Creative Director

As Creative Director for one of the largest automotive companies in the world, you will work with the GCD and ECD on the evolution of all creative and marketing expressions for the brands and sub-brands. You will be collaborating with a team of creative practitioners that develop groundbreaking digital experiences, social campaigns, experiential engagements, assets at scale production, and future innovation opportunities. In practice, this means steering the team towards excellence while also actively participating in hands-on creative development and production with your exceptional writing skills. This pivotal position requires you to navigate multiple responsibilities, serving as both creator and supervisor simultaneously. You have exceptionally high standards in your work, elevating craft, inspiring impact in ourselves and our skills. You bring a progressive creative instinct and bold vision to the work and you know how to nurture teams and talent to do the best work of their careers. You will always be across multiple projects.

You will work closely with account leadership on how we continue to grow and support our strong relationship with one of the largest automotive companies in the world. Also pivotal to your success in this role is having a strong partnership with the other discipline leads and contributing to an environment of teamwork and mutual understanding. You will need to work collaboratively and inclusively across brand, strategy, product, content and integrated marketing teams through a variety of opportunities while also supporting your ever-growing creative team. Of equal importance is your influencing prowess with clients while ever being humble and adaptable. 

Key Responsibilities

• Creative Leadership and Accountability: 
• Partner with the Group Creative Director, and other Creative Directors in elevating creative expression of the client brands to new levels of creative excellence.
• Provide creative direction and inspiration to client projects and teams. Guide the conceptual and aesthetic direction of campaigns and branded messaging. 
• Provide input into the allocation of creative resources and talent to ensure optimal team performance and project success.
• Comfortable presenting ideas, concepts, craft language that builds on strategic positioning, and working collaboratively to deliver polished output with succinct, smart headlines and efficient body copy. 
• You clearly convey your ideas and back them up with strategic rationale. This is done in conjunction with team members you work with and/or delegate to. 
• Improve accountability across your creative teams through stellar management, building strong morale and cultivating a positive creative environment.
• Active contributor for ideation on all projects and pitches for our key client brands.

Client Interaction and Building Trust: 

• Work closely with multiple senior and day-to-day clients and teams to understand their vision and objectives. Present creative concepts and ideas persuasively. Foster strong relationships with clients, ensuring their needs are met and expectations exceeded.
• Participate in potential new business pitches and ongoing organic new business development.
• Support and aid the GCD/ECD in the development of our creative practice, with a focus on evolving processes in our own ways of working and creation.

Client Strategy and Business Growth: 

• Work closely with senior business leaders to shape growth strategies for creative services and team up with cross-functional teams to tackle client goals, challenges, and opportunities.
• Maintain and manage positive client relationships, serving as a reliable creative ally, and guaranteeing client satisfaction and retention.
• Collaborate with clients to devise creative strategies and solutions that align with their business objectives and catalyze results.

Innovation and Creative Process: 

• Contribute to the creative process from concept ideation to production, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and innovative work. Critique all major deliverables, ensuring they meet our standards. Participates and presents work alongside CDs in Executive Creative Leadership reviews of in-production work.
• Drive innovation and creativity, setting new industry standards and ensuring that the company's work is smart, creative, and innovative.
  
  

Quality Assurance: 

• Provide clear, focused, feedback to your creative teams regarding improvements that could be made to the work, the department and the agency.
• Oversee the creation of high-quality, impactful work, from campaigns to design to assets at scale to experiential work and more.

Ensures that the work is best-in-class and award worthy.

About You

The essentials:

• • You have 10+ years global experience working for a wide range of clients and brands, ideally agency and/or on client-side.
  • You have a strong desire to build and nurture diverse teams and nurture diverse perspectives, empowering the voices that are both close and abroad. 
  • You inherently understand digital and think way beyond traditional ad formats and budgets, with an exceptional creative background. 
  • You are not afraid of leveraging data and research to help identify unique opportunities for the brand and be able to represent creative vision and philosophy.
  • Ability to think clearly and contribute constructively to discussions and strategy during the entire creative process, from concept through production.
  • You are self-motivated, hard working, and work well in a fast-paced environment. 
  • A people first mentality and experience in building a best-in-class global creative team.
  • Automotive and production experience is highly desired.  
  • A proven track record in creating excellent work. 

  Your Work Style:

  • Hunger to be a subject matter expert in order to write relatable product-focused copy.
  • Collaborative with strategic, brand, creative, production and media partners.
  • Deep knowledge of the copy discipline, with an understanding of the disciplines that fall just outside.
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to connect creative ideas with business objectives.
  • Self-motivated, resilient and adaptable, able to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • A finger on the pulse of creative cultures and technologies.
  • Uphold equity, inclusion and accessibility through all aspects of the job. 

  Working Conditions:

  • The role may involve long hours and tight deadlines, requiring flexibility and a commitment to maintaining high standards under pressure. Collaboration with teams across different locations and time zones is frequently necessary.

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.