Head of Creative Studio - Midrand

Dis-Chem Pharmacies · Gauteng

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Job Description

Dis-Chem Pharmacies has an opportunity available for a Head of Creative Studio for their Head Office.The Head of Creative Studio leads Dis-Chem's internal creative agency, providing strategic creative leadership across all marketing channels.
The role ensures high-quality, brand-aligned, and commercially impactful campaigns, spanning in-store signage, promotional materials, packaging, digital content, social media, video, animation, photography, copywriting, and campaigns.
The Head drives the creative vision, guides the team, and collaborates with internal stakeholders and external agencies to deliver exceptional creative outputs.

Minimum Requirements…

Essential

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.
Proven experience delivering impactful campaigns and leading high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

Creative vision and leadership

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

Strategic campaign oversight

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.

Team and resource management

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

Stakeholder and agency collaboration

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

Competencies

Key competencies

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

Key Performance Indicators

Creative Impact: Campaigns are innovative, engaging, and commercially effective
Brand Consistency: All outputs comply with brand and messaging standards
Team Leadership: High-performing, collaborative, and motivated creative team
Timely Delivery: Projects delivered according to marketing campaign schedules
Agency Integration: Efficient management of external agency resources where needed
Stakeholder Satisfaction: Positive feedback from marketing, retail, social, and promotions teams.

Special Conditions of Employment

Closing Date 29 September 2026