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Join a creative powerhouse as a Studio Manager and propel your career with Emperor's dedicated team in Dubai
Overview
Salary
No salary declared 😔
Location
103 Colmore Row
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation Summary:
Emperor is a dynamic, employee-owned corporate communications and creative agency, striving to be the go-to for ambitious talent. With a commitment to creating an inclusive environment, Emperor nurtures well-being, embraces diversity, and is on a journey to B-Corp certification, reflecting their dedication to positive societal and environmental impact. Join a company where your great ambitions are matched by a culture that fosters learning, achievement, and a sense of belonging.
- Ensure the effective operation of the Dubai studio, coordinating tasks and deadlines.
- Manage the resourcing of design and artwork teams.
- Maintain communication and process improvements within the team.
- Handle archiving, file management, and keep the studio schedule current.
- Collaborate with IT Support and Head of Operations for studio enhancements.
- Keen attention to detail and strong communication skills.
- Proven ability to manage tight deadlines and high-quality standards.
- Capability to work collaboratively, building positive relationships to meet goals.
- Flexibility, approachability, and a continuous improvement mindset.
- Functional skills necessary to fulfill the role's demands.
Application Process Details:
If shortlisted, the recruitment team will contact you via email. They aim to reach out within 5 working days of application, subject to the volume of applicants. Emperor encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and offers to accommodate any specific recruitment process needs.
About Emperor
Emperor is for your great ambitions. We're an employee-owned corporate communications and creative agency with more than 360 partners specialising in reporting, brand, digital, employee engagement, change and sustainability.
We want to be the agency of choice for ambitious talent. So, we’re looking for brilliant people who actively want to create great things with us.
Our culture is one where you’re free to do, learn and achieve better. We welcome every partner to experience a sense of belonging; whoever you are, wherever you’re working from, whatever your role. Our values guide how we work every day, with each other, our clients, and suppliers. And with our friendly inclusive environment, effort and empathy, we make the feeling real.
Our Pledges represent commitments from Emperor to each partner designed to promote personal and collective wellbeing, plus raise awareness of and address some of the bigger societal and environmental challenges, nurture our unique culture and make the business a healthier and more responsible place to work.
The wellbeing of our partners is a big focus at Emperor which why we have a dedicated Wellbeing and Pledges Manager to ensure our mind and bodies are working in sync to support our great ambitions.
Our employee-owned status helps us see working life differently, purposefully, and collectively. We’re working toward B-Corp and we’re fully committed to responsible business that leaves a positive footprint for our clients, our partners, communities, and society.
The role
Purpose:
The Studio Manager is responsible for ensuring the smooth and effective running of the Dubai studio. The role involves reviewing daily work schedules with all teams, ensuring work is delivered on deadline, keeping all departments informed about project status, flagging any concerns over resource availability and managing production resource within the studio.
Reporting to the MD MENA, the Studio Manager collaborates with the studio team to deliver a range of integrated design solutions to a varied client base in the Middle East.
PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS A FIXED-TERM CONTRACT FROM JANUARY TO MARCH 2025.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Having responsibility for the resourcing of the design and artwork teams, ensuring work is correctly allocated on a daily/hourly basis
- Working with the team to improve process and communication, and deal with issues etc
- Archiving and file management
- Keeping studio schedule up to date
- Liaising with IT Support and Head of Operations regarding ongoing upgrades and studio IT issues
Skills required:
- Excellent attention to detail
- Regularly communicates status of work to team
- Ability to acquire, organise, interpret and evaluate information
- Ability to manage tight deadlines and quality expectations
- Participates and contributes to objectives/work of team
- Builds positive relationships and works with others to achieve goals
- Communicates in a positive and easily understandable way internally and externally
- Approachable, responsive and flexible
- Searches for better ways to meet clients’ needs
- Functional skills to fulfill role
Next Steps
If you are successfully shortlisted for the role, the recruitment team will be in touch via email, and the process will begin from there. We endeavour to contact you within 5 working days of your application, however, this may vary depending on the volume of applications we receive. Good Luck!
As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.
