Overview:

We are looking for an experienced and highly creative Creative Director to lead the Creative Department and drive the development of high-quality, impactful creative work across multiple platforms.

The role combines creative leadership, team management, client engagement, resource planning, and commercial awareness to ensure creative projects are delivered to a high standard, within agreed timelines, budgets, and scope.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead creative direction across major campaigns, projects, pitches, tenders, and client presentations.

• Set and maintain 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 creative resources based on project requirements, deadlines, priorities, and team capacity.

• Monitor workload, utilization, overtime, freelance requirements, and external creative resources.

• Identify project risks, resource constraints, scope changes, and potential overruns and escalate them proactively.

• Establish effective creative workflows covering briefing, concept development, review, presentation, revisions, approval, and production handover.

• Ensure projects have clear briefs, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements before creative development begins.

• Review and approve creative work before client submission.

• Work closely with Account Management, Strategy, Production, Operations, and Technology teams to ensure smooth project delivery.

• Present and defend creative concepts and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.

• Manage client feedback and revisions while protecting the overall creative direction and strategic objectives.

• Brief and manage freelancers, photographers, illustrators, animators, and other creative partners when required.

• Maintain creative quality and consistency throughout the production process.

• Lead creative contributions to tenders, pitches, and business-winning opportunities.

• Support the improvement of pitch-to-win conversion and overall commercial performance.

• Identify capability gaps, succession needs, development requirements, and recruitment needs within the Creative team.

• Conduct regular coaching, feedback, performance reviews, and development discussions.

• Balance creative ambition with budgets, timelines, resources, and commercial objectives.

• Stay current with creative trends, emerging technologies, platforms, consumer behavior, and industry developments.

• Ensure consistent messaging and visual identity across channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Advertising, Graphic Design, Communication Arts, Fine Arts, Marketing, or a related discipline.

• 3–5 years of experience as a Creative Group Head or equivalent senior creative leadership role.

• Previous Creative Director experience is highly desirable.

• Strong experience in campaign development, creative direction, pitches, tenders, and client presentations.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating multi-platform campaigns, creative direction, and business-winning work.

• Experience with retail brands, digital activations, promotional campaigns, content marketing, or events is an advantage.

• Strong understanding of branding, marketing strategy, consumer behavior, and creative development.

• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. After Effects is an advantage.

• Strong conceptual, visual storytelling, art direction, or copywriting capabilities.

• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop creative teams.

• Strong project, resource, budget, and deadline management skills.

• Excellent presentation, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced agency environment.

• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of project budgets and business objectives.

• Highly creative, organized, motivated, and detail-oriented.