Associate Creative Director

This digital agency is looking to strengthen its team with a Digital Associate Creative Director who can both shape and lead the integrated ideation output across its wide-ranging client base.

Reporting into the ECD this is an exciting opportunity to step into a leadership role where you can shape and influence both the agency and its output as we continue to grow.

In exchange we are seeking someone who understands brands, has a truly integrated background and a proven track record in delivering exciting, progressive and effective creative ideas and has most likely won an award or two along the way to prove it.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

IDEATION AND THINKING

• You have experience leading and encouraging others in the ideation creative process
• You demonstrate a keen awareness of both online and offline trends
• You are a strong conceptual thinker that knows how to get to the heart of a creative challenge and build compelling brand stories
• You are experienced in creating integrated creative concepts across a variety of brands and across all channels including digital, experiential and print and the occasional film.

COMMUNICATION AND PRESENTATION

• You are a confident communicator with good presentation and negotiation skills that ensure your team’s ideas get buy-in from both internal and client audiences
• You get under the skin of your clients’ brands becoming a trusted partner to them and drive their creative strategy

LEADERSHIP AND ORGANISATIONAL

• You are comfortable leading a small team of creatives across multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines
• You are a strong mentor who can use your experience to develop and grow those in your team

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Managing and growing a small team of Art Directors/Copywriters in creating exciting creative ideas which answer the brief.
• Supporting and mentoring team members to ensure on-going development
• Developing and implementing a structure to deliver strategic creative projects and using this structure to oversee projects from brief to final delivery

ABOUT YOU:

• You will have proven experience at recognised agencies doing great work
• You are looking for an opportunity to build on or extend your passion for leading the creative process and to build a team into an effective creative force
• You will be truly passionate about creating great work
• You will have experience of developing, implementing and driving effective and award-winning campaigns that excite, innovate and deliver results

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