Creative Director

You will be both a hands-on creative leader and a strategic partner, setting creative ambition in line with each client’s brand purpose and building their brand for ‘what’s next’. This could mean shaping the future of their product or service, redefining category dynamics, transforming audience experiences, or sparking cultural conversations that drive fame and impact. 

As Brand Creative Director, you will be the agency’s champion for creative excellence, setting the standard for breakthrough thinking and inspiring teams to deliver work that is not only effective, but truly transformative for our clients’ brands. 

Key Responsibilities

Creative Excellence Leadership: 

• Set and uphold the highest standards of creative output across the agency, ensuring all work aspires to and achieves creative excellence. 
• Act as a role model and mentor, inspiring teams to push boundaries and deliver work that is bold, original, and culturally resonant. 
• Champion a culture of creative bravery, experimentation, and continuous improvement. 

Brand Leadership: 

• Own and nurture client relationships at Marketing Director/CMO level, acting as a trusted advisor and creative partner. 
• Set and uphold the creative vision for client brands, ensuring all work is aligned with brand purpose and future ambitions. 

Hands-on Craft: 

• Remain close to the work, inspiring teams and contributing to the creative process to deliver outstanding, brand-building ideas. 

Outrageous Impact: 

• Evaluate and champion work based on the impact it will have on the client’s brand, business, audience, and culture—driving fame, sparking conversation, and creating noise beyond the media plan. 

Strategic Partnership: 

• Collaborate with strategy, media, and analytics teams to ensure ideas are insight-driven, audience-relevant, and measurable. 

Team Development: 

• Mentor and grow multidisciplinary creative teams, nurturing talent and fostering a culture of proactive creativity and innovation. 

Client Portfolio Growth: 

• Take on increasing responsibility for larger, more complex client portfolios, including multi-market and integrated brands. 

Community Focus: 

• Build and nurture a creative community, attracting and developing the next generation of creative talent. 

Qualifications & Skills

• Proven experience leading brand and creative strategy at a top-tier agency or brand. 
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain senior client partnerships (Marketing Director/CMO level). 
• Strong conceptual thinking, storytelling, and craft skills. 
• A portfolio of work that has driven brand fame, cultural impact, and business results. 
• Confident, articulate presenter and advisor, comfortable with senior stakeholders. 
• Experience managing and mentoring creative teams. 
• Passion for nurturing transformative, proactive creativity. 
• Tenacious, optimistic leader with a clear vision and appetite for innovation. 
• Appreciation for design, brand systems, and tonal versatility. 
• Modern thinker, culturally savvy, and eager to leverage new technologies (including AI) to elevate creative output. 

Joining Dentsu Creative, you will be part of a creative network, delivering ideas at the intersection of brand, culture, and commerce. In an age when brands are built and grown in altogether new ways we espouse humility alongside practical flexible problem solving. 

On your journey you will partner with inspiring people across the world and become part of a truly inclusive culture where everyone is given the opportunity to thrive and create the best work of their careers; always learning and always listening to shape ideas, create culture and change behavior. By bringing together the capabilities, experience and relationships of our collective experts, the opportunities for personal growth and development are endless.  

What we offer

• This is a permanent role  
• The team is based in our London office but operates under flexible working arrangements. The team are currently in the office every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 
• As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

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