Creative Lead

6 months ago

Durban, South Africa OLIVER Full time

**Role**:Creative Lead

**Location**:Durban, South Africa

**ROLE MISSION**

Working in partnership with our client, the Creative Lead will lead the team to deliver a vast range of different marketing material; from digital, motion, print to social, setting campaigns apart from those of competitors, whilst also leading and mentoring the creative team on-site and remotely. The role demands the fullest understanding of concepting, graphic design, copywriting and typography. The experience in executing projects of all sizes, and completing them with resourcefulness and dedication is essential for success.

The Creative Lead continues to build on already strong foundations in packaging, social and digital and possesses the desire to increase their involvement in projects.

**ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING**

Reporting to the Creative Director, the Creative Lead oversees the team of 5.

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE**
- Work in true collaboration with client and be responsible for Brand Guardianship on their projects to ensure that the client experience is as positive as possible.
- Oversee the initial and final stages of projects to ensure a collaborative working across teams on ideation, creation and implementation.
- Creative responsibility to ensure solutions are realised and delivered to the highest quality of creative standards.
- Working closely with clients during kick-off to create strong concepts from the initial brief.
- Develop a deep understanding of target audiences and the clients marketing strategy to deliver high quality results that have an instant, positive impact on the consumer, promoting the product or brand.
- Keeping up to date with current cultural and design trends.
- To pitch creative solutions in response to marketing strategies.
- To challenge and develop the client brand guidelines to ensure the creative work is delivered to the highest standard.
- Provide leadership and direction to the wider creative team for the best creative output.
- Accountable for creative growth targets for the account.

**WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL**
- Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships.
- A highly developed and honed creative flair
- Strong art direction, copywriting and concepting skills
- A highly creative thinker with the ability to take and positively influence client briefs with your own innovative ideas.
- Confident in bringing ideas and creativity to projects whilst working within a broad range of design & copy guidelines across a variety of artwork collateral.
- Strong client liaison abilities, with a proven track record of developing strong client relationships and a consistent record of taking, interpreting and delivering design projects within agreed timeframes
- Effective at organising and prioritising workloads to manage client delivery whilst simultaneously influencing clients with their own ideas and conceptual creativity
- The ability to manage and develop junior team members.
- Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service.
- Highly creative with the ability to generate ideas and practically contribute to studio output.
- Experience in FMCG sectors.
- 10+ years of relevant experience in: Digital, Packaging, Print, Motion Graphics, Artwork, Production

**ABOUT OUR COMPANY**

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

**OUR VALUES**

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be** Ambitious** to succeed

Be **Imaginative** to push the boundaries of what's possible

Be **Inspirational** to do groundbreaking work

Be **always learning and listening** to understand

Be **Results-focused **to exceed expectations

Be **actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist** across our community, clients and creations
- 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]

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