Senior Creative (Copywriter) - native ENG

DEPT®; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

OpenUp health contribution

Multisport programme

Job summary

DEPT® is seeking a Senior Creative Copywriter to join our Creative & Media teams. You’ll develop campaign ideas, shape brand narratives, and bring briefs to life through storytelling for Dutch and international brands.

You’ll collaborate with an Art Director, Designers, Strategists, and Social Creatives to craft integrated campaigns and content ecosystems, blending culture with data-driven insights and delivering campaigns across multiple touchpoints.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Creative in an agency with a strong portfolio showcasing integrated campaigns and original storytelling.
• Excellent English skills, capable of working with Dutch and international brands.
• Ability to use humor in campaigns, creating engaging and memorable content.
• A proactive mindset with a small agency mentality with a drive to take initiative, lead projects, and deliver results without waiting for direction.
• Keen interest in digital trends and social media.

Responsibilities

• Deliver standout campaign ideas and creative concepts for a diverse range of brands.
• Conceptualize, pitch, and bring your creative ideas to life.
• Focus on digital to unlock tomorrow’s possibilities.
• Approach creativity with a strategic mindset, incorporating cultural trends, data, and insights.
• Collaborate with our digital, media, and social experts.
• Move beyond TV-first thinking to create content for 360-degree campaigns that work across all touchpoints.

Skills

Portfolio

English proficiency

Humor in campaigns

Initiative

Digital trends

Job description

JOB PURPOSE

This role is part of our Creative & Media teams. Our team is a vibrant mix of talents, ranging from Creatives, Influencer Marketers, Brand & Content Strategists to Account Managers, Programmatic and Marketing Automation Consultants. Together, we blend imaginative storytelling and performance-driven strategies with cutting-edge technology to create engaging digital experiences that build lasting relationships with our clients.

We’re looking for a Senior Creative Copywriter who combines strong conceptual thinking with exceptional writing craft. Someone who can develop campaign ideas, shape brand narratives, and bring clarity to complex briefs through compelling storytelling.

You’ll work closely with an Art Director partner, Designers, Strategists, and Social Creatives to develop integrated campaigns, creative platforms, and content ecosystems for both Dutch and international brands. While your expertise lies in words, your thinking extends far beyond copy. You understand how ideas come to life across channels, audiences, and touchpoints. You are a proactive and digitally savvy creative, ready to generate original ideas that help our clients stay ahead. Your concepts will be rooted in culture—focused on building brands rather than just adding to the noise.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives on building brands, loves solving creative problems, and can confidently move between campaign concepts, messaging frameworks, social-first thinking, and long-form storytelling.

You will be responsible for creating campaigns for a range of well-known clients, both local and international.

Our creative department is evolving and comprises a mix of talented creatives and specialists in media, social, and technology, all working together to showcase the best DEPT has to offer. You’ll bring the ability to sell your ideas with flair, backing them up with strategic insights, trends, and data to create memorable advertising.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Deliver standout campaign ideas and creative concepts for a diverse range of brands.


• Conceptualize, pitch, and bring your creative ideas to life.


• Focus on digital to unlock tomorrow’s possibilities.


• Approach creativity with a strategic mindset, incorporating cultural trends, data, and insights.


• Collaborate with our digital, media, and social experts.


• Move beyond TV-first thinking to create content for 360-degree campaigns that work across all touchpoints.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Extensive experience as a Creative in an agency with a strong portfolio showcasing integrated campaigns and original storytelling.


• Excellent English skills, capable of working with Dutch and international brands.


• Ability to use humor in campaigns, creating engaging and memorable content.


• A proactive mindset with a small agency mentality with a drive to take initiative, lead projects, and deliver results without waiting for direction.


• Keen interest in digital trends and social media.

WE OFFER

• Hybrid working policy.


• Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the OpenUp platform, and a multisport programme.


• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021.


• Awesome clients. Whether big, small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with all of them. And we celebrate all of our successes together!


• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.


• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

WHY DEPT®?

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.