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As a Group Creative Director, you’ll lead the campaign-focused arm of the creative function, overseeing diverse creative disciplines to deliver locally resonant and culturally relevant work that aligns with strategic objectives. We are looking for someone who is passionate about seeking new opportunities to create impactful work.
Provide leadership and direction through Group and/or Senior Managers, overseeing diverse creative disciplines or departments.
Develop and adapt creative strategy to achieve key business objectives, ensuring a "social-first" and unified approach.
Oversee campaign-led creative output across multiple teams, ensuring all work resonates with local audiences and is optimised for engagement across social and digital platforms.
Ensure operational excellence by developing and maintaining streamlined workflows and best practices across the group.
Collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders with competing objectives, including executive leadership and other department heads.
Make decisions that are guided by organisational and functional strategies, focusing on achieving key business objectives.
Lead other creative leaders, fostering a culture of high performance and creativity.
Be accountable for the performance and results of a large, strategic function.
Be responsible for the development of talent across their group, ensuring the team is equipped to meet future challenges.
Executive Leadership: Proven ability to lead and direct diverse disciplines or a large, strategic function.
Strategic Development: Extensive experience in developing and executing functional or departmental strategy to achieve business objectives.
Organisational Influence: Strong ability to make decisions that are guided by organizational and functional strategies, impacting multiple disciplines.
Commercial Acumen: Understanding of the commercial aspects of the business and the ability to define new models for flexible staffing and competitive offerings.
Strategic Visionary: Proven ability to develop and execute a creative strategy that aligns with the broader business objectives.
Enterprise Leader: Experience being accountable for a significant portion of the creative business and providing leadership through a layer of senior managers.
Inspirational: Ability to motivate and guide a team to produce consistently high-quality and innovative work.
Eligibility Compliance: Ability to meet local employment requirements.
Cultural Insight: Deep understanding of local cultural dynamics and audience behavior within the Dutch market.
Language Fluency: Proven experience delivering work that resonates with Dutch-speaking audiences, enabling authentic and effective communication.
Market Familiarity: Strong familiarity with the Dutch media and campaign landscape, ensuring creative strategies are locally relevant and impactful.
At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.