Studio Manager

**Join our award-winning marketing team at our beautiful brand new office above our latest flagship store**
- ** Full-time permanent role in a supportive, collaborative team**:

- ** Flexible and hybrid working arrangements**:

- ** Lead a team of Graphic Designers and Multimedia Designers**

**The Role**

Reporting to the Group Marketing Manager and Creative Director, and with 6 direct reports, the purpose of this role is to lead the design team and execute Art Director responsibilities effectively.
- You will interact and collaborate with team members to ensure accurate production of marketing collateral, provide coaching, mentoring, advice and guidance to your team of graphic designers
- Assist the Creative Director and the Marketing Team, with execution of the groups advertising and marketing material ensuring the company’s brand positioning and integrity is maintained
- Planning, managing, and executing on-location photoshoots, both in our internal photography studio and on location.

**Key Responsibilities will include**:

- Responsible for the effective day-to-day management and development of the design team, providing guidance and support to grow their skillset
- Assist team members in understanding briefs, providing advice and clarification when required
- Provide key sign-off on all design material and projects, ensuring that all work is correct, accurate and is to the highest standard possible, whilst adequately reflecting the brand’s style-guide
- Investigate and implement better and more efficient systems and processes for the design team, including managing external suppliers
- Manage and run weekly WIP meetings to provide feedback on progress of work
- Work on design projects for the whole Beacon Lighting Group, ensuring that our brand positioning and style guidelines are met
- Ensure all brand style guides are reviewed, developed when appropriate and are kept up to date
- Liaise with external print/production suppliers to ensure correct specifications are gained before forwarding artwork
- Manage and maintain accurate image library, ensuring all images are correctly filed for all designers and relevant departments to access
- Oversee project execution from creative concept development to delivery, including pre-production planning, on-location photoshoots, post-production edits, liaising with the relevant suppliers and internal stakeholders and ensure all projects are completed within the agreed deadlines
- Ensure the studio, sets, props, and equipment are well-maintained and organised

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will have:

- Diploma / Degree in graphic design or finished art and/or relevant qualifications or experience and competency in graphic design/finished art, art direction and/or creative direction
- A minimum of 5 years previous industry experience in a similar role is desirable
- Proficiency working with Mac OS
- Advanced Adobe Creative Suite Skills, particularly In-Design, Photoshop, Illustrator

**Benefits**

In return for your efforts, we offer an attractive salary package, generous product discounts and a great supportive team culture. Based in Nunawading, this role also offers flexible working arrangements that enable significant time working from home. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within an ASX listed company that has been constantly evolving and striving for success for over 50 years.

**About Beacon Lighting Group**
Established in Melbourne in 1967, Beacon Lighting is Australia’s leading specialist retailer of lights, ceiling fans and light globes, with over 120 stores nationwide. We’re driven by a passion to improve the homes and lives of our customers by always searching for and creating not only beautiful and exciting designs, but products that are innovative and gentle on the environment.

Our care for and commitment to our residential customers extends to our trade, wholesale and commercial customers too. We show them the most cost-effective and energy-efficient ways to light up or cool down their business through Beacon Lighting Commercial, Light Source Solutions, Masson For Light, and our international operations in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Germany, USA and China.

Please attach your resume and a small sample of your folio (no larger than 5MB). You will be unable to attach separate PDF files so it’s important that you save your resume and folio as one file to upload.

**Please Note**

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