Creative Director

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Job Title: Creative Director

Location: Sydney, Australia

Role: Part-time (20 hours a week – 4 hours a day).

Work-setup: Hybrid (2 days a week)

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

In a highly competitive and saturated market place creating visually stunning, impactful and effective creative work is essential. To help us deliver this we are looking for a strong, inspirational Creative Director – renowned for their work across this category – to join us on our journey.

The Creative Director will effectively and efficiently oversee and direct conceptual and design projects, and will ultimately be responsible for the quality of ideas and the end-to-end design execution of jobs, from brief through to implementation and delivery. The Creative Director will have responsibility for overseeing multiple simultaneous live projects, each one typically assigned a Lead Creator or Designer, who, in collaboration with the Project Manager, will report to the Creative Director for the duration of the project.

We are looking for a multi-skilled creative that will direct, inspire, lead and support all levels of design and creative talent across the account, defining and advancing a positive and highly productive design culture for the agency.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

* To champion creativity and excellent client centricity.
* To creatively direct conceptual designers / graphic designers / art workers, harnessing their development and performance, in a manner that assures maximum efficiency and creativity.
* To manage, supervise, review and audit the work of designers and art workers to ensure the creative level expected of IIG is being met.
* To help drive maximum efficiency, productivity and the maintenance of the highest quality of creative concept, design and artwork.
* To work with and support the team to deliver excellent client service.
* To work actively with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of the highest level of client service from the team.
* To oversee, manage and review new creative concepts to both new and existing clients.
* To act as brand guardian to ensure all design collateral produced is faithful to the client’s brand guidelines.
* On occasion, undertake the design of digital collateral, to the client’s brief and exacting
* standards and within agreed timeframes.
* To effectively organise and prioritise workload, especially around deadline, and have the flexibility to respond to increases in workload/ tight deadlines.

Key responsibilities:

Design & Design Culture:

* To work with the wider SMT to establish creative strategy for the account.
* To motivate and influence the creative team to constantly strive for excellence in performance.
* To proactively monitor the quality of design projects being produced and submitted by leading internal review sessions and seeking feedback from both internal and external stakeholders.
* To oversee and manage the timely delivery of all jobs / projects going through the studio, always taking into consideration the clients’ requirements and expectations.
* To investigate, propose and implement innovative ways of delivering design services to maximise efficiency and productivity.
* To actively oversee and manage team meetings, forward scheduling meetings and work review meetings.
* To manage, oversee and coordinate the sharing of knowledge and the facilitation of learning within the team and all other employees to improve business practices, refine processes, aid and promote the development of creative ideas and introduce new services.
* To organise monthly work / successes / learnings / presentations to the wider SMT team to showcase work from the studio/ team managed.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE:

As the senior design practitioner within the Creative team, the Creative Director will combine first-class design expertise, creativity and thought leadership with commercial acumen and leadership gravitas.

The Creative Director will:

* Must have experience working with a brand in a Global role. This doesn’t mean they’ve worked on a global brand in Australia but that they have actual international experience of working on brands in various markets (UK / US preferred) or have been in a global role in Australia working on a brand that does international campaigns (not just APAC – must include outside of region).
* Be hands-on with a strong focus on digital.
* Be experienced in directing complex, commercial, design projects involving senior stakeholders and interdisciplinary creative teams with strong experience across FMCG
* and Healthcare.
* Be highly creative with the ability to generate ideas and practically contribute to design
* details, importantly demonstrating exceptional pure graphic design and typography skills.
* Have deep technical design skills in one or more discipline, e.g. Content Creation, Design
* for Digital, Brand Immersion, Events, Design for Print, User Experience, etc.
* Have a proven ability to communicate and liaise with all levels in the business.
* Have a proven ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, including outside the design
* team.
* Have a proven ability to effective manage creative teams.
* Have Director level written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking.
* Be proficient in Adobe CC, Microsoft Office and other related software.
* Be a driven, proactive, helpful, and enthusiastic team player.
* Based in Sydney – willing to go into the office at least 2 days a week.

Req ID: 10211

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US:

OLIVER provides clients with dedicated agencies. We do this because we believe the traditional agency model is not fit for the speed of modern marketing. Businesses want, and rightly demand, the same quality of strategic and creative thinking the traditional agency provides, but at a speed that befits how they now work.

The traditional agency outside-in model means that huge quantities of time are wasted in the back and forth and linear processes between agencies and clients. OLIVER agencies come to the client, live inside their office and solve their problems collaboratively.

OLIVER agencies are strategic and creative, whilst being agile and adaptive. They cover the full range of integrated marketing, but at the speed that businesses now demand. We allow our clients to work in real time. Creating better work, at pace.

OUR VALUES AND HOW TO LIVE THEM:

Ambition – you look for opportunities to deliver greater value to those around you.

Imagination – you identify a range of solutions to problems.

Inclusion – to be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations.

Inspiration – you lead by example and encourage others to do the same.

Learning – you have excellent listening skills that helps you to learn from our clients and those around you.

Results – you accept responsibility for your actions.

We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.

Inside Ideas Group and its’ affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.