Dr. Barbara Sturm, Campaign & Content Director

The Opportunity

Dr. Barbara Sturm is looking for a senior creative leader to join the Brand & Creative team as Campaign & Content Director on a 12 month maternity-cover contract.

Working closely with the Brand & Creative Director, this role will act as the senior day-to-day creative lead across campaigns and content, with particular ownership of photography, film, video, content production and post-production.

The Campaign & Content Director will lead the development of global brand and product campaigns from initial concept through to final delivery, while managing the content and production teams and maintaining a strong creative eye across the wider Brand & Creative output.

This is a highly creative, hands-on role for someone with exceptional visual judgement, strong production experience and the confidence to lead teams, direct shoots and make senior creative decisions.

What you'll get to do

• Lead the creative development of global brand, product and commercial campaigns.
• Translate marketing objectives, product innovation and brand strategy into distinctive creative concepts and visual worlds.
• Lead photography, film, video and content production from concept through shoot, post-production and final delivery.
• Creatively direct shoots and productions in the UK and internationally.
• Manage and develop the Content, Video/Post-Production and Creative/Digital teams.
• Provide clear creative direction and feedback throughout the development process.
• Lead image selects, edits, retouching and post-production approvals.
• Review priority creative across digital, social, paid media, CRM, retail and visual merchandising to ensure consistency and quality.
• Work closely with Social and Paid Media teams to ensure campaigns are built with social-first and performance considerations from the outset.
• Partner with Marketing, Product Development, Digital, Social, Retail and global markets to deliver cohesive campaign and BAU rollouts.
• Manage agencies, photographers, directors, creators, production companies and other external creative partners.
• Ensure campaigns and content are delivered to the highest creative standard, on time and within agreed budgets.
• Act as a senior brand guardian, escalating key brand-level decisions to the Brand & Creative Director where required.

We'd love to meet you if you have

• Significant senior creative experience within luxury, beauty, fashion or a premium lifestyle brand.
• A strong portfolio of global campaigns, photography, film and content.
• Exceptional visual judgement and a sophisticated understanding of luxury creative.
• Extensive experience leading shoots, productions and post-production.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary creative teams and senior creatives.
• Strong understanding of social-first, digital and performance content.
• Confidence providing senior creative feedback across multiple disciplines.
• Experience managing agencies, photographers, directors and production partners.
• Strong commercial awareness and experience managing production budgets.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.
• The ability to balance creative ambition with commercial objectives, timelines and delivery.

We are looking for someone who is creatively ambitious, decisive, collaborative and highly detail-oriented, with the ability to protect an established brand while continually pushing its creative output forward.

We welcome Creators Of All Kinds. If you are unsure of meeting all the requirements but trust you have the transferable skills to excel in this role, complete the application and our teams will get in touch if you are selected for an interview.

What you'll love about us

• An entrepreneurial, creative and welcoming work culture
• A range of learning and development opportunities
• An international company with plenty of opportunities to grow
• A competitive compensation & benefits package