Creative Director at Avatar International

Duties

Creative Excellence 

• Drive the overall quality of the creative product whilst maintaining accountability to client objectives.
• Establishes a culture where powerful advertising combines with creativity and quality.
• Strive to meet the goal of the Creative Circle points as defined annually.
• The Avatar through-the-line approach is supported by you and this sentiment is filtered down to your staff.
• Ensure the quality of work is maintained/improved under your leadership.
• Creative work that is presented is fully thought-out solutions rather than options (including detailed thinking, budgets, timings)
• Produce TV ads that rank amongst the most-liked ads in each emerging and developed market.
• Devising an award drive to produce better proactive work and ensuring that this drive is more efficiently run.
• Gain respect from the client and develop a valuable relationship with the internal teams.
• Create integrated “solutions” as opposed to “one-off” ads.
• Work with strategy and media at reviews as well as client presentations.
• Clarify the exact purpose/deliverables of a brief before developing work.
• Create a culture of ‘solutions not problems’ within the creative department.

Talent Management:

• Manage, grow, develop, and empower direct team reports.
• Contribute by effecting innovation that builds a positive agency culture and work environment through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and guidance.
• Inspire and energize individuals as well as teams to achieve their own and agency objectives.
• Attract and retain top talent.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Matric
• Diploma / Degree in a related field
• Must have a strong art direction or copywriting background with an educated eye for design
• 10+ Years of experience and 5+ years in leadership, as well as communication and project management skills
• Working knowledge of graphic design and/or illustration, audio production and editing, video capture and editing, video effects production, 3D design, animation and web design
• Superior organizational, customer service, leadership, communication, writing and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize deadlines
• Be responsible and a self-starter
• Must be committed to working in a dynamic and supportive team environment
• Must have a way with force and grace when contrary views are expressed
• Experienced in second-level intuition – “Yes, it looks good, but will it work?”