Creative Director (Bryanston, Sandton) at Publicis Groupe

Job Description

CREATIVE LEADERSHIP

• Ability to provide visionary leadership for the local team, whilst upholding the Global standards of the central Strategic Business Unit.
• Ensure consistency and creative excellence across all channels and touchpoints.
• Develop and maintain solid working relationships with Creative Leads in multiple locations, fostering the Power of One culture.
• Ability to undertake briefs with great autonomy
• Ability to articulate creative decision-making and present to senior stakeholders with passion and conviction.
• A solutions-based outlook and approach to the day to day requirements that marry both production knowledge and understanding with a rigorous commitment to craft.

HANDS-ON SKILLS

• Demonstrate exceptional hands-on skill, across static and moving assets.
• Uphold best-in-class craftsmanship across all outputs.
• An impeccable eye for detail, championing brand consistency across channels and formats
• Keen to stay at the forefront of emerging tools, trends and technologies to supercharge creative workflow.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, in multiple countries to oversee, feedback and develop creative.

Strategic ART DIRECTION

• Experience with brand building and identity, for large scale brands.
• A solid understanding of producing comms across the customer journey, from Awareness through to Consideration and Purchase.
• Ability to translate brand strategy into tangible creative solutions, maintaining quality and impact.

Quality assurance

• Implement and uphold stringent QC measures to ensure all creative outputs meet the highest standards.
• Conduct regular creative reviews to feedback, iterate and improve creative work, in line with Global brand guidelines.

Production expertise

• A proven track record of production, from print, digital, social and experiential.
•  Experience with live-action shoots, working with internal production teams and external suppliers to maintain a creative vision.
• Collaborate with external partners to deliver high -quality, on-budget productions.
• Able to manage and oversee post-production processes from editing, sound design, VO, grade to the desired creative output.
• An understanding of 3D, CGI production hugely beneficial.

TEAM Management

• Ability to work with Client Services / Traffic to ensure adequate creative resource allocation, balancing workloads and skillsets within the team.
• Conduct regular team meetings to facilitate communication and ensure overall creative alignment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a senior creative role in leading creative agencies
• Experience working within global brand guidelines across all media
• Ability to ensure quality and accuracy of creative execution
• A driven and highly committed attitude
• Hunger to perfect deliverables large and small
• Solid communications skills (writing and speaking) in English, French a bonus
• Client facing experience/strong presentation skills
• A ‘team player’ who can bring together personalities across multiple geographies and build harmony within the developing culture.