Creative Excellence Manager - Maternity Cover

DDBLTDUK DDB UK Ltd; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 45 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

TBWA in London seeks a proactive Creative Awards & Relationships Manager to unite our creative community and oversee crucial relationships across Omnicom Advertising networks. You will contribute to award strategy, track talent for juries, and support campaigns across multiple regions.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to work across senior creatives. A flexible in-office presence three days a week is expected to support collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in creativity & project management
• 2+ years experience involving creative awards
• Excellent written & verbal English
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint, and presentation skills
• Experience working in or with Omnicom or global agencies is a plus

Responsabilités

• Being a key point of contact for OA networks for award shows and tracking talent for jury nominations
• Tracking OA networks' creative council processes
• Reporting and tracking results and supporting internal training sessions
• Lead jury nominations at OA level including briefings and judging support
• Identify and suggest talent for juries and maintain awards database
• Communicate results from award shows and maintain distribution lists

Connaissances

Relationship-building

Stakeholder management

Communication

Project coordination

Awards knowledge

Public speaking

Description du poste

Agency: TBWA

Job Function: Creative

Job Subfunction: Creative Services and Administration

Job Description

Bringing together our creative community and managing crucial relationships across the creative community at Omnicom Advertising, our creative excellence team brings the creative excellence community together, promoting collaboration to raise the bar on our creative product. The team ensures all creative excellence initiatives are running smoothly and efficiently and that the best work is developed and championed.

Responsibilities

• Being a key point of contact for our OA networks for award shows, feeding into award show strategy & relationships, tracking talent for jury nominations and mapping significant campaign launches.
• Tracking of OA’s networks creative council processes.
• Reporting and tracking results along with supporting the running of internal training sessions.
• Please note the successful candidate should be able to work from our London Office 3 days per week.
• Be a key point of contact and centre of knowledge across OA for key award shows across including: keeping up to date on changes and developments at key award shows and maintaining strong relationships with key awards shows & festivals.
• Have a thorough understanding of categories and knowledge of award-winning work.
• Providing submission support for our Networks, including tracking entries through the submission phases, fielding queries and maintain awards database.
• Deliver network-wide awards training.
• Lead jury nominations at the OA level – including running briefings, team liaison & support during judging.
• Identify and suggest talent for juries.
• Keep track of key projects from across OA.
• Be the key liaison with the comms team.
• Communicate results from award shows.
• Maintain internal distribution lists.

Skills & Behaviours

• Relationship-builder, striving for team and individual success
• Excellent & proactive communicator
• Ability to manage and negotiate complex relationships
• Quick problem-solver, ability to foresee and head off issues independently
• Strong collaborative spirit, diligent and consultative team-player
• Solid presenter/public speaker, able to simplify complex information
• Confidence in working with senior creative leaders and ability to manage upwards effectively
• Responsible and proactive, delivers to deadlines and adept at expectation management
• Wrangler of people, able to work with people of different disciplines and levels
• Diplomatic and able to give and receive critical feedback
• Highly organised, ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects
• Comfortable dealing with a large amount of information
• Able to create, manage new processes and systems
• Exceptional attention to detail, able to quality control others’ work

Background

• 5+ year’s experience in creativity & project management
• 2+ year’s experience involving creative awards
• Ad hoc travel
• Fluent Portuguese and/or Spanish speaker is a bonus
• Good written & verbal English
• Strong excel, PowerPoint, keynote skills
• Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.
• Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
• Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent.
• We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do.
• We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together.
• At Omnicom Group, careers are designed for growth.
• We’ve purposefully crafted a transformative talent experience built with accountability in action — focused on community, impact, and opportunity.