Senior Art Director
Full-time
Company Description
Saatchi & Saatchi has grown from a start-up advertising agency in London in 1970 to a global creative communications company with 114 offices in 67 countries and over 6500 employees. Saatchi & Saatchi is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group We are a full service, integrated communications network and we work with 6 of the top 10 and over half of the top 50 global advertisers. We’re in the business of getting people to fall in love with our clients’ products and services. We have an unshakeable spirit and unbeatable attitude that Nothing is Impossible, a concept we apply to all our clients and work. We believe in effecting positive change through creativity, always. While we seek out the most brilliant minds to help us on our quest, we’re also passionate about nurturing the best talent from within. Which is why when you join us, your journey can be one of continuous evolution.
Job Description
The Senior Art Director, Art is responsible for leading the creative work. This leadership role includes assigning teams, inspiring those teams to consistently produce exceptional concepts and final work, and working closely with account management to ensure that our clients are satisfied with the quality of our creative work.
• Works with the CD / ACD to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the team.
• Helps develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration
• Promote a culture of creative quality and accountability and ensure creative deliverables meet both our clients’ expectations and our own standards of excellence
Main Tasks
• Develops and reviews creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration
• Demonstrates to clients that an understanding of their marketing challenges and is responsive to their strategic needs in proposing creative solutions.
• Trains new employees on responsibilities and agency procedures, and works with current creative staff to help them achieve professional and personal goals.
• Works with the upper management team to plan and pursue continuing strategic growth of agency billings and participate in new business pitch opportunities.
• Develops and evaluates creative concepts, copy and art, at pre-determined points and providing direction prior to review by account management.
• Sets high creative standards that lead to a body of work that creates enthusiastic customers and clients, and is consistently recognized by agency management as on strategy and unique.
• Leads the creative efforts on new business assignments, as needed.
• Ensures that creative presentations to the client meet the highest professional standards.
• Manages the workload for assigned book of business to maximize the productivity and quality of work from the creative staff.
• Imparts outdoor industry expertise and experience to the team.
• Conceives and create experience design solutions that meet client objectives
• Effectively communicate creative concepts and strategies to both clients and our internal team.
• Designing comps, storyboards, initial graphic concepts, and final deliverables
• Brainstorms and developing campaigns while working with clients on multiple projects at once
• Assists the Creative Director to improve the Creative group’s technical and creative performance.
• Help ensure that deadlines and budgets are met.
• Ideates, writes and executes original and iconic creative concepts in response to client briefs, objectives or goals.
• Extends client relationships and explore new ways to deliver value.
• Presents, shares and reviews creative work with Executive Creative Director/s, Account Management and Planning Leads as well as members of the Management Team
• Manages multiple projects from concept through to completion, working with both in-house resources and third-party vendors
• Collaborates effectively with Account Management, Planning and the broader creative team to develop disruptive and iconic work
• Provides leadership and professional development to department staff
• Mentors and trains team members, write performance reviews, and allocate work
• Set goals and KPIs for each team member, and works with them to achieve these.
Qualifications
• 5+ years of agency experience with primarily an Art background
• Knowledge of existent and future craft trends according to industry standards
• A proven track record of conceptual creative ability and judgment
• Successful client contact experience and ability to grow business organically
• The ability to work collaboratively with account management
• Excellent presentation skills
• Successful experience in managing creatives
• The availability and commitment to work extra hours as needed to ensure client satisfaction
• Demonstrated experience in events (client/brand)
• Understanding of consumer behaviours and industry trends
• Core Skills: Ideas, Brand, Awards and strong skillsets on all existent Craft tools
Senior Art Director
DMC11, Dubai, United Arab Emirates * Full-time
