Creative Operations Manager

MOTHER ROOT ✸

Creative Operations Manager at Mother Root overseeing production and delivery of creative assets. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and quality execution of marketing initiatives.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Run the engine that turns briefs into the creative that sells bottles.
Reporting to the Head of Brand and Campaigns, you’ll own how creative gets made: how briefs come in, how they’re prioritised, who works on them, on what timeline, on what budget, against what success measure, and how learnings come back into the next brief.
You sit between Growth, Brand and Campaigns, and the people who make the work: designers, video and motion editors, photographers, producers, the Creative Strategist, and the Co-Creative Leads themselves.
Own creative throughput and on-time/on-budget delivery as your scorecard.
Own the single intake process. Every paid, email, organic, web, retail and PR creative request comes through you.
Triage and route briefs to the right team based on type, urgency, complexity and capacity.
Own the performance creative pipeline end-to-end: paid social, paid search creative variants, display, affiliate and partnership assets.
Manage the freelance roster: designers, photographers, DPs, motion editors, producers, stylists.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A creative operator who has lived in performance creative.
You’ve sat next to a performance team and shipped paid social, email, and digital campaign creative at volume.
Fluent in workflow tools. Particularly Notion (databases, views, automations, templates), Claude and Slack automations.
Brilliant at sizing creative work. You can scope a project with designers, video and motion editors, and production teams before it kicks off.
You’ve sat in pre-pro and on photo shoots, so you know what a realistic call sheet looks like.
A prioritisation engine. You can hold five conflicting briefs in your head, surface the trade-offs in one sentence, and get a clean decision out of two strong creative leads.
Operationally precise. Budgets reconcile. Invoices get paid. Day rates are documented. Freelancers come back because you’re a pleasure to work with.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Share Options Programme
Hybrid working: 3 x a week in office (Mon, Tues, Thurs) & 2 from home
Annual Leave: 25 days per year
Summer Hours: Early finish Fridays (June–August)
Work From Anywhere: Up to 2 weeks per year
Pension: 5% matched contribution
Cycle Scheme: Bike or Lime/Forest Pass
Personal Development: £300 annual allowance for approved training
Wellbeing Support: Access to Spill app & Heka allowance (£40/month) + birthday/work anniversary boosts
Annual Team Trip: Gastronomical & wellbeing-focused team away trip
Parental Leave: Competitive maternity/paternity package
Lots of free Mother Root

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Hard Skills & Tools

performance creativecreative throughputproject scopingcreative pipeline managementbudget reconciliationinvoice managementcreative asset developmentcampaign creative productiondigital campaign executioncreative request triage

Soft Skills

prioritizationoperational precisiondecision makingcommunicationcollaborationproblem solvingcreativitytime managementadaptabilityinterpersonal skills