours degree or postgraduate qualification advantageous.
• 8+ years’ experience in creative leadership, studio management, design, content production, or multidisciplinary creative environments within agency, publishing, media, brand, or enterprise creative environments.
• 5–8 years’ experience in a leadership or people management role within multidisciplinary creative, studio, or production environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion the creative vision for the studio, ensuring alignment with marketing and brand strategy.
• Conceptualize campaign ideas and guide the team to translate them into multi-channel executions
• Mentor and develop the creative team, fostering innovation, collaboration, and high-quality output.
• Ensure all creative outputs maintain brand consistency and meet strategic objectives
• Review and guide creative concepts, storyboards, visual treatments, and messaging for campaigns
• Ensure campaigns are cohesive across channels: in-store, digital, social, website, mailers, press, and PR
• Collaborate with Marketing, Promotions, Social Media, Visual Merchandising, and other teams to ensure creative supports business goals.
• Lead internal creative teams including designers, content creators, photographers, copywriters, traffic management, and QA specialists.
• Identify skill gaps and collaborate with agencies for specialized services where required
• Manage workloads, deadlines, and ensure efficient delivery of all creative projects
• Maintain effective communication with internal stakeholders on campaign concepts, progress, and approvals.
• Ensure external agency work complements internal capabilities and delivers on brief requirements
• Uphold quality standards and compliance for all creative outputs
• Strong multi-channel creative expertise: design, content, photography, video, animation, copywriting, and packaging.
• Conceptual thinking and the ability to translate marketing strategy into creative campaigns
• Knowledge of retail, in-store marketing, social, digital, and integrated marketing campaigns
• Ability to inspire, mentor, and lead a multi-disciplinary creative team
• Commercial awareness to ensure creative projects drive business objectives and ROI
• Strategic prioritization of resources, balancing creative vision with operational delivery

Skills

Creative leadership

Studio management

Brand strategy

Multi-channel campaigns

Team leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Design

Honours degree or postgraduate qualification advantageous

Job description

Dis-Chem Pharmacies is seeking a Head of Creative Studio to lead the internal creative agency at our Head Office. You will provide strategic creative leadership across marketing channels, drive brand-aligned campaigns, and guide a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality outputs across in-store, digital, social, and packaging.

You will shape the creative vision, mentor the team, and collaborate with internal stakeholders and external agencies to ensure campaigns meet business goals and ROI.