Associate Creative Director

About the role

An experienced and highly creative Creative Director is sought to lead the Creative Department and oversee the development and delivery of high-quality creative work across multiple platforms. The role covers creative excellence, team leadership, resource planning and workflow management, ensuring projects are delivered within agreed scope, timelines, budgets and quality standards.

Key responsibilities

• Provide creative direction across major projects, campaigns, pitches and client presentations, and establish high creative standards across digital, print, video, social, experiential and other platforms.
• Lead, mentor and develop designers, copywriters, art directors and other creative professionals; allocate resources and monitor workload, overtime and external resources.
• Escalate project overruns, resource constraints and scope changes early, and set up a workflow covering briefing, concept development, review, presentation, revisions, approval and production handover.
• Review and approve creative work before client submission, and present and defend creative concepts to clients and stakeholders.
• Manage client feedback and revisions, and brief and manage freelancers, photographers, illustrators and animators.
• Contribute to tenders and pitches, support a strong conversion rate from tenders to won projects, and identify team capability gaps and recruitment needs.
• Balance creative ambition with commercial requirements, budgets and timelines, and stay up to date on creative trends and consumer behaviour.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Advertising, Graphic Design, Communication Arts, Fine Arts, Marketing or a related creative discipline.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience as a Creative Group Head or equivalent senior creative leadership role; experience as a Creative Director is highly desirable.
• Strong portfolio showing multi-platform campaigns, creative direction and business-winning work.
• Experience in retail brands, digital activations, promotional campaigns, content marketing or events is an advantage.
• Ability to lead, mentor and develop creative teams, and to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced agency environment.

Required skills

• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign); After Effects is an advantage.
• Strong conceptual, visual storytelling, art direction or copywriting capabilities.
• Project, resource, budget and deadline management, and strong commercial awareness.