Role: Production & Studio Manager
Reporting to: Creative Lead
Dependencies: Internal creative, marketing & product teams + photoshoot team
Location/Times: Full time (hybrid). In Chiswick, London 3 days a week, flex rest of week.
Job Purpose: Pivotal in ensuring the smooth running of creative processes, photoshoots, budget and studio operations, acting as the key link between creative, production, and the wider business.
Accountabilities
Creative team & Workflow Management
* Oversee and manage the Creative team’s workload, ensuring all briefs are captured in Asana, deadlines are met, and tasks are delegated effectively across the team.
* Manage critical project timelines, team holiday schedules, regular catchups, and coordination of creative work trips.
* Streamline processes where possible, identifying solutions to challenges and acting as the main point of contact for Creative across the business.
* Support the Creative Lead and Head of Marketing in shaping and delivering creative direction.
* Compile and coordinate creative direction documents, ensuring alignment across the team and business stakeholders.
Photoshoot Leadership
* Maintain and monitor photoshoot/task timelines, catch ups and updates.
* Lead the end-to-end production of photoshoots, from planning through to execution and debrief.
* Manage shoot budgets, from scoping and configuration through to reconciliation.
* Handle all logistics: booking studios, photographers, models, stylists, HMU artists, and catering.
* Distribute briefs to agencies, negotiate rates, and manage contracts, travel, and accommodation with agency support.
* Produce call sheets, confirm availability, and arrange cover for potential last-minute cancellations.
* Liaise with internal teams (Product, Marketing, Buying & Merchandising) to align shoot requirements with business needs.
* Track and communicate shoot progress, ensuring all details (shot counts, CAD screenshots, studio days, etc.) are accounted for and managed.
* Lead shoot debriefs — documenting successes, learnings, and improvements for future shoots.
Launches & Campaign Management
* Maintain and monitor launch asset timelines (e.g. via Asana).
* Coordinate with stakeholders across the business to ensure creative deliverables align with product and marketing milestones.
* Keep key dates in diaries and ensure all relevant teams are informed and aligned.
Management of In-House Studio Space
* Ensure the studio is fully functional, organised, and maintained to a high standard.
* Oversee and coordinate e-commerce shoots within the studio and lead on art direction for ecomm ensuring distictive BAM look & feel runs through all our shots.
* Collaborate with the Social team to maximise studio use for social-first shoots
* Explore opportunities to hire out the studio to external companies during quieter periods.
Requirements:
Experience: Proven experience in production management, studio management, or similar creative operations roles (fashion experience desirable). Budget management experience and confidence handling contracts, invoices, and negotiations.
Organisation: Strong organisational skills, with the ability to juggle multiple projects and deadlines.
Communication: Excellent communicator and relationship builder, comfortable liaising across departments and with external partners.
Proactive: A proactive problem solver who can anticipate challenges and propose solutions quickly.
Passionate: Passion for creativity and an eye for detail, ensuring our shoots and campaigns look their best and run seamlessly.
Personal attributes
• Inspired by working for an ambitious, values driven brand
• Thrives in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and a willingness to be hands-on
• Proactive and resourceful, thinking outside of the box
• Have exceptional communication skills
• Have strong attention to detail
• Excellent time management, prioritising to always deliver on-time, in-full
• A team player and team builder
Everyone is welcome BAM is an equal opportunities employer and actively supports Human Rights, and all Equality legislation.
Our ethos is to respect and value people’s differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as in their personal lives so that they feel proud of the part they play in our success. We are all about transparency, honesty, integrity, and fun. We believe that all decisions about people at work should be based on the individual’s abilities, skills, performance and behaviour and our business requirements.