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Creative Operations Manager

LorienBracknell, Berkshire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 27 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Creative Operations Manager

Hybrid - Bracknell

Inside IR35

3 - 6 month contract

Our client, one of the UK's top retailers, are looking for a Creative Operations Manager to join them on a contract basis.

Primary Outcomes & Accountabilities

  • Manage and align incoming briefs (planned and ad-hoc) to strategic brand objectives and plan.
  • Distill all briefs for Creative and Content, ensuring all activities are watertight before briefing the partner agency.
  • Act as the day-to-day interface with the partner agency's client services team, problem-solving and championing change.
  • Leverage insight, data reporting, and KPI measurement to inform decision-making.
  • Manage the content operations budget and P&L, including planning, forecasting, and period-end reporting.
  • Manage internal stakeholders and champion new processes and ways of working.
  • Act as the gatekeeper and provide production oversight for creative briefs alongside the partner agency. (to note this does not include advertising, publishing or podcasts)
  • Facilitate strategic project creative output through the hybrid studio.
  • Support internal adoption of the content orchestration technology platform.
  • Actively engage with change and create the conditions for the hybrid model to thrive.

Measures of Success

  • Content delivered to brief, schedule, and budget.
  • Accurate financial reporting.
  • Achievement of efficiency targets and year-on-year gains.
  • Positive relationships between brief owners, vendors, and creative teams.
  • Effective presentation and feedback to senior management.
  • Successful performance management of the partner agency.

To apply for this opportunity please submit your CV.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Skills

Financial Reporting
Forecasting
Performance Management

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