Creative Director / Art Director

We’re looking for an inventive and innovative Art Director / Creative Director to join a leading marketing services company to work with a worldwide FMCG brand.

The successful applicant will provide a world-class standard of creative work and consultation across today’s ever-widening range of marketing channels.

You may already be working as a Senior creative or Art Director and be looking for your next creative challenge. You will need to bring lots of experience and a portfolio of work to demonstrate how you’ve helped brands with a wide range of challenges, including digital / social projects as well as photoshoot and film direction experience.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Deliver creative concepts to clients
• Produce presentations and design to a high industry standard
• Bring concepts and ideas to life from sketch stage to high quality visuals
• Be very comfortable in presenting, pitching and the development of client relationships with direct and regular contact
• Achieve best results by great collaboration with colleagues
• Art-direct effectively with photographers and film crews
• Perform as a positive contributor to the wider business

Skills and experience required:

• Extensive experience of carrying out art direction and creating concepts for a well-known brand or consumer retail brands
• Shows expertise in the use of Adobe Creative Cloud software, particularly InDesign and Photoshop
• Demonstrates expert knowledge in the management and production of design for print, digital, film and animation other related media
• Able to provide examples of having successfully delivered a range of previous creative work which generated excellent client feedback
• Excellent pitching and presentation skills
• Works efficiently in a fast paced environment
• Outstanding communication skills, both verbally and when putting together written correspondence, reports and presentations

Hours of work:

• Monday to Friday 9.00 am – 5.30 pm

Salary and benefits:

• £50,000 – £80,000
• Free parking
• Flexible working
• Healthcare scheme
• Employee wellbeing initiatives