Mid-weight Creative Team

Are you a Mid Weight Creative team with a passion for all things sport, entertainment and lifestyle? Do you want to create thought provoking work and inclusive work with some of the most prestigious brands in the world. Do you have an established body of work that spans all social channels? Read on!

About Us

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment creates change for brands by making them culturally relevant in people’s passions. We forge enduring connections between brands and consumers through their love of sport, entertainment, and culture.

Our clients include, adidas, Amstel, Ballantine’s, Barclaycard, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Dettol, Dreams, Heineken, Kia, Old El Paso, UEFA Women’s Euro England 2022, Virgin Media O2 and WHOOP. With offices in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sydney, New York and Johannesburg, a team of specialists deliver the agency’s core disciplines across sport, entertainment, and lifestyle, including sponsorship consultancy, rights amplification, PR, branded content creation & experiential production.

Our work has been awarded across the board, including six-time Agency of the Year at the Sport Industry Awards and two-time large Agency of the Year at the UK Sponsorship Awards. The agency is driven by the philosophy of ‘Brutal Simplicity of Thought’, which has been the M&C Saatchi (UK) Group’s mantra since birth: simple messages are the most powerful, making Brutal Simplicity of Thought more valid today than ever before.

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment sits within the M&C Saatchi Group. Beyond this, the M&C Saatchi global network spans 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.

We’re not an advertising agency, we’re a passions agency. And passion is a much more powerful and fruitful space for brands and creatives to be in.

M&C Saatchi Sports & Entertainment is an environment where people come to do the best work of their lives. A place with the power of diversity, talent, and a safe space to bring to life the most provocative ideas that will create the most talked about brands in the world.

About the Role:

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for a Mid Weight Creative team who think ideas first not format first.

We have offices in both London & Amsterdam and this role will cover clients across both offices. The role will be based in London. With 3 days a week in our Golden Square office.

As a Mid Weight Creative team in Sport & Entertainment you’ll be working across a variety of prestigious brands creating and producing outstanding creative work on some of the best briefs in the industry.

We want you to have your finger on the pulse of pop, entertainment and sport culture. A team who’ve done great work across TikTok, Instagram etc. developing campaigns that are at the cutting edge of culture.

Concepting

The team will take on briefs from across our client base and across multiple channels, working to create innovative and impactful ideas for our clients. These can be a mix of big stand out creative ideas and platforms, as well as tactical briefs and pitch work.

Craft & Delivery

Ensuring ideas stay brilliant from page to reality by remaining involved in productions and ensuring our creative work is executed brilliantly. This will involve working closely with the design, account, experiential and production teams.

Creative Culture

We are a creative company, but the team will play a key in driving our creative culture and output, working closely with account, studio and production teams to bring creative ideas to fruition.

Indispensable qualities

• Desire for and commitment to inclusive storytelling
• Passion for sport and/or entertainment
• Culturally connected with society trends especially GenZ needs and aspirations
• Highly connected and on top of the latest social media channels trends like TikTok
• Strong opinions but good listener
• And most importantly nice to hang out and work with

Key responsibilities

• Deliver creatively daring, innovative and inclusive response to briefs across all the channels we work in, providing clear solutions to client challenges. We are a truly channel agnostic agency
• Develop excellent relationships with the account and studio teams in the agency and assist them in pushing for greater creative ambition and execution
• Increase the creative standard across the business by showing a dedication to brilliant ideas and fantastic craft in execution
• Work across multiple teams, clients, and stakeholders

Please make sure you add a link to your portfolio or we will not be able to consider your application. 

What we offer

For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package with private healthcare, dental, employer contributory pension, life assurance and income protection. We also offer a host of benefits that support wellbeing including subsided gym membership, a day off for your birthday, free breakfast, and lunch, whilst our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sees us offer learning opportunities around DE&I, targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in a number of active Employee Led Networks and associated events. Finally, this role will be supported with all the necessary personal development required to set someone up for success.

The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry and society. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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