Creative Director / Senior Art Director (Part time 3 days a week)
SEEN Group Values:
• Creativity
• Inclusivity
• Positivity
• Excellence
The Opportunity
This role is at the heart of the SEEN Works division working closely with our Divisional Director, Associate Beauty Director and design team to lead creative direction across our brands. You will partner with our Clients and team to provide the best creative and strategic solutions across our roster of world class Beauty Brands to originate ideas so inspiring they elevate perceptions of Beauty.
Your role will be fully integrated working across all internal teams to lead the development and delivery of creative content and experiences across all channels.
This is an opportunity to work across some of the world’s strongest Beauty brands so you will need to be an ambitious and commercially minded Creative Director.
The work you do will place us ahead of our competition and encourage our internal teams and clients to boldly pursue innovative ideas that translate into outstanding creative and experiences consumers will remember.
The role
- You will be working to set the creative vision and aesthetic agenda for our clients – both at a brand and campaign level.
- You will work collaboratively to translate strategy and insight into stand out creative concepts which transcend multiple channels.
- You will work across SEEN Group to deliver excellent creative solutions to meet client needs, in partnership with strategy, client services, production and other internal teams
- You will work with our clients and wider SEEN Group teams to understand the real business problems to solve with creative and cut through solutions.
- You will present and articulate visions, strategies and technologies to clients from marketing executives to Board level
- You will establish your own relationships with key clients. Actively work to unlock briefs from new and existing clients
- You will be responsible for developing creative solutions on communication, planning and pitches across brands and teams
- You are always thinking ahead, aligning your creative vision to the structure, vision and future of the business
- You will be responsible for design direction and lead vision / innovation workshop activities
- You will be responsible for Inspiring and leading the creative vision across Direct Reports and all SEEN Group team.
- You will be responsible for contributing to creative direction on new business pitches. Driving the process from start to finish, ensuring that we deliver first class creative work.
- Being a leader and advocate of the group creative process – ensuring the process is used efficiently and improved where there are challenges.
- To help grow the agency’s reputation and strive to develop work that wins awards and is stand out in Beauty.
- Leading multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines
- Evaluating and, if necessary, altering, the content of projects before completion
To succeed in this role you will demonstrate the following:
- Experience from within an integrated creative agency, ideally involved with Beauty accounts
- Experienced as a media-agnostic creative
- An innovative thinker who is always looking to challenge the work produced to ensure it is of exceptional quality
- Gravitas, a sharp thinker who is big picture savvy
- Instinctive problem solver with a love of complex problems and elegant solutions
- Confident, articulate and persuasive; someone who enjoys sharing and developing ideas.
- A confident and persuasive visual thinker, a skilled crafter and deliverer of presentations
- Highly collaborative and adaptive to working with all disciplines within the agency
- Strong communication skills, with the confidence to push back on clients where appropriate
To learn more about SEEN Group visit seengroup.com* or follow us on Instagram *@seen_group
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday per year, plus additional days off at Christmas and New Year
- Monthly gym membership
- Hybrid Working – 2 office days a week
- 3 Wellness Days
- Mental health support – including chat and video therapy
- Pension contribution
- Private healthcare
- Enhanced family leave package
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