Publicis Groupe

Runs advertising and digital transformation services

Associate Creative Director

Graphic DesignConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeDubai - United Arab EmiratesNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Six or more years of agency experience, primarily with an art background.
A proven track record of conceptual creative ability and judgment.
Successful client contact experience and the ability to grow business organically.
The ability to work collaboratively with account management.
Excellent presentation skills.
Successful experience managing creative professionals.
Availability and commitment to work extra hours as needed to ensure client satisfaction.
Demonstrated experience in client or brand events.
Understanding of consumer behaviors and industry trends.

Responsibilities

Develop creative concepts in collaboration with agency disciplines, including copywriters and designers, to build cohesive campaigns.
Lead visual design and art direction for advertising campaigns, ensuring the design aligns with campaign strategy and communicates the intended message.
Mentor art directors, designers, and other team members, and oversee production of campaign visual elements to ensure high-quality execution.
Lead creative work by assigning teams, inspiring them to produce strong concepts and final work, and working with account management to ensure client satisfaction with creative quality.
Work with the Creative Director to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range team plans.
Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insights and creative inspiration.
Promote creative quality and accountability and ensure deliverables meet client expectations and agency standards.
Raise issues proactively to improve team effectiveness and collaboration.
Communicate clearly and confidently with stakeholders, peers, and clients, and contribute perspectives to discussions and brainstorming.
Build relationships with peers and clients, listen to differing perspectives, and work inclusively with stakeholders.
Address problems promptly and develop contingency plans focused on resolution.
Build trust with peers, clients, and stakeholders.
Demonstrate understanding of client marketing challenges and propose creative solutions responsive to strategic needs.
Train new employees on responsibilities and agency procedures, and help current creative staff achieve professional and personal goals.
Work with upper management to plan and pursue strategic agency billing growth and participate in new-business pitches.
Develop and evaluate creative concepts, copy, and art at predetermined stages, providing direction before account-management review.
Set creative standards that produce work recognized by agency management as on-strategy and unique.
Lead creative efforts on new-business assignments as needed.
Ensure client-facing creative presentations meet professional standards.
Manage workload for the assigned book of business to maximize creative staff productivity and work quality.
Apply outdoor-industry expertise and experience to the team's work.
Conceive and create experience-design solutions that meet client objectives.
Communicate creative concepts and strategies to clients and internal teams.
Design comps, storyboards, initial graphic concepts, and final deliverables.
Brainstorm and develop campaigns while managing multiple client projects concurrently.
Assist the Creative Director in improving the creative group's technical and creative performance.
Help ensure deadlines and budgets are met.
Ideate, write, and execute original creative concepts in response to client briefs, objectives, and goals.
Extend client relationships and explore new ways to deliver value.
Present, share, and review creative work with Executive Creative Directors, account management, planning leads, and management.
Manage multiple projects from concept through completion, coordinating in-house resources and third-party vendors.
Collaborate with account management, planning, and the broader creative team to develop distinctive work.
Provide leadership and professional development to department staff.
Mentor and train team members, write performance reviews, allocate work, and set team-member goals and KPIs while supporting achievement of those goals.
Take ownership of actions and accept consequences.
Adjust performance based on experience and feedback and adapt to changing circumstances.
Consider others' ideas and apply them when beneficial to the business.
Set impactful objectives, pursue high performance, and take ownership of personal development.
Challenge established practices constructively and take considered risks to question internal and external perspectives.
Act with honesty, integrity, humility, and resilience when facing challenges.

Company description

At Saatchi & Saatchi Health, we believe in making the impossible possible in health. We partner with our clients to turn complexity into clarity, ideas into impact, and ambition into real-world outcomes. By combining creativity, data, and technology, we create work that doesn’t just reach people--it moves them, connects with them, and makes a difference in their lives. Because when our people bring curiosity and courage to the work, we unlock new possibilities for our clients, and better outcomes for the patients they serve. We’re here to push what health can be. And to make it matter.

Overview

The Associate Creative Director (art) is involved in the development of creative concepts, working with all disciplines in the agency including copywriters and designers to build cohesive and effective campaigns.

Their focus is on the visual design and art direction of advertising campaigns. They ensure the visual design aligns with the overall creative direction and strategy of the campaign, and that it effectively communicates the desired message to the target audience.

As a close ally of the Creative Director, they are stepping into a managerial role to mentor team members, especially art directors and designers. In addition, they oversee the production of the visual elements of the campaign, ensuring they are executed to the highest standards.

