Senior Creative Lead

Responsibilities: you will…

• Bring your creative philosophy to Clicky, expanding our portfolio.
• Focus on the ‘creative’ conceptual side of the role, focussing on creative strategy and growth for our clients, as opposed to technical UX and UI.
• Constantly innovate and push boundaries in our work whilst delivering performance-focused creative. Regularly generate ideas, conceptualise them and help to steer the approach.
• Take ownership of our creative vision and be at the forefront of the industry trends.
• Continue to adapt and evolve our offering to ensure we remain at the forefront with our services.
• Develop and conceptualise ideas that push the boundaries across a multi-channel offering that leads to award-winning campaigns that champion our clients profiles.
• Communicate with clients, account and project managers, planners and SMT to ensure the vision of the campaign is implemented throughout.
• Develop new ideas for advertising, content, or promotional campaigns.
• Define with clarity how we undertake types of work, the platforms, tools, and channels we use, and ensure this is followed by our entire team.
• Monitor risk across both clients and the team on a daily basis taking ownership of the resolution of the problem, leading the team to resolve it quickly.
• Ensure we consistently improve our knowledge through training with each creative team member having a personal development plan.
• Be an ideation leader with unique ways of bringing in the whole client project team to work together to achieve a digital design that wows, and delivers on our targets for clients.
• Work closely across Clicky departments – analytics, search, paid media.
• Be a QA ambassador with an aptitude for perfection.
• Be consumed with researching advertising and promotional campaigns, always seeking new ideas and innovative ways of doing things.
• Love pitching concepts to clients.
• Oversee several projects from start to finish, keeping to deadlines.
• Liaise with clients to keep them informed and to highlight any issues.
• Understand the commercial aspects of the agency.
• Be involved in planning advertising, supervising the creative process, and guiding the team.
• Take responsibility for the creative philosophy and the standard of output across the agency or department.
• Storyboarding or translating ideas to the creative team.
• Select external suppliers when necessary.
• Sign off projects before they are presented to the client.
• Live and breathe design, constantly following other agencies and aware of industry changes and best practices.

The ideal person will have the following…

• Exceptional communication skills and be able to clearly express concepts and ideas create, plan and deliver a strategic vision for clients.
• 4+ years experience of working in an agency environment.
• Strong Portfolio including recognisable brands. Including a strong showcase of branding, web, and campaign creative.
• Experience in a senior role would be advantageous.
• Experience in mentoring and training junior members of the team.
• Interested in developing their skills outside of work-attends events, listens to podcasts, reads up on latest trends/industry update.
• Strong experience and skills in the Adobe suite and sketch demonstrated in portfolio.
• After Effects, Premiere.