Creative Director
Creative Directors are the driving force in all creative departments and are responsible for leading the creative output of the agency, ensuring that the best possible work is being produced for clients at all times. They are the figurehead for the agency’s creative reputation.
Creative Directors will have come through the creative ranks, most often from either an Art Director or Copywriter background. Having said that, away from the advertising agency world Creative Directors in brand, design, or digital agencies will more likely have come through the design ranks. What’s always consistent is their creative vision and their clear leadership qualities.
What sets them apart and allows them to make the transition from talented creative, to leader, is their ability to inspire their teams to develop the best possible creative ideas and to build an environment that allows creative talent to flourish and ideas to thrive.
Creative Directors need to combine outstanding creative vision with a strong commercial understanding and an ability to inspire both their teams, the wider agency and their clients. As such they’ll invariably be a skilled presenter and story teller. Creative Directors are a key part of the agency management and leadership team, with overall responsibility for the creative department.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Establishing the agency’s creative philosophy, strategy and objectives,
- Representing the agency at industry events, panels and groups.
- Managing the work, performance and professional development of creative teams
- Ensuring that work is both creatively outstanding and effective, whilst also consistent with client’s brand guidelines/objectives
- Pitching ideas and campaigns to existing and potential clients.
Depending on the size/type of agency, Creative Directors are sometimes also called Creative Partner, Design Director, Executive Creative Director and other such combinations. Salary wise outside of London the role generally pays between £68,000 to £120,000 depending on regional variance and level of experience.
Shropshire
From our Birmingham and Manchester offices, through our 10+ years experience operating within the Marketing, PR, brand and communications industry, we have gained valuable knowledge of how our markets operate.
Supplying both Permanent and Temporary staff, we specialise in the FMCG, Software, Manufacturing, Retail, E-Commerce, Charity, Technology, Agency and Professional Service sectors to name a few.
Below you will see all the roles we are currently recruiting for in Shropshire. However if you are willing to search outside of this area, also have a look at all of our current roles.
Considering relocating?
Shropshire is a huge and truly glorious scattering of hills, castles and timber-framed villages tucked against the Welsh border. Highlights include food-obsessed Ludlow, industrial UNESCO World Heritage Site at Ironbridge and the beautiful Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers a quarter of the region and offers some of the best walking and cycling routes in the country.
This sleepy county's population and economy is centred on five towns: the county town of Shrewsbury, Telford, Wellington, Dawley, Madele, Oswestry and the picturesque Bridgnorth that spills over with holidaymakers in the heady summer months and Ludlow.
