I'm a Design Studio Manager with strong experience of stakeholder management, workload prioritisation and workflow across multiple creative teams, ensuring brand and messaging consistency. I have 14 years’ experience in managing in-house studios, including 12 years for a blue-chip retail group (Kingfisher) and most recently a Government agency.Areas of expertise:* Brand Guardian with excellent attention to detail, including layout and messaging, across customer touchpoints.* Re-invigorating teams, encouraging engagement, empowerment and pro-activeness.* Bringing agency work in-house to increase budget efficiencies, balancing the need for external creative input and available work hours.* Passionate leader, creating a culture of personal growth, trust and celebrating success.* Good communicator at all levels, using initiative and diplomacy when liaising with internal and external stakeholders.* Implementing and managing new systems, processes and guidelines.* Promoting customer-centric collateral, ensuring the needs of the company and audience are met.* Management of multiple teams in various sites and territories.* Ensuring all collateral on and offline is accessibility compliant.* Defining print specifications for tangible collateral.* Project management including identifying capacities, raising risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID).Before managing studios I worked in design for 16 years.* Designed in-store collateral, catalogues, flyers, direct mailing, billboards, hoardings & bus stops (digital & print), onscreen animations, emails, press and point of sale.* Produced creative for retail and direct marketing, highlighting product USPs and using calls to action to entice customers to purchase products.* Previous commercial and public sector clients include: Make-A-Wish Foundation®UK, Toshiba, Headway Technology, Scotts, HSA (Simply Health), Haringey Borough Council, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, Sentinel Housing Group, Pavilion Housing Group, McLean Events and Time Warner.