Creative Director - West Midlands, United Kingdom - DRPG

Description

Everyone at DRPG has a purpose and yours is to positively influence others by leading in the creation of highly engaging communications in a multitude of forms.

Your ideas and creative concepts will purposely blow people's minds in a way that succeeds in delivering better than before and beyond the expected.

You love taking fellow team members and clients on the journey with you as you take a project brief and begin to develop it.

You are a true leader when it comes to championing the power of creativity and focus on the value your ideas and those around you will bring to all stakeholders.

You understand audience and brand and you know how to take that deep understanding and turn it into rich experiences, no matter what the industry, country or media.

You're also a fast learner who is a sensational listener with a skill for conquering any challenge whether personal, professional or both.

Ultimately you know what bloody brilliant looks like and your determination to achieve this on every project you lead is unbeatable.

• Creating strategic brand and communication solutions that lead directly to clients smashing their marketing and communications objectives pushing their ROI to the max
• Generating creative ideas and concepts that answer client's briefs. This includes working on branding, internal comms, marcoms, and across all channels; design, live events, exhibition and displays, digital, videos, animation
• Using research and insight, as supplied by our clever inhouse team, to bring the substance to your style; bringing the creative edge to your concepts and strategies
• Organising and running creative development sessions with team members as required
• Taking responsibility and leading in the creation of proposals and client pitch presentations that may involve other team members
• Delivering facetoface pitches to clients including the development of content or assets to support
• Working with the sales teams, account teams and production teams to develop concepts and support in the development and creation of proposal activities, including writing and presenting cohesive and persuasive rationales for client projects
• Researching creative concepts and collating relevant information to help the development of ideas and formulated concepts
• Leading other members of the team from all departments, including suppliers, to ensure a quality response is delivered to a high standard, and to time
• Directing the production of any support services required to deliver a client's response, and during the period of the project to completion
• Providing a flexible and adaptable approach to work, moulding to, and influencing client ways of working
• Ensuring that our high quality of creative and production is upheld, maintaining consistently high standards for yourself and others in the team
• Proactively increasing the creative capabilities of the
  DRPG brand and team
• Ensuring internal and external brand compliance. Keeping up to date with resources and changes

This list is not exhaustive, and you will be expected to work flexibly and undertake other such duties as the management may, from time to time, reasonably require.

• Must have at least five years creative experience
• Must possess a thorough understanding of B2C and B2B communications and delivery systems, processes, and industry best practices
• A strong working knowledge of brand and comms strategy for internal and external audiences, including all activation channels, advertising, DM, social, events, experiential, video, print and digital channels
• Above the line experience advantageous
• Highly experienced in creatively leading projects from concept to completion with attention to detail and understanding of objectives
• A clear understanding of the importance and relevance of a client's brand
• Ability to make evaluative judgments both in delivery and commerciality, and ensure that projects are viable and deliverable within the agreed budget
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with strong listening skills
• Ability to coordinate, supervise and help upskill other team members, to include organising, prioritising, and scheduling work assignments
• Highly competent creative thinker and problem solver
• Responsible ownership who gains trust from others.
• Must be computer literate. Competent at using Word, PowerPoint and Keynote.
• Selfmotivated with the ability to work well independently and as part of a team with an adaptable approach to work
• Willingness to learn new skills and develop existing ones
• Positive attitude towards challenging situations and multitasking
• Be able to work under pressure o