Creative Director- Live Experiences

**Department**:
**Group Creative Services**

**Salary**:
**Negotiable**

**Location**:
**Midlands**

Your reason for being here

Everyone at DRPG has a purpose, and yours is to positively influence others by leading in the creation of highly engaging live experiences. Your ideas and creative concepts will purposely blow people’s minds in a way that succeeds in delivering better than before and beyond the expected.
The way you roll

The passion for what you do is infectious. You love taking fellow team members and clients on the journey with you as you take a project brief and begin to develop it. You are a true leader when it comes to championing the power of creativity and focus on the value your ideas and those around you will bring to all stakeholders.

How you make it all possible

Ideation of B2B and B2C live event, exhibition and experiential solutions that directly lead to clients attaining their brand marketing/ employee communications objectives - maximising the spend within their budget

Generating creative ideas and concepts in answer to client’s project briefs. This includes content ideation for 3D design, 2D design, copy, films, digital, AV tech and animation elements

Organising and running creative development sessions with various team members as required

Taking responsibility and leading in the creation of proposals and client pitch presentations that may involve other team members

Delivering face-to-face pitches to clients including the development of various content in order to do so

Working with the sales teams, account teams and various production teams to develop concepts and support in the development and production of proposals activities, including writing and presenting cohesive and persuasive rationales for client projects

Researching creative concepts, new technologies and trends to collate relevant information to help the development of ideas and formulated concepts

Leading other members of the team from all departments, including suppliers, to ensure a quality response is delivered to a high standard and to time

Directing the production of any support services required to deliver a client’s response and during the period of the project to completion

Providing a flexible and adaptable approach to work, moulding to, and influencing client ways of working

Ensuring that our high quality of creative and production is upheld, maintaining consistently high standards for yourself and others in the team

Proactively increasing the creative capabilities of the DRPG brand and team

Ensuring internal and external brand compliance. Keeping up to date with resources and changes

This list is not exhaustive, and you will be expected to work flexibly and undertake other such duties as the management may, from time to time, reasonably require.
What’s in your toolbox

Must have at least five years creative experience in the blue chip corporate live experience arena

Must possess a thorough understanding of B2C and B2B communications and delivery systems, processes and industry best practices

A strong working knowledge of comms strategy for internal and external audiences

Highly experienced in creatively leading projects from concept to completion with an attention to detail and understanding of objectives

A clear understanding of the importance and relevance of a client’s brand

Ability to make evaluative judgments both in delivery and commerciality, and ensure that projects are viable and deliverable within the agreed budget

Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with strong listening skills

Ability to coordinate, supervise and help upskill other team members, to include organising, prioritising, and scheduling work assignments

Highly competent creative thinker and problem solver

Responsible ownership who gains trust from others

Must be computer literate. Competent at using Word, PowerPoint and Keynote

Self-motivated with the ability to work well independently and as part of a team with an adaptable approach to work

Willingness to learn new skills and develop existing ones

Positive attitude towards challenging situations and multi-tasking

Be able to work under pressure on multiple projects with impeccable time management skills to ensure all deadlines are met

Must be committed to making ‘anything possible’ with a ‘can do’ attitude, providing high levels of client service

Complete passion and commitment to achieving excellent results

Get to know us

We’re one of the most unexpectedly all-round capable communications agencies that’s been on the go for years - ever since our head honcho set up shop in a shed back in 1980, in fact.

Since then, we’ve made it our mission to make anything possible for our many and varied clients, putting our creative flair into delivering strategic communication campaigns, digital solutions, film and videos, events, exhibitions, and a whole lot more in b