Mid Art Director

Job Summary:

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As an Art Director, you are responsible for crafting innovative ideas and impactful designs,

using visual styles to bring life to bold creative ideas, conceptual development and crafted

storytelling across channels.

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Skills Required:

An M&C Art Director must possess the following skills in order to succeed.

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Conceptual Thinking:

• You're young and fresh and you bring your brave, new, diverse thoughts tobrainstorms.

• Speak up, have opinions and ideas.

• Ideas are your currency and strong conceptual thinking is key.

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Execution:

• You understand the brand you are visualising composing/designing a look and feel for.

• Be able to adapt to different visual styles and corporate identities.

• You should have a working knowledge of the Adobe Design suite (InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator)

• Never hand your work over unless it's been checked - mistakes can be costly.

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Presentation:

• You can present your work well internally and visualise your idea for reviews.

• You think it through and can justify why you've done what you've done.

• On the rare occasion you may present to clients, but only if you're brilliant at it.

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Production:

• While you are not responsible for choosing suppliers on your own, you show an

active interest in learning about production and the best suppliers to work with.

• You are curious and try and find answers to better understand.• When allowed in the door at production you are your CD’s right hand, supplying

titles and assets when needed.

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People & Relationship Management:

• You're not responsible for looking after anyone directly but work collaboratively in team.

• Your relationship with a copywriter is critical, you work together to bring work to life, and you don’t stand merely by as their design hands.

• You listen to those above you (and question by all means) and seek to form meaningful relationships with your colleagues across key departments as you bring a sense of energy, passion and fun into the Agency.

• In addition, raise your hand when help is required (even outside your remit or portfolio) and demonstrate a keenness and love towards the broader agency initiatives (eg CSI / culture / team building etc).

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Additional Role Dimensions:

• Business accountability: Be fully immersed and gain an understanding of the client business as well as the competitor activity.

• Internal relationships: Establish strong relationship with all internal stakeholders.

• Be an adaptable team player.

• External relationship: You understand the supportive role you play for your CD and bring pro-active ideas and concerns to your CD’s attention for them to take up with our clients.

• Working environment: Demonstrate a collaborative attitude with care and passion across work and beyond.

• Advertising hunger: You are actively looking for and at cool advertising ideas, and often immerse yourself in other work (global and local) that compel people to love brands and buy from them.

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Experience Required:

• 3 -5 years’ experience as an Art Director in the Advertising industry.

• An in-depth understanding of the key departments, processes and structures within an Advertising Agency.

• Good knowledge of media landscape (traditional - TTL, ATL & BTL & digital) Illustrator.

• Bonus would be a working knowledge of other platforms that help an art director bring ideas to life: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Dimension, Mid journey etc.

• Experienced in working with internal team and senior clients across multiple stakeholders.

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Qualification Required:

• Art Direction tertiary qualification

• Graphic design tertiary qualification

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Personal Qualities required:

At M&C you will need to:

• The courage to push boundaries and push for excellent work.

• Communicate effectively to clients and internal teams.

• Be assertive & have no tolerance attitude for the ordinary.

• Be solutions orientated across all multiple stakeholders.

• Be open and have a keenness to work with diverse people.

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Art Director Competencies:

Behavioural Competencies:

• Creative Thinker

• Can-do Attitude

• Proactive Problem-solver

• Independent

• Effective Communicator

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Technical/Functional Competencies:

• Develop and produce creative concepts, campaigns, and functional key visuals that meet the client’s communications objectives and drive business results in response to creative briefs.

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• Excellent Presentation skills.

• Work well under pressure.

• Have a drive to compete at the highest industry levels not only for yourself but for your own portfolio of work.

• Be able to mine true insights and apply them to any given brief.

• Social intelligence

• Conflict management

• Self-management

• Collaborative

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