Head of Studio

**Req ID**: 66005
**Department**: AR Marketing Go To Market
**Division**: Australia Retail
**Location**: Sydney
About the role

At ANZ our purpose is to shape a world where people and communities thrive. We’re making this happen by improving our customers’ financial wellbeing so they can achieve incredible things - be it buying their home, building a business or saving for things big or small.

The ANZ Retail Marketing team is in the process of undergoing transformational change to insource an in-house creative studio. As a result of this exciting change, an opportunity has become available for a lead to oversee the creative and production vision for ANZ Retail Australia.

Leading ANZ’s internal creative and production studio, you will have oversight of all creative developed by the studio, aligning to brand strategy, and maintaining brand identity. You will also provide counsel and thought leadership on the production process across all major integrated campaigns.

Using your deep knowledge of MarTech solutions to support creative asset development, workflow and traffic management and asset storage, you will be tasked with improving the quality, effectiveness and consistency of advertising and marketing communication production processes and outputs across all channels.

Deep expertise relating to the production process and creative development is critical to ensure you help nurture, develop, and educate the wider marketing cohort uplifting knowledge and confidence across the function.

A key part of the role is the leadership of a full-service creative team comprising of Designers, Content Leads, Video Motion designers, Account Managers, and Production Specialist to deliver quality creative assets to market.

The development and implementation of the Studio Capability Roadmap is critical as a key objective and focus of the role is to continuously increase the level and type of support, particularly as it relates to digital asset and AV development.

**Role Location**: 833 Pitt Street Sydney, NSW 2000
**Role Type**: Permanent, Full-Time

What will your day look like

**This role is accountable for**:
Creative Direction
- Creative oversight of all assets produced by the studio including internal pitches and proposals, ensuring strategic and visual brand alignment deliver quality outcomes.
- Overseeing art direction from conception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time and within scope.
- Continuously stay abreast of design trends nationally and globally to drive innovation, differentiation and showcasing these insights to the wider marketing team.
- Interpreting and translating briefs from the marketing team into the studio to begin the creative process to deliver best in class creative efficiently.
- Embodying strong creative vision, innovation, and direction to meet business needs and objectives.
- Presenting ideas and concepts to internal stakeholders with well thought out and justifiable rationale.

Studio Operations
- Investigate, implement, and own MarTech technology to support asset development, workflow management and asset storage.
- Co-ordination of workflow management, resource planning and keeping projects on schedule.
- Act as a liaison between the marketing team and external agencies, facilitating effective communication.

Studio Production
- Collaborating with and providing thought leadership to cross-functional teams on the production process for all integrated campaigns, with the ability to interrogate processes and provide recommendations to achieve a successful outcome in an efficient manner.
- Liaising with production suppliers for production of print and outdoor material, discussing print specs and providing post-production feedback.
- Source estimates and ensure high quality output is delivered on time and on budget.


Business Performance
- Develop a studio roadmap and implement strategies to grow the internal capability across the business.
- Monitor, analyse and report on monthly performance of the team to ensure the in-house studio meets or exceeds business savings targets and translating the economic value into long term strategic financial decisions.
- Administering business practices to create the highest level of efficiency possible, including status reports and team performance.
- Establish and maintain robust processes to ensure risk frameworks are compliant including stringent quality control measures and adherence to quality assurance standards.

Leadership
- Lead, inspire and coach the newly formed ANZ internal studio team setting a high standard for visual excellence.
- Provide day-to-day direction and management to fulfil team objectives and achieve specific goals to maximise efficiency and make improvements as needed.
- Manage and mentor current team with ability to grow the design team to increase overall in-house productivity.
- Lead the team in finding creative solutions to design challenges and remain agile to changing work requirements.
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