Creative Production Manager

Working at Stella McCartney is a truly rewarding experience. As a luxury fashion company with a strong ethical standpoint we are leaders and innovators in our industry.

Overview

The Creative Production Manager plays a pivotal role in bringing the brand's visual identity to life across campaigns, lookbooks, ecommerce and marketing channels. Reporting to the Chief Marketing & Brand Image Officer, this role combines creative thinking with exceptional organisation to ensure every visual asset reflects the brand's positioning.

Working across creative production, image selection, casting and shoot planning, the Creative Production Manager is responsible for coordinating the operational delivery of the brand's imagery whilst contributing to its creative direction. With ecommerce production managed by external partners, the role focuses on elevating brand image, supporting styling and visual concepts, managing creative assets and owning the end-to-end casting process for all campaigns and lookbook.

Your Mission:

Creative Image Production

• Manage the end-to-end delivery of all brand imagery across campaigns, lookbooks and ecommerce.
• Own image selection, cropping, retouching feedback and final asset approval.
• Alongside the Graphics team, work closely with photographers and retouchers to achieve the desired creative vision.
• Maintain consistency across all visual assets and brand guidelines.
• Support creative direction and visual concept development for shoots.

Casting & Talent Management

• Own all model casting across campaigns, lookbooks and ecommerce.
• Build and maintain relationships with agencies and freelance talent.
• Research new faces and casting trends that align with the brand aesthetic.
• Organise castings, fittings and approvals.
• Manage talent bookings, negotiations and contracts.

Creative Development & Shoot Planning

• Coordinate creative shoot schedules and timelines.
• Work alongside external production partners to ensure assets meet brand expectations.
• Support with moodboards and creative concepts, researching competitors and trends.
• Support styling preparation.
• Oversee location sourcing, prop sourcing and shoot logistics.
• Ensure creative briefs are executed successfully.

Sample & Asset Coordination

• Align correct samples needed for the Ecom buy (while checking needs for the Retail buy)
• Manage sample movement for shoots, alongside PR team
• Ensure the correct type of product assets are captured for all webpage needs 
• Work closely with Design, Merchandising and Production teams to ensure samples arrive on time.
• Coordinate product lists and shot lists.
• Track asset delivery and image libraries.

Creative Operations

• Build efficient workflows for creative asset production.
• Manage multiple concurrent creative projects.
• Support budget tracking where required.
• Identify opportunities to improve creative processes.

Your Talent:

This role would suit someone looking to develop their career within creative image, styling and brand campaigns, combining strong operational skills with a genuine passion for luxury fashion imagery

• Proven experience within fashion image production, creative operations, campaign production or brand image.
• Strong eye for fashion imagery and composition
• Experience with Adobe Photoshop
• Excellent image selection skills
• Confident working with photographers and retouchers
• Passion for supporting with styling and creative storytelling
• Experience managing campaign and lookbook model castings
• Solid budget management and financial tracking experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding of creative workflows across photography, video, design, and events.
• Experience managing freelancers, agencies, or production partners
• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail
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Reward

Our philosophy is to go beyond monetary return and consider ourselves responsible for your wellbeing, your family, your health, your time and the community.

• Up to 50% discount on Stella McCartney products

• Matched pension contribution up to 6%

• Extensive private medical and critical illness insurance, as well as life assurance

• Annual Health Screening

• 25 days annual leave (not including Bank Holidays) + 1 day of Birthday leave

• Flexible working/core hours

• Enhanced Maternity/paternity packages

• Matched Give as You Earn charity scheme

• Discounted gym and fitness memberships (Classpass) 

• Health cash plan

• Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support Services

• Employee referral bonus

• Optional/ Paid Benefits: Season ticket loan, cycle to work and tech schemes, travel and dental insurance and much more.

We welcome people with disabilities and endeavour to make reasonable adjustments, if you do require such adjustments please let us know within 48 hours of your interview.

At Stella McCartney, we like to be bold. For us this means challenging ourselves and the wider industry in which we operate. As part of our commitments to inclusive fashion, we have an ambitious strategy to put diversity, equity and inclusion at the centre of everything we do. Our starting point is to create a workplace where different voices are respected, heard and empowered in equal measure regardless of factors such as culture and backgrounds, and to influence and disrupt fashion and other industries by providing opportunities for global diverse talent to shine.