PepsiCo is looking for a Creative Director.
Your Mission:
Company is looking for high energy, highly innovative individuals to join growing in-house creative agency team. This is a real opportunity for an ambitious individual to make their mark on the Ad industry in Russia. Lead the creative vision and execution within the internal agency. You will be creative guardian, helping to translate the objectives and goals of the business, inspire the team, and to push the work.
Culture:
Help foster a culture of curiosity, drive, collaboration and passion within own team and with clients, the brand teams. No egos please. They work as a team and they are here to help each other out and to drive a massive shift in the brand performance for PepsiCo by disrupting from the inside.
Commercial:
Help company to make the difference and to prove what they’re doing works.
Relationships:
Build strong relationships with the Brand Directors. Act as a thought partner to help them with brand problems and to grow their brand.
Responsibilities:
- Creatively directs, manages and oversees internal creative, digital, social and design work
- Ensures the integration of human insights, media and new media, and creative best practices are embedded into the creative development process
- Lead, inspire and develop the creative team
- Help to build out an “in-house” team of creative teams and designers that will be responsible for executing creative vision across multiple brands
- Develop expertise against a specific brand priority, brand drive or business category
- Provide constructive feedback and approvals on designers projects
- Maintain brand consistency
- Help identify ways to scale and run the department more efficiently
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Minimum 8+ years experience in creative agency, ideally as creative director or art director
- Strategic experience
- Act as a creative shepherd having proven experience in managing, developing and inspiring creatives
- Worked on FMCG brands
- Big picture minded coupled with being results oriented
- Ability to influence, tell a story, synthesize and convey key messages and present in a visual and compelling way
- Ability to build compelling narratives around brands’ purpose and translating that into action that builds businesses
- Proven ability to articulate clearly goals and objectives and effectively elevate strategic concerns to senior level management in a timely and accurate manner
- Ability to work cooperatively with staff, share ideas and develop effective responses
- Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and geographies
- Proficiency with Adobe creative suite
- Strong consumer empathy and consumer-centricity
- Proven collaboration abilities between internal brand teams and partner agencies
- The ability to work autonomously
- The ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands, changes and to prioritize team workload