M+C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment creates change for brands through people’s passions. As the world’s leading passion-marketing agency, we're a mixed bag of sports-loving, culture-seeking, trend-hunting, creative communications experts. We span the spectrum of passion-marketing, from sport, film and entertainment, to style, food and wellness - and every emerging and niche trend in between.

Our work reflects the new ways audiences cultivate their passions, consume media and share stories by delivering integrated communications campaigns including but not limited to sponsorship, experiential, PR, social and content.

The Opportunity

The Earned Creative Director will lead the creation of earned-first ideas across M+C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment and the wider Group, ensuring work is bold, newsworthy, and culturally resonant. With a background in PR and social, you know how to get brands talked about. You’ll collaborate across disciplines to develop integrated campaigns spanning influencer, social, partnerships, content, and activations. A strategic thinker and natural storyteller, you know how to spot cultural opportunities, write compelling narratives, and sell big ideas. You thrive on impact, inspire creative thinking, and bring a fresh perspective to solving briefs through an earned lens.

A Snapshot Of What You'll Do

• Drive brilliance in earned-first ideas, craft, and strategy
• Ensure creative work delivers on brief and aligns with brand strategy
• Generate original ideas and oversee, review, and approve the work of others
• Partner with teams to uncover newsworthy, earned-first opportunities that connect brands with culture
• Proactively develop speculative ideas and identify growth opportunities
• Contribute to pitches across M+C Saatchi Group
• Lead creative meetings with clients, clearly articulating the creative vision
• Mentor and up-skill colleagues across disciplines in earned and shareable thinking
• Play a key role in the Passions & PR leadership team, driving growth and industry recognition
• Collaborate regularly with Creative Directors across the Group to share ideas, best practice, and inspiration
• Plus much more!

Your Ideal Experience

• 7+ years of experience in PR agency environments, working across diverse industries and teams
  
• Proven experience collaborating within integrated marketing teams and effectively communicating with clients
  
• Strong communication, organisational, and writing skills, with a proven ability to multitask and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  
• Enthusiasm for learning new skills, approaches, applications, and media to stay ahead of industry trends
  
• A calm, positive, and collaborative demeanour that inspires team members and clients alike
  
• Strong initiative, personal drive, and an entrepreneurial attitude to tackle tasks of all sizes in support of client success and the agency’s vision

M+C Saatchi Group Ambition

At M+C Saatchi Group, our ambition is to create and curate Cultural Power for our clients. We do this by connecting specialist expertise, powered by creativity, data and technology, to help build famous brands, solve the most complex business and societal challenges.

Cultural Power needs diversity of thinking, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, individuals with disabilities, those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature-age workers, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Our flexible work policies, employee-led diversity networks, and inclusive career development initiatives reflect our core value, ‘Walk in Different Worlds,’ which drives our DE&I mission. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

What WE Value MOST

• Walk in different worlds
• Make Uncommon Sense
• Run Towards the Fire (except if there is an actual fire when we run away from it)
• Roll as one
• Be excellent to each other
  

Best Bits About Working With Us

Our big benefits fuel our big ambitions. We’re here to support and encourage our people at every turn. Our commitment to your individual needs stems from our diverse Flexible Flexibility work approach, flexing to how you want to work and how you want to take your leave. You’ll be saying "hello holidays" with our flexible public holidays, summer half day’s and even extra leave for taking your leave. And, to further our support to you, Family First, Health and Wellness paid leave are on offer, along with our Work From Anywhere in the world initiative (so you can stay connected across the globe). Plus, you can join our inclusive community led networks, supporting things you care about and your cultural and social wellbeing.

WHAT ARE YOUR BIG AMBITIONS?

We’d love to hear what your ambitions are and how we can help you realise them with us!

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