Creative Management Lead
Our London based client is looking for an experienced Leader, Communicator, Designer, Mentor and Thinker to join their team on a huge take-over on a Global scale!
They help their clients design and build experiences that solve business challenges. They believe every business challenge is ultimately a human one. And that a great experience, one that simply connects to a person’s reason, emotion, and purpose, will reward a smart brand. They carve their experiences in sound strategy and insights. Design them to be beautiful and inspiring. Executing them across digital, environmental, transactional, and communication platforms.
You will be:
Responsible for leading small teams on up to two client projects.
They work face-to-face with our clients, designing and deliver outstanding comms and campaigns.
Lead and shape projects, guide and develop their teams and build close relationships with the client, helping out where it really matters.
The main point of contact for a 1-3 client accounts. Can spot opportunities, and bring in the right expertise to shape future work; talking with clients and buyers to understand their needs and come up with effective solutions to problems. They can talk through and clarify a client's business challenge and come up with a compelling pitch for their ideas.
They look out for few of our more junior people. As a senior, there are mentoring responsibilities, and these range from coaching and mentoring to more formal development. They are the aid to the junior team members figure out where they're going and what they love to do.
Preferred skills:
You've got the gift of the gab. You've got experience consulting for clients. That means you know how to manage projects.
You know how to lead and develop teams. You know how to pitch to clients. Most importantly, it means you're great at building and maintaining great relationships.
You've got design skills. You have a strong portfolio, an eye for quality, and a deep understanding of the principles of good design, colour and typography. You stay true to the intent of your brief, and can explain and defend the decisions you make. You're cool, comfortable and in control throughout all phases of a design project, from idea generation to final delivery. You're experienced working with the Adobe Creative Suite, and can design for both print and web.
You’re comfortable with complexity and speed. You’re used to working in complex organisational environments, solving difficult problems with lots of moving parts. You’ve got experience managing fast-paced work alongside high performing consulting teams, all against a backdrop of a wider change within an organisation.
You're a great communicator. You speak eloquently. You write well. You can stand and present, argue and persuade. You can explain things in a simple, meaningful, compelling way. You get quiet pleasure from polishing a perfect paragraph of prose.
You're creative. You're flexible and open-minded, and love coming up with new and exciting ways to help your clients. You're also a sponge - soaking up great ideas that you encounter day to day, ready to reuse and repurpose in your work.