CREATIVE DIRECTOR - COPY

About the position

Our creative team is made up of fearless thinkers who hone their craft with brutal simplicity of thought. We are looking for a Creative Director - Copywriter to partner with a CD Art Director to own projects and build client relationships.

About the Role

Below is a snapshot of what you’ll do:

• Challenge creative briefs while understanding project requirements to create change-making work.
• Produce clear, consistently fresh and surprising ideas and compelling copy.
• Showcase and nurture award-winning talent. . You will do this by line managing junior to senior creatives and report to the ECD/CCO.
• Work in a close-knit creative partnership with an Art Director and Creative Lead to generate campaign ideas and see them through from concepts to completion.
• Amend, revise, or redevelop campaigns in response to feedback from the ECD or clients.
• Champion of participation brands and marketing.
• Reviewing efficiency of team with regards to profitability
• Create the right structure for the best teaming for respective clients.

You bring (required):

• 10+ years of agency experience.
• A good portfolio with the potential to become a creative titan. With 2-3 examples of great work.

As a bonus, you bring:

• Regional GCC experience.
• Recent award wins at regional or global award shows.
• Have examples of compelling, change-making work for Real Estate clients.
• Experience of working on luxury, destination clients

You are:

• A fearless thinker.
• A rockstar Copywriter with a genuine passion for writing while maintaining high standards for executions and attention to tone.
• Strong interpersonal skills; a team player, persuasive negotiator, positive and innovative thinker.
• Fearless protector of the high creative criteria within the agency. Ensures nothing below the bar gets out the door.
• A problem solver who inspires by example and brings out the best in the creative teams.
• A client’s favourite creative face, one who increasingly makes the CCO redundant.

What We Offer

For the right team member, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes;

• Great holidays: 23 days annual holiday, plus birthday day off.
• Great flexibility: 10 days of working from anywhere in the world.
• Great benefits: private healthcare plan and perks.
• Great professional development: a mentoring programme at a global level and generous training budgets to support your career pathway, and
• Great fun: celebration days to socialise, bond and learn together.

About Us

We were born out of the need for strategic and brutally effective creativity in the region. With every successful campaign, we have grown, and cherry-picked the best professionals to work with us from all over the region and the world. In 2012, we opened our Abu Dhabi office and expanded the team with our Dubai office in 2016. From these offices we manage a number of local and global brands in Europe, GCC and of course the UAE. Brutal Simplicity of Thought is the creative philosophy of M&C Saatchi. It defines the way we work and the work we produce. We believe: "It’s easier to complicate than simplify. Simple ideas enter the brain quicker and stay there longer. Brutal Simplicity of Thought is therefore a painful necessity."

About M&C Saatchi Group

M&C Saatchi Group is a creative federation of companies who navigate, create, and lead meaningful change for clients across five specialist divisions connected through people, culture, data, technology and creativity, M&C Saatchi Group aims to unlock new value for clients and leave a positive impact on the world.

M&C Saatchi Group’s work is informed by two core principles - Brutal Simplicity of Thought and Diversity of Thought. Together they guide how problems are solved and integrated specialist teams are built. Headquartered in London, M&C Saatchi Group have circa 2,500 employees globally of which 720 employees are UK based. Our operations span 23 countries with major hubs in in the UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.