Our client, a global creative entertainment agency, is looking for an experienced Head of Creative to join their team. This is an unique opportunity to join the company at an exciting time in their development and the role will encompass working across brand partnerships, sync licensing, event & broadcast production as well as TV, Film and soundtrack partnerships. The ideal candidate will be an innovative, conceptual thinker with a strong commercial approach and an indepth understanding of music culture.
Main duties of the role will include:
- Development of creative format and visual content ideas for a range of brand partnership, broadcast and label projects
- Proactively responding to briefs and challenges with creative proposals
- Development of dynamic treatments and pitch materials
- Responsible for turning brand objectives into consumer compelling propositions: storytelling, clever use of assets, content creation, channel activation, etc.
- Responsible for identifying and pro-actively developing creative and innovative business solutions for existing and new brand partners
- Develop, present and effectively communicate how a creative vision will help achieve goals
- Produce state-of-the-art “pitch” documents for the account and new business teams
- Lead creative sessions/brainstorming with internal and external teams
- Collaborate with business leaders to translate business goals into unique brand and product experiences
- Be the clients inhouse expert on new creative technologies, new trends and cultural developments and make sure that team members are kept up to speed on developments in these areas
- Ensure that creative output adheres to brands standards and delivers business results
- Recognise trends in the use of entertainment, notably by brands and help develop new business models making use of varied assets to deliver significant profit
- Focused on client needs: anticipate, understand and respond to the needs of internal and external clients to meet and exceed their expectations within the organisational parameters
- Recognise trends in formats and artist content across all global broadcast platforms including non-scripted, narrative and performance
The successful candidate must:
- Be capable of delivering short compelling presentations / ‘pitches’ that will sell in a simple, logical and inspiring insights led “big ideas” to brand partners
- Be able to understand overall business goals and objectives from both the brand and label/ artist perspectives
- Have experience in creative and marketing innovation and expertise in creating culturally relevant solutions
- Have good copywriting and design skills which are used to effectively communicate concepts as well as superb communication/presentation skills
- Be able to work within short timeframes and under pressure
- Have a good understanding of broadcast, digital, mobile, social channels and experiential
- Have experience in all aspects of content production from development through to post
- Have strong/proven relationships with production and broadcast community – creatives, producers/directors, commissioners etc
Please email your CV to helen@themusicmartket.co.uk.
