Creative Director- Copy

You are the driving force on every project; an integrated problem solver at heart, with an intuitive knack of creating beautifully simple products and experiences. You see ambition and greatness in every brief and never tire of pushing the work to be better with digital and experience at the heart of all. You build relationships with your clients, guiding them through the complexities of creative concepting, design development and production. You can oversee and inspire multidisciplinary teams from the initial briefing to the final delivery. You know that collaboration and team work is the key to every successful project.

Responsibilities

• Working with the Chief Creative Officer to stand as a rallying point for creative excellence.
• Lead creative teams across multiple projects and on-going timelines, you will personally ensure final deliverables meet our standards and client expectations.
• Strong ability to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short- and long-term need. Timelines, budgets, and availabilities change—we need someone who can roll with it.
• Help shape the creative department, manage and mentor junior members of the team and play a key role in business development
• Brainstorm visual and copy ideas with other members of the creative department

·       Is an origin  for  strong  conceptual  and  strategic  directions  to  meet  the communication needs of our clients/brands whilst maintaining the brand’s truth

·       Respects  the  line  between  creative  expression  and  commercial  reality  to ensure delivery of the right creative solution

·       Ensure development of ideas/concepts capable of delivery and implementation in multiple channels

·       Create and develop a brand idea over time and become the ‘guardian’ of that brand idea

·       Provide constructive, specific and intelligible feedback in creative reviews

·       Use personal expertise to draw out the best possible creative ideas to deliver against creative brief ‐ focus the team's ideas to come up with a relevant and beautiful solution to the client's brief

·       Contribute to raising the overall creative standards for the agency

·       Produce high profile, effective and award -winning work for clients thereby helping to raise the overall creative standards of the agency and attract new brands and clients

·       Keep up to date with new technologies, rapidly evolving cultural and social trends to ensure our clients benefit from ideas relevant to the target audience and improved creative output

·       Develop digital knowledge and skills across the department and agency

·       Maintain the highest standards of creativity and quality throughout the development and implementation of all work

• Build on the agency's reputation for igniting the right conversational for clients

Client management

·       Present innovative creative ideas and concepts to client; provide stimulus to help client visualize the creative idea

·       Build a strong rationale for selling‐in creative work ‐ prepare to fight to retain integrity of core concept and provide the appropriate rationale for defense

·       Modify creative concept, if necessary, until the client is satisfied

·       Present final creative ideas to client; ensure client is on board with creative idea

·       Absorb all aspects of the client's business, understand the local market trends and external factors and then identify creative opportunities

·       Regularly counsel clients on creative issues ‐ be a respected advisor

• Provide direction to a compelling creative strategy or solution

Production

·       Regularly attend all pre‐production meetings, with agency departments and client, on all projects

·       Choose the photographer, illustrator, voice‐over, cast talent, film‐maker/director to work on campaign(s); select the music for client’s product

·       Visit and assess locations for potential shoots; select props/wardrobing

·       Provide ongoing direction to Designer and the selection and/or refinement of the final creative product

·       Ensure that all projects irrelevant of the client, brand or budget are produced to an excellent standard

·       Liaise between director, Producer, Integration Director to ensure production is all to client expectations and to agreements in PPM (pre‐production meeting)

• Provide ongoing direction to Designer and the selection and/or refinement of the final creative product
• Ensure that all projects irrelevant of the client, brand or budget are produced to an excellent standard
• Oversee the final edit of all adverts for presentation to the client
• Present final edited version to client for approval

Management/team development

• Develop others to generate conversation changing ideas that continually contribute to a brand's success
• Form a productive and successful creative partnership to conceive, develop and produce effective communications campaigns for clients
• Build, manage and develop team members careers ‐ identify opportunities for growth
• Provide regular constructive feedback to direct reports
• Inspire and encourage creativity
• Meet with creative teams to check the status on current projects and assign new projects
• Ensure creative teams’ delivery creative solutions to deadlines and within the scope of the budget

Management of budgets & timings

• Produce award winning creative work that gets results (within strict time allocations and within budget)
• Support the traffic/production process and adhere to any time planning agreed with Creative Services ‐ briefing, creative time, interim reviews and final reviews
• Maintain an awareness of budget limitations/project profitability and ensure creative solutions work within these limit

 The ideal candidates will have:

Creative Excellence

·       Is a major contributor to making creative solutions that ignite the right conversations

Communication Skills

·       Excellent command of the local language

·       Strong communications skills, both verbally and in writing

·       Able to effectively present information, is able to engage audiences, deal with questions, exudes confidence and provide cohesive and persuasive rationale for campaign approaches

Client Relationships

·       Able to work with and sell great creative ideas to all levels in both multinational and local client organizations

People and Teams

• Demonstrates professional respect with all team members