The Associate Creative Director, Art is responsible for leading the creative work. This leadership role includes assigning teams, inspiring those teams to consistently produce exceptional concepts and final work, and working closely with account management to ensure that our clients are satisfied with the quality of our creative work.

• Works with the Creative Director to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the team.

• Helps develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration

• Promote a culture of creative quality and accountability and ensure creative deliverables meet both our clients’ expectations and our own standards of excellence

Responsibilities

People & Leadership *

Seeks others' feedback to develop self-awareness, strengths and address development area.
Is able to proactively raise issues to improve effective team working and collaboration.
Is able to communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner.
Collaborates with stakeholders and embraces an inclusive based environment.
Is able to make valuable contributions to discussions and brainstorming sessions, providing insight and point of view.
Able to build relationships quickly with others and engages personally with peers and clients.
Treats others with respect, listens to other perspectives, especially when they are different from own.
Able to tackle problems in a timely manner and develop contingency plans that focus on problem resolution.
Drives a culture of trust with Peers, clients and all other stakeholders.

Innovative & Analytical Mindset *

Develops and reviews creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration
Demonstrates to clients that an understanding of their marketing challenges and is responsive to their strategic needs in proposing creative solutions.
•Trains new employees on responsibilities and agency procedures, and works with current creative staff to help them achieve professional and personal goals.
Works with the upper management team to plan and pursue continuing strategic growth of agency billings and participate in new business pitch opportunities.
Develops and evaluates creative concepts, copy and art, at pre-determined points and providing direction prior to review by account management.
Sets high creative standards that lead to a body of work that creates enthusiastic customers and clients, and is consistently recognized by agency management as on strategy and unique.
Leads the creative efforts on new business assignments, as needed.
Ensures that creative presentations to the client meet the highest professional standards.
Manages the workload for assigned book of business to maximize the productivity and quality of work from the creative staff.
Imparts outdoor industry expertise and experience to the team.
Conceives and create experience design solutions that meet client objectives
Effectively communicate creative concepts and strategies to both clients and our internal team.
Designing comps, storyboards, initial graphic concepts, and final deliverables
Brainstorms and developing campaigns while working with clients on multiple projects at once
Assists the Creative Director to improve the Creative group’s technical and creative performance.
Help ensure that deadlines and budgets are met.
Ideates, writes and executes original and iconic creative concepts in response to client briefs, objectives or goals.
Extends client relationships and explore new ways to deliver value.
Presents, shares and reviews creative work with Executive Creative Director/s, Account Management and Planning Leads as well as members of the Management Team
Manages multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors
Collaborates effectively with Account Management, Planning and the broader creative team to develop disruptive and iconic work
Provides leadership and professional development to department staff
Mentors and trains team members, write performance reviews, and allocate work
Set goals and KPIs for each team member, and works with them to achieve these.

Self *

Is able to take ownership for actions and deals with consequences in a mature manner.
Able to adjust performance based on experiences and feedback and showcases agility and flexibility.
Displays openness to the ideas of others and leverages them when beneficial for the business.
Showcases curiosity and open mindset towards new ways of doing things.
Is able to set high impact objectives and goes above and beyond to exceed performance.
Demonstrates the Growth Mindset and is able to take ownership of personal development and growth.
Capable of constructively challenging the status-quo and takes risks to challenge internal and external perspectives.
Approaches situations and individuals with honesty, integrity and humbleness.
Displays resilience and maintains drives and a positive outlook when faced with challenges.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of agency experience with primarily an Art background

• A proven track record of conceptual creative ability and judgment

• Successful client contact experience and ability to grow business organically

• The ability to work collaboratively with account management

• Excellent presentation skills

• Successful experience in managing creatives

• The availability and commitment to work extra hours as needed to ensure client satisfaction

• Demonstrated experience in events (client/brand)

• Understanding of consumer behaviours and industry trends

Additional information

R-4786

P-5411

About the Company

Publicis Groupe

Runs advertising and digital transformation services

Publicis Groupe runs advertising, media buying and digital transformation services for companies that want to reach consumers, coordinate campaigns and improve their business systems. Its agency network includes creative and media specialists, while Publicis Sapient builds and modernizes the technology behind clients' operations. Epsilon adds customer data and marketing technology that connect brands with audiences and measure campaign results. Clients pay for consulting, campaign creation and execution, with production and media costs billed through alongside the group's service work. Founded in 1926, Publicis Groupe is headquartered in Paris, France.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 1926

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