Responsibilities
- Generate ideas and see them through to completion after understanding client requirements.
- Work in teams both internal and external to develop creative outputs and thereafter discussing the same with the client
- Work with external agencies like producers, photographers, editors
- Ensuring that our high quality of creative and production is upheld, maintaining consistently high standards for him/herself and others on the team
- Listening, asking, hearing, prioritizing and translating client situation, marketing goals and information into strategic brand/ campaign/ project concepts, voice, messages and rationales
- Collaborating and contributing to the creative process as a leader of a creative team, and as a member of the account team
- Co-leading the unified creative/account management process in order to execute on client projects
- Ensuring the professional development and readiness of the creative team
- Make decisions on a daily basis that ensure both profitability and creative quality
- Set expectations and standards (build a culture) for creative team attitude, behavior, teamwork and professional development.
- Study the creative marketplace, assessing where Ogilvy’s work stands against competitors’, as well as our clients’ competitors’ creative work.
- Drive constant improvement in Ogilvy’s creative quality and capabilities.
- Valued as a routine contributor of informed, analytical and strategic contributions to new program development / business opportunities.
- Assure that timely and informative communication takes place between the creative function and account team and clients
- Contribute to the strategic and creative development of the agency’s marketing and branding efforts for new business development
Requirements
- Superior leadership and collaboration skills
- Superior problem solving and decision-making skills
- Excellence in managing and motivating staff
- Excellent communication and persuasion skills
- Understanding of advertising and marketing principles
- Understanding of marcom strategies and tactics, including technologies.
- Ability to judge creative concepts and copy, and clearly communicate creative direction to others
- Thorough understanding of clients and their business/industry
- Excellent presentation skills
- Thorough understanding of art direction
- Understanding of on and offline marcom elements production
- Communication, planning, time-management and follow-through skills
- Excellent knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
Work Arrangement
On-site — HCMC
