Creative Studio Manager

Welcome to IBG!IBG (Innovative Beauty Group) is a global one-stop beauty shop. By partnering with our clients as an extension of their teams we bring beauty visions to life. IBG consists of more than 300 colleagues spread over 13 locations worldwide.

IBG North America specializes in turnkey solutions private label and packaging in the beauty industry. Together we are concept builders and boosters with global opportunities for well-known retailers and brands.

Centdegrés is building a new kind of creative studio in North America one that operates at the intersection of strategy design content and product innovation.

We are currently looking for a Creative Studio Manager to bring structure predictability and momentum to a fast-paced high-volume creative and production environment. Youll be the center of the studio managing the flow of projects from brief through delivery balancing priorities and resources and ensuring teams have the clarity and support they need to deliver high-quality work on time.

This is a hands-on role for someone who understands how creative work gets made and thrives in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects brands and deadlines in motion. It requires strong judgment excellent communication and the ability to manage complexity with confidence in a growing matrixed organization. The ideal candidate will have experience with production design artwork adaptation or hands-on creative production as there may be times when youll roll up your sleeves to support the team during busy periods.

This is for an existing vacancy.

In this role you will:

• Own and manage end-to-end studio workflow across multiple brands channels and project types (e.g. packaging in-store digital social retailer sell-in materials).

• Intake triage and prioritize requests from cross-functional partners (Brand Sales Trade Marketing eCommerce Product Development) to ensure clear briefs and realistic timelines.

• Build maintain and communicate project timelines schedules and trackers ensuring all stakeholders are aligned on milestones dependencies and critical paths.

• Coordinate resources across design content production and copy teams making informed decisions on capacity sequencing and trade-offs.

• Allocate and reallocate resources based on evolving business priorities volume peaks and launch calendars.

• Monitor team capacity and utilization flagging risks early and recommending solutions (reprioritization timelines external resources).

• Manage freelancer and external vendor engagement as needed including onboarding scoping and integration into studio workflows.

• Partner closely with Creative Marketing Brand and Project/Account leads to align on priorities scope and deliverables.

• Facilitate regular status and production meetings ensuring clear next steps owners and due dates.

• Act as a central point of contact for project status escalating issues and proposing solutions proactively.

• Help define document and evolve studio processes standards and ways of working as we scale.

• Leverage and optimize project management tools to drive transparency efficiency and reporting.

• Identify bottlenecks recurring issues and inefficiencies and lead improvements that support speed quality and consistency.

• Contribute to building a high-performing collaborative studio culture grounded in clarity accountability and collaboration

About you:

• 4 years of experience within a creative agency in-house studio or fast-paced creative/production environment with experience managing creative workflow timelines resources and competing priorities.

• Hands on experience with production design artwork production packaging adaptation or hands-on creative execution is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of concurrent projects with competing deadlines and stakeholders.

• Strong organizational planning and time-management skills with meticulous attention to detail.

• Proven experience with project management platforms (e.g. Asana Monday Wrike Workfront) and comfort working with dashboards trackers and reports.

• Excellent communication skillsable to communicate clearly diplomatically and confidently with creative teams marketers and senior stakeholders.

• Calm and solutions-oriented under pressureyou bring structure and clarity to ambiguity and fast-moving environments.

• Strong judgment and decision-making skills; you are comfortable making calls prioritizing and holding timelines.

• Experience in CPG beauty retail or consumer brands is an asset but not required.

What we offer

You will enjoy being part of an energetic and hands-on team excited about beauty and home care. You will work with passionate and talented colleagues who inspire and support each other. We have fun and celebrate successes together but we are also not afraid to roll up our sleeves and get the job done.

On top of that you will get:

• A competitive total rewards package with a salary range of $70000-$85000 depending on experience

• A comprehensive health/dental and retirement savings plan with employer match

• To work in a hybrid environment with the opportunity to work 2 days remotely

• An international working environment full of energy beauty and growth

• Opportunities to grow both personally and professionally.

• Of course a great bunch of colleagues.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled tools may be used to support certain aspects of the recruitment process. While these tools assist our teams our use of AI does not replace human decision making and all final hiring decisions are made by authorized human personnel.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and all employees have the opportunity to thrive. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences and encourage applications from individuals of all races ethnicities religions genders sexual orientations ages abilities and other identities. If you require accommodation at any stage of the hiring process please let us know by contacting us atso we can work with you to meet your needs.