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Creative Director
Remuneration: | market-related |
Location: | Sandton |
Job level: | Junior |
Type: | Contract |
Reference: | #CREATIVEDIRECTORHLJH |
Company: | TBWA South Africa |
Role profile
Job title:
Creative director
Key purpose:
Develop strong relationships with both existing and potential clients, gaining a deep understanding of the brands under management to interrogate any brief or strategy effectively. Guide clients, creative teams, and production to deliver world-class strategy, ideas, execution, and results.
1) Strategic responsibilities (clients)
- Define and support the desired corporate vision and values, utilising disruptive methods when appropriate.
- Set the optimal strategic direction aligned with the corporate vision, using disruptive techniques when possible.
- Assist executive creative directors in building the creative reputation of Hunt Lascaris.
- Take accountability for ensuring all creative output consistently meets high-quality standards.
- Lead creative teams to produce and craft original and impactful ideas, art direction, and copy, proactively or in response to briefs.
- Present creative work clearly, professionally, and impactfully, both internally and externally.
- Stay informed on trends, popular culture, and relevant ideas to ensure the work remains innovative and contemporary.
- Demonstrate a passion for continual refinement and improvement of craft.
- Contribute to enhancing the company’s reputation through local and international awards.
- Maintain strong relations with senior members of client teams.
- Collaborate with strategy and account management to manage creative team expectations and seek opportunities to improve the work.
- Work with strategy and account management to understand the client’s brand, helping manage projects that support the delivery of iconic work.
- Foster collaboration within the creative department and across other Hunt Lascaris departments.
- Develop and nurture client relationships to support the delivery of outstanding creative work.
- Help schedule work efficiently, prioritising workload within creative teams to meet client expectations.
- Participate in new business pitches and business development as needed.
- Promote positive sentiment internally and externally to uphold the reputation of Hunt Lascaris.
- Serve as an inspirational role model.
- Help shape the creative department to meet the evolving needs of Hunt Lascaris and its clients.
- Communicate business goals to teams and articulate the creative contribution of these goals to the chief creative officer or executive creative directors.
- Inspire, coach, and guide creative teams to foster individual and collective improvement.
- Support proactive recruitment and staff development.
- Assist in setting objectives for the department and in managing budgets.
- Lead accurate work time recording for yourself and your teams.
- Over five years as a creative director in a leading creative agency or company with the capability to generate, guide, sell, and produce world-class ideas for Hunt Lascaris and its clients.
- Exceptional creative ability
- Strong leadership skills
- Proficient presentation skills
- Strategic thinking
- Diverse creative skills (art, copy, and beyond)
- Decisive and clear communicator
- Technical understanding of TV and content production, edits, sound, music, voice, and direction
Influence and thought leadership, lecturing experience, blog or editorial skills, poetry, After Effects, 3D rendering, illustration, editing, design, songwriting, sound production, or artistic skills.
Behavioural attributes:
Inspirational, ambitious, determined, courageous, collaborative, creatively expressive, adaptable, with a strong sense of accountability for the accounts and work managed.
Posted on 28 Oct 12:20, Closing date 26 Nov
We develop business-changing, culture-defining and award winning ideas for brands. Ranked in the top 3 regional networks in Africa and consistently in the top 10 global agencies.
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