Creative Director

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa TBWA South Africa Full time

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

Your role would require you to bring together the vision of the creative team and the overall brand approach of Mercedes Benz. With an eye for detail, you feel comfortable designing TTL elements by bringing your design flare to the table, while still delivering quality designs to the clients.

You thrive well within a team but also function well on your own. You are great at taking creative direction from your peers and exceptional communication skills.

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Own the client creative strategy and the client relationships from a creative perspective
- Establish and maintain creative brand guidelines
- Developing exceptional and well-crafted creative that help solves client pain points
- Understanding of how to develop an integrated and multi-channel campaign within automotive industry
- Collaborate with the Client Services & Planning in the development of client strategies, analyzing results and identifying opportunities
- Enforce & support all creative operations with team members, striving for operational excellence
- Help identify area for improved efficiencies in the department and in working with other departments
- Stay informed of trends, competitor brands; ensuring creative campaigns stay on the front line of exceptional campaigns.
- Build and mentor a strong creative team
- Participate in employee 1 on 1s on a quarterly basis
- Have a pulse of the team’s workload and identify hiring needs
- Participate in the training of new and current team members
- Conduct interviews of new talent
- **VALUES**
- Can do attitude
- Process and performance driven
- Team player
- Empathetic
- Enthusiastic

You will be part of an international team x across multiple markets and hubs, including a support network of team members and training to develop your skillsets, with opportunities to participate in training across all team x marketing disciplines.

**REGIONS OVERSEAS**

Region Overseas(RO) is an incredibly diverse region - spanning LATAM, Australia, Turkey, Russia, South East Asia, Japan, South Korea and beyond.

Body of work that demonstrates account/campaign planning, creative direction, visual design skills, and interactive/digital advertising experiences**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
- 10+ years industry experience
- Minimum of 3 years people management experience
- Proven ability to ideate for film, print, digital, out-of-home, experiential and social
- Experience as a Creative Director at either agency or advertiser, with a copywriter or art director background
- Experience working with automotive and luxury brands
- Relentlessly high creative standards and exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly entrepreneurial environment with multiple different stakeholders and regulatory requirements
- Data-driven and obsessed with measurable impact of a campaign
- Ability to juggle many projects and consistently deliver results despite competing priorities
- Excellent presentation skills and ability to gracefully defend creative decisions to leadership, driving creative alignment with leadership and stakeholders
- Have a professional, pro-active, and positive attitude that sets an example to others
- Ability to take direction, and a willingness to learn new things
- Collaborative attitude with the ability to work independently and lead as required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Relevant qualification in Graphic Design, Art, or equivalent experience

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