Chief Creative Officer

Chief Creative Officer

Full time

Manchester / Hybrid

Award Winning Creative Agency

Excellent Benefits

THE ROLE:

My client is looking for a commercially and creatively outstanding individual to drive their creative vision and develop an exceptional creative department that delivers culturally-impactful, award-winning campaigns for our global clients.

Your job purpose is to be the guardian and executor of their creative vision, responsible for driving creativity across the agency as well as building a high performing creative team, that pushes the boundaries of creativity in order to deliver effective and impactful campaigns for our clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Inspiring big conceptual, social-first, culture-leading campaigns by consulting and advising across the agency, as well as driving action and accountability.
• Overseeing the inspiration, motivation and performance of all the creative team.
• Exceptional leadership of the team to utilise the talents of contribution of all members and build on and increase the performance of individuals and the team, with a particular focus of supporting direct reports to lead their teams with excellence.
• Ensuring your direct reports (Creative Directors) and the teams that report into them are growing and developing their craft, and deliver on both Hub OKRs and their personal OKRs.
• Developing cultural intelligence, advertising skills and creative / technical skills in the Creative team to improve our creative outputs.
• Establish and deliver creative best practice processes across the agency that encourage the development of exceptional creative campaigns.
• Leading client conversations to support the sale of more creatively challenging and diverse work, and coaching the Creative team in this.
• Actively lead new business conversations and pitches to win work with the most culturally connected brands in the world.
• Providing ideas and solutions to business challenges, having strategic conversations and representing the creative view point in business level discussions at Board level.
• Driving excellent commercial awareness and performance across the Creative team.
• Championing and leading the inclusion of diversity of thought in all campaigns.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have previous Chief Creative Officer or Executive Creative Director experience
• Experience of running a multi-disciplinary creative department with focus on conceptual outputs and executional brilliance
• Minimum 10 years working in relevant industries experience
• A significant portfolio of world-class work
• Proven ability to win major, high pedigree advertising awards on work directly under your direction – Cannes, D&AD, One Show, Effies, Webbies etc. (ideally on social-first campaigns)
• Strong capability to ensure creative teams execute effective campaigns consistently, in the style and voice of the brand, on brief driving real ROI / impact for some of the world’s biggest global brands
• Ability to create big, bold, ideas as well as effective social-first digital and direct response campaigns
• The ability to motivate, inspire, manage, create as well as be open to stewarding in new creative technology and AI
• A highly experienced creative leader who has developed high performance in their team

Apply with your CV and Portfolio today!

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