Creative Director

* Marketing Agency
- Creative Director
- Marketing Communication
Role: Creative Director (Creative Agency)

**Salary**: £50-60k per annum
Location: Basingstoke, Hampshire
Permanent, Full Time Hybrid working (split between home and office)
What are we looking for?
A new Creative Director to boost the continued growth of this exciting and dynamic creative agency based in Basingstoke.
They proudly deliver projects for an impressive range of clients both internally and externally and as their new Creative Director, you will own the creative output, devouring new briefs and delivering top notch work for many of those clients.
Come rain or shine, you'll be bursting with creative concepts and endless enthusiasm visualising your bright ideas across all channels and platforms.
You'll demonstrate shining leadership and people skills, developing the creative team under your watch and refining the agency's creative approach as you go.
Being a small business means there is stacks of scope for you to make this role your own and in fact they will welcome individuality and uniqueness from this person.
Working closely with the two founders you will be contributing to the bigger picture, creating engaging campaigns that deliver effective results. You'll be leading on pitches alongside their comms consultants and bringing your own knowledge and experience toadapt campaigns across multiple channels, sharing in the successful delivery of briefs to delight the clients.
The company
They provide the perfect place for an enthusiastic individual to flourish. As a growing agency, they've been delighting clients with bold and brave work for over 10 years and can boast a great pipeline of work from networks, connections, referrals and repeatbusiness.
Having developed impactful comms campaigns, exceptional employee engagement initiatives, and creative brand and website development for a bumper crop of businesses and organisations like Ocado, Roche, NHS, PPL, KP Snacks and many more.
Recent projects they are super-proud to have supported are public bodies through the incredibly challenging response to COVID-19, including the NHS, local authorities and fire services.
More on the role
- You'll be adaptable across external and internal channels, websites, video and animation (and more) for clients and budgets big and small across various sectors and industries
- You'll be the creative lead on projects and pitches with a strategic and conceptual approach
- You'll love presenting ideas to clients and have the ability to articulate your ideas in forms of scamps and storyboards
- You'll take a project from brief stage right through to delivery, leading a team while also mucking in where needed
- You'll demonstrate your ability to fly solo and make important decisions that are aligned to our culture
- You'll lead our design team, helping them to do their best work. You'll inspire them and support their career development
- You'll guide other members of the team too, including our comms consultants and project managers
- You'll be happy to help shape and improve internal processes
What you'll receive in return
- Flexible hours and working
- 22 days paid holiday plus bank holidays
- Salary £50-£60,000 per annum
- An extra day off for your birthday
- As a custom and practise we close over the Christmas / New Year period
- Access to Perkbox
- And you get to work with all of us lovely people
Your attributes
- A friendly and approachable nature
- A natural curiosity and a desire to always know more
- An ability to develop and maintain relationships that inspire trust and respect
- The confidence and capability to contribute towards original and imaginative ideas
- Organised, hard-working and calm under the pressure of busy agency life
- A diligent eye for detail and an ability to see the bigger picture
- Passionate about all things creative, eager, ambitious and a great team player
- Experience of leading a team and conducting 121's
- Ensure regular training needs are identified to support progression and learning
- Proven track record in coaching and motivation
- Strong communication skills
- Commercial acumen and awareness
- Ability to recognise problems and areas for improvement
- A fundamental understanding of comms challenges
What's important to them
- The ability pitch, present to and grow clients
- Experience in a senior creative role in a similar agency environment
- A portfolio full of previous projects and experience representing delivery of comms and campaigns across all channels and mediums
- Excellent communication skills translating your ideas and inspiring clients
- A proven track record of leading a team to deliver a project from start to finish