Studio: Art&Graft
Job Opening: Studio Manager
Location: Bankside, London, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Providing the first point of contact for the company to all visitors, phone calls, deliveries and other incoming inquiries.
- Maintaining the functionality and appearance of the studio and building, maintaining the alarms and security, heating & cooling, office equipment, managing the cleaner, ordering general office supplies and sundries.
- Open up and securely close the studio, ensuring all alarms are on. You will be responsible for the building’s security and operations, as the main key holder.
- Regularly, test and maintain alarms, fob entry system, emergency lighting, services and facilities and resolve any issues or action repairs that may arrise.
- Run annual fire drills, assist with evacuation and make new employees aware.
- Maintain an awareness of the development of studio’s systems and best practice, with a view to improving the studio’s productivity and accountability as time goes on.
- Maintain a proactive approach by continually reviewing, streamlining and finding cost effective solutions to the facilities, supplies, utilities, systems, equipment and the use of it, including software and IT, to improve the studio process, best practice, accountability and productivity within in the studio.
- Ensure contents records are up to date and assist the CEO with insurance renewals and ad hoc film production insurance packages.
- Preparing the studio for meetings, providing refreshment etc
- Ensuring all meeting rooms are in perfect order at all times – AV working seamlessly and everything clean and tidy.
- Supplier, utilities, & service provider management and development. Build strong and positive relationships with suppliers, constantly striving to obtain competitive quotes, and optimise profitability.
- Studio management responsibilities including software updating, printer and office supplies, stationery, paper, postage and couriers, cleaner, and the recycling system, sundries orders etc.
- Filing, record keeping and document management.
Qualifications & Skills:
- You are responsible, proactive, resourceful, motivated, diligent, capable, methodical, technically adept, creatively curious, super-organized and 100% reliable.
- Great communication skills and a brilliant relationship builder.
- Passionate about the creative industry and animation in particular; tenacious in doing the best job for the client.
- Proactive self-starter with a focused attention to detail.
- Technically adept but not expert.
- Excellent self-organization and time management; can cope with a number of sometimes conflicting tasks at the same time.
- Comfortable working as part of a team; able to deal with conflict effectively.
- Prepared to sometimes work more than standard hours at short notice to get the job done.
