Executive Creative Director - Advertising/Digital Agency

Executive Creative Director

Job Description:

- We are looking for a trend spotter, passionate, mad innovative streak with a winner's attitude ECD to join our growing team here at Experience Commerce(EC).

- This is a senior role for a unique, inspiring leader that has the experience, ability, and drive to manage multiple projects and creative teams. You will provide the creative team with guidance and ideas to launch new impressive campaigns. You will devise the concepts and strategies for an existing & new clients and will monitor its progress.

- This role will lead and work seamlessly with cross-functional leaders throughout the company to achieve industry setting results. The goal is to achieve the best possible outcome and essentially to meet clients expectations and drive our sustainable growth.

Responsibilities:

- Champion creativity and excellent customer centricity.

- Responsible for overseeing the daily content activity on several digital & social media networks including, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and others where applicable.

- The individual must have a keen interest in digital platforms with an exceptional mode of storytelling bring rich details alive.

- Creates optimum structure to provide effective, efficient development of creative output.

- Provides evaluation, mentorship, and counsel to direct reports

- Monitors overall quality of agency creative output and provides direction and leadership

- Upskill both design and copy teams to ensure their output is best in class compared to any other competing agency

- Manage, supervise, review and audit the work of designers, artworkers and copywriters to ensure the creative level expected of EC is being met.

- Act as brand guardian to ensure all design collateral produced is faithful to the client's brand guidelines.

- Foster positive relationship between creative department and other agency functional areas

- Encourages strong collaborative relationship with account management and other departments to drive new business forward with existing and new clients.

- Responsible for awareness and communication of creative successes both internally and externally. Primary responsibility for creating, building, and maintaining company creative reputation

- Provide clear direction on to teams on creative work, ensuring that it meets clients' goals and strategies

- Expertly articulate/track project milestones, deliverables, and risks to acct leads and senior management, internal and /or external vendors, while communicating progress, issues, and accomplishments

- Inspire the team and help them think about innovative and ground breaking creative campaigns for brands across the biz.

Desired Candidate/ What you will need to Succeed in this role:

- Hands on experience of over 12-15 years in advertising / digital agency with a strong focus on Digital first.

- Proven experience as a creative director or in a similar creative role.

- The consistent ability to produce and communicate fresh ideas and visual concepts

- High levels of motivation and perseverance with a strong sense of conviction in your ideas, plus the skills and confidence to express them

- Hands-on expertise in developing creative solutions and campaigns across all mediums; branding, advertising, video, websites, interactive, social campaigns, content marketing.

- Outstanding presentation skills and proven ability to produce and pitch world-class strategic presentations to all levels of an organization

- Excellent management, mentorship, and interpersonal skills, with a track record of inspiring creative teams to achieve their best work

- Must be a self-starter while being comfortable guiding teams, freelancers, agencies, and production partners

- A passion for the craft of their discipline, with a willingness to roll sleeves up and be handson with teams and the work when needed

- Collaborative and decisive style with a sense of urgency in order to deliver results on time

- Acute observation and an eye for detail

- Ability to handle a team

- Graduate / Postgraduate in Mass Communication / Advertising"