Creative Director- Copy based
Saatchi & Saatchi
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Working with the Executive Creative Director and Chief Creative Officer to stand as a rallying point for creative excellence.
- Lead creative teams across multiple projects and on-going timelines, you will personally ensure final deliverables meet our standards and client expectations.
- Strong ability to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short- and long-term need. Timelines, budgets, and availabilities change—we need someone who can roll with it.
- Help shape the creative department, manage and mentor junior members of the team and play a key role in business development
- Brainstorm visual and copy ideas with other members of the creative department
- Is an origin for strong conceptual and strategic directions to meet the communication needs of our clients/brands whilst maintaining the brand’s truth
- Respects the line between creative expression and commercial reality to ensure delivery of the right creative solution
- Ensure development of ideas/concepts capable of delivery and implementation in multiple channels
- Create and develop a brand idea over time and become the ‘guardian’ of that brand idea
- Provide constructive, specific and intelligible feedback in creative reviews
- Use personal expertise to draw out the best possible creative ideas to deliver against creative brief ‐ focus the team's ideas to come up with a relevant and beautiful solution to the client's brief
- Contribute to raising the overall creative standards for the agency
- Produce high profile, effective and award -winning work for clients thereby helping to raise the overall creative standards of the agency and attract new brands and clients
- Keep up to date with new technologies, rapidly evolving cultural and social trends to ensure our clients benefit from ideas relevant to the target audience and improved creative output
- Develop digital knowledge and skills across the department and agency
- Maintain the highest standards of creativity and quality throughout the development and implementation of all work
- Build on the agency's reputation for igniting the right conversational for clients
- Provide direction to a compelling creative strategy or solution
- Provide ongoing direction to Designer and the selection and/or refinement of the final creative product
- Ensure that all projects irrelevant of the client, brand or budget are produced to an excellent standard
- Oversee the final edit of all adverts for presentation to the client
- Present final edited version to client for approval
- Develop others to generate conversation changing ideas that continually contribute to a brand's success
- Form a productive and successful creative partnership to conceive, develop and produce effective communications campaigns for clients
- Build, manage and develop team members careers ‐ identify opportunities for growth
- Provide regular constructive feedback to direct reports
- Inspire and encourage creativity
- Meet with creative teams to check the status on current projects and assign new projects
- Ensure creative teams’ delivery creative solutions to deadlines and within the scope of the budget
- Produce award winning creative work that gets results (within strict time allocations and within budget)
- Support the traffic/production process and adhere to any time planning agreed with Creative Services ‐ briefing, creative time, interim reviews and final reviews
- Maintain an awareness of budget limitations/project profitability and ensure creative solutions work within these limit
- Creative Excellence: Join a team that is committed to pushing creative boundaries and delivering work that stands out.
- Career Development: At Leo Burnett, we invest in our talent. You'll have access to continuous learning opportunities and the chance to grow in your career.
- Collaborative Culture: Be part of a dynamic and diverse team that values collaboration, innovation, and a passion for creating impactful work.
- Global Network: Benefit from being part of the wider Publicis Groupe network, gaining exposure to global trends and best practices.