Executive Creative Director

UNAVAILABLE; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative agency in health is seeking an Executive Creative Director to define their creative culture, manage a senior creative team, and drive new business efforts. This role requires strong creative leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to bridge teams and clients. The ideal candidate will have an award-winning portfolio and experience in communication campaign development across various channels. This position offers a hybrid work model and a range of excellent benefits.

Benefits

WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity

Flexible well-being days

24/7 helpline for personal support

Family-friendly policies

Flexible holiday swaps

Local discount memberships

Qualifications

• Award-winning creative portfolio.
• Experience in communication campaign development.
• Strong conceptual and strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a creative vision that engages and inspires.
• Attract and retain top industry talent.
• Lead cross-functional teams to achieve creative excellence.

Skills

Creative leadership

Strategic thinking

Presentation skills

Job description

Company Description

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness is a full-service creative agency operating in the health and wellness space. Our purpose is to unleash the ‘Wellness Effect’ in every person through meaningful personalised experiences, because we achieve greater outcomes when we are fully engaged in our wellness. We believe when our people do well, our work does well, our clients do well, and our patients do well, inspiring even more wellness in the world. We sum it up in two small words… Do Well.

That’s the what, but the how is guided by four defining principles – curious, creative, discerning, brave. These are the values we look for and nurture in others and ourselves, underpinning as they do a culture of collaborative entrepreneurialism that drives high-performance.

Job Description

As our Executive Creative Director, you will define the agency’s creative culture. This is a culture that recognises the commercial value of creative innovation and excellence in award-winning craft and execution.

Responsibilities and reach in this role are extensive and you will play a pivotal role as the creative conduit between teams, clients and partners always seeking better ways to enhance the quality and impact of our work.

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), you will represent the Creative Craft and will be looked to you for guidance and leadership in developing outstanding communications and campaigns across a portfolio of clients and brands.

SSW has significant responsibilities across some of GSK’s most important global brands. In your role, you will act to support and build those relationships fully, working with colleagues in London and across markets.

Responsibility and stewardship of the SSW brand will also form part of your remit, and you will join our established Brand Team to ensure that we show up strongly to our internal external audiences.

Day to day, you will directly manage and mentor a Senior Creative Team, including a Creative Director and Associate Creative Directors.

Understanding that new business is the lifeblood of any agency; you will actively and expertly drive efforts to attract new assignments, stepping into lead pitches directly.

It is also expected that you will have a high degree of commercial acumen, appreciating the operating requirements of the business and the need to balance creative reputation with growth and revenues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver an evolving creative vision that engages, inspires and differentiates the agency from its competition
• Attract, recruit and retain the best industry talent
• In partnership with the SLT, optimise and restructure teams, systems and operations to deliver the most creative and efficient work for our clients
• Identify and close skills gaps where they exist
• Stay connected with the wider creative community and maintain contacts to remain current and relevant
• Build effective training plans using internal and external partners to motivate and upskill teams
• Actively engage with emerging AI tools and understand their application and value to our work and clients
• Work directly with Publicis Groupe’s internal production teams – Prodigious, PXP etc.
• Work closely with the Strategy and Account Teams, ensuring that all creative work is strongly rooted in our clients’ commercial aspirations i.e., work that works
• Develop flexible creative platforms that help our clients connect with their audiences through a range of experiences and touchpoints
• Coach and develop people across the business at every opportunity
• Evaluate and steer conceptual thinking and creative execution across the team
• Ensure that creative presentations to the client and internally meet the highest professional standards
• Oversee the selection of work for external promotion and award entries
• Build relationships with external award bodies to ensure visibility of the agency and its people
• Develop case-studies to enhance agency credentials
• Act always as an advocate for the value of creativity as it relates to the healthcare industry today
• Lead and participate in new business development
• Encourage cross-discipline working and collaboration
• Showcase and share creative work across the team, disciplines and broader agency
• Be the external creative voice for the agency

Qualifications

Whilst you do not need to have direct experience of working in health, you will be passionate about taking the opportunity to join a sector where brand purpose is baked in.

You are an experienced industry professional with proven creative leadership and well-developed general agency management skills. As the creative figurehead for the agency, you will also be a highly regarded industry figure, with an award-winning creative portfolio of your own. This, combined with your enviable presentation skills, infectious vision and pragmatic approach make you a natural champion of great work.

As a strong conceptual and strategic thinker, you believe in the power of creativity to create business advantage. You have demonstrable expertise in communication campaign development, along with a well-developed appreciation of user-design and execution across multiple channels and touchpoints. You are also deeply committed to craft, believing that the work must be as beautiful as it is useful.

Your personal portfolio demonstrates your experience in creating awarded and effective communication across multiple and integrated digital channels, ranging from film, print, direct, outdoor, design/branding, social, websites, apps and experiential.

Despite health being highly regulated, you will see this role as an opportunity to bring your skills into a space where you are able to solve sometimes complex problems and impact people’s lives positively. Helping our clients increase their connectivity to their audiences, and in turn, supporting those audiences to improve their health and well-being.

Additional Information

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• “YOU” DAYS – flexibility to take a day off for your well-being and self-care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief-based day of your choosing.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

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