Head of Retouching - Sky Creative

Head of Retouching - Sky Creative United Kingdom

Sky
Full Time United Kingdom 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
We’re looking for an outstanding Head of Retouching to join Sky Creative Agency’s Advertising Design team
https://www.skycreative.uk/
Reporting into the Creative Director for Advertising, this is a senior role leading a team of hard-working retouchers across a variety Sky business verticals. You will be responsible for the output coming from the retouching team, both internal and external resources!
What you'll do:
  • Working alongside the CD of Design to drive the quality of our advertising campaigns to award winning standards
  • Have a meticulous eye for detail and a passion for pushing yours and your teams work above and beyond to create work that stops you in your tracks
  • Successfully manage and produce multiple deadline driven projects whilst maintaining the utmost in accuracy and the highest visual quality
  • Lead and manage a highly skilled team of internal retouchers and oversee workflows and quality of work from a range of external contractors
  • Drive the direction and vision of the retouching department with a collaborative and mentor focused attitude
  • Management of retouching workflow with the retouching resource manager, ensuring the best people are working on the correct jobs
  • Drive relationships with external resources and ensure standards are kept high to assist the team in periods of overflow
  • Assist with the scoping of project requirements, workflows, timings and deliverables with resource and production departments
  • Work with the Head of Artwork to ensure smooth-flow final delivery of print and digital assets for campaigns
  • Deliver against a clear set of agreed business and personal objectives
What you'll bring:
  • Unrivalled industry leading experience as a head of retouching to inspire a highly proficient team and recruit the best in the market to join you!
  • A great teammate with a positive outlook who can inspire
  • Ability to create a positive team culture with a supportive platform for development
  • Extensive experience with 2D/3D CGI project work
  • Extensive shoot knowledge
  • Excellent communication skills within all relevant parties in a face paced studio
  • Problem solving with high levels of personal motivation
  • Extensive industry contacts and comms which will help aid your team management and product
  • Experience working with dedicated workflow tools is a plus but not essential
Team Overview
Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple partners across our European Markets. From rebranding Sky Sports to designing key art and creating large-scale ATL campaigns for Sky’s commissions and original productions, we are uniquely placed to offer our people a huge range of exciting and diverse opportunities.
We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and market. We’re committed to delivering brilliant creative, made by people that love what they do.
The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
  • Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
  • A generous pension package
  • Private healthcare
  • Discounted mobile and broadband
  • Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Your office base:
Osterley:
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.
On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Inclusion:
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, and we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Why wait?
Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.
To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.
Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

Head of Retouching - Sky Creative
Sky

careers.sky.com
Isleworth, United Kingdom
Dana Strong
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
1989
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