Creative Director- Copy

at  SAATCHI SAATCHI

Job Description
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.

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

• 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