Head of Creative Studio - Midrand at Dis-Chem Pharmacies

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

Essential: 

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

• South African citizen
• MIE, clear criminal and credit
• Driver’s license and/or own reliable transport  

Remuneration and benefits:

• Market related salary
• Medical aid
• Provident fund
• Staff account 

Closing Date 29 September 2